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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1898
Page
4
The notice surveys chronic catarrh as a common ailment affecting many organs and promotes Peruna as a cure for catarrh anywhere. It also advertises Dr Hartman’s Winter Catarrh book, Dr Bell’s Pine Tar Honey, Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, and Smith’s Sure Kidney Cure, with testimonials and local distributor details.
An old advertisement warns buyers against substitutes and urges checking the bottle for an unopened seal, the testimonial image of Good Ola Granny Metenif, and the H. & Southerland Medicine Co. label from Pountain Park Padnean, Ky.
The excerpt lists varied facts from early painting methods using compressed air to historical figures and events. It notes Tron near Irontom Missouri in 1816, St. Louis population around 150000 forty years ago, a New York post office profit of 4900000 in 1897, and other data on Spain Hawaii labor Japanese, Cincinnati water works cost 500000, and Greece buying guna then ordering 10000 plows. It also mentions coal and iron ore in Arkansas Hogmanay in Scotland and large wheat yields in Kansas. The latter part advertises Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey as a cough remedy.
A collage of late 19th century ads for Households care products, medicines, and tonics. Includes notices offering rewards for catarrh cures, testimonials for Hall’s Catarrh Cure, West & Truax and Walding firms as Toledo druggists, and claims for Dr Cody’s Condition Powders, Casearets Candy Cathartic, and Chamberlain's Eye and Skin Ointment.
In effect December 5 1897 the Southern Railway shows trains between Bristol Knoxville Chattanooga and New York with Pullman service and sleeping cars. It lists No 2 No 6 No 1 and No 12 routes via Nashville Washington and Cincinnati, with connections at various towns including Bristol Chattanooga Asheville Knoxville and Elizabethton. Special notes include through sleepers and drawing room cars between Chattanooga New York and connections west to Cincinnati and Illinois.
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