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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1905
Page
4
An array of medical ads claim Kodol Dyspepsia Care digests meals and relieves stomach trouble, with testimonials from doctors and patients. Other promos tout One Minute Cough Care, DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, and Dr Thomas Electric Oil, highlighting safety, gentle effect, and quick relief for ailments from indigestion to burns and bruises.
A dense OCR of a Southern Railway timetable outlines numerous routes and sleeping car connections. It lists trains between Bristol and cities like Memphis, New Orleans, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, noting Pullman services and connecting lines to Jacksonville, Birmingham, and Charleston.
Advice urges avoiding excess care for infants during heat and promoting castor oil as the base treatment for bowel troubles. Recommends Chamberlain's Colic Cholera Oil Diarrhoea Remedy followed by another castor oil dose, claiming strong success and urging ready availability from TL. G. Miller. Also mentions Long Island Railroad equipment spending, a medical testimonial to King’s New Life Pills, and a humorous marriage remark from Puck.
Mary J. Walters of Columbus Ohio credits Electric Bitters with curing her after months of fever and ague nerve distress sleeplessness and weak stomach endured due to ineffective medicines. She reports quick relief and complete recovery. Guaranteed at H C Millers for five cents.
Johnson City readers share relief from chronic back pain after using Dean's Kidney Pills from Foster-Milburn Co. and sold by local dealers. Mr. T. B. Hilbert of Sells & Hilbert testifies to swift improvement and cure. Also promotes Chamberlain's Colic Diarrhea Remedy and Union Pacific travel offers to the Lewis and Clark Exposition with details on routes and dates.
On the first and third Tuesdays each month the Cotton Belt Route offers round trip Homeseekers tickets to West and Southwest points at over fare plus 2 dollars. Tickets include stopovers both ways with a 21 day return limit. Daily trains are limited, morning and evening, with connections at Texarkana Shreveport Greenville Dallas Fort Worth Corsicana and Waco for Texas points. Parlor cars on day trains sleepers on night trains and chair cars on all trains. Roping through to Texas without change. Literature including map and timetable available.
An OCR fragment shows druggists tout Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as superior to others. It mentions Marlow divorce and other ad copy for Kodol and Bocklen's Salve. Health product claims emphasize bowel complaints, digestion, and relief for ulcers and skin ailments with local druggists like A.C. Millers and Whitmer referenced.
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