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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1905
Page
4
An advertisement extols Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as a quick permanent remedy for indigestion and stomach troubles. It claims digestion relief, system buildup, and disease resistance, citing wide physician use and several testimonials. The piece also includes quotes and references to unrelated seasonal items and a joke.
A collage of medicinal testimonials tout Dr King Life Pills Mull s Grape Tonic and DeWitt s Little Early Risers with claims of curing constipation headache and biliousness. Endorsed by various travelers and druggists, the notes mix health pitches with a few quips from Chicago News.
The notice touts Herbine as a cure for indigestion and related ailments with a price of 50e per bottle, sold by H. C. Miller. It also recounts Thomas F. Ryan's use of a clipping bureau after he assumed control of the Equitable, noting a period with no favorable notices and a sharp quip about conceit.
A Pittsburg woman, Annie Hunter, recounts four weeks of illness with typhoid and kidney trouble. After trying salons and doctors, she was saved by Electric Bitters, regaining health and mobility. The ad also touts Bombita the Spanish bullfighter’s retirement with a fortune and jewels.
Fragmentary OCR note cites three reasons for preferring a product, including taste and claimed cures. Names and details are garbled, with references to a one minute con and a medicine for coughs, croup, and children’s use.
A blend of thrift advice on saving money, claims about Chamberlain's remedy and Hindipo kidney cures, and notes on Long Island Railroad electrification spending. Includes Archibald C. Haynes resigning from Equitable Life, criticizing influence to push stock policy.
An advertisement extols Doan's Kidney Pills to maintain amber healthful kidney secretions and ease backache. It includes a testimonial from F. P. Baxter of Jolson City, praising relief after using the product sold by Patton Drug Co. and backed by Foster-Milburn Co. US agents. Also references Union Pacific travel to Portland and Yellowstone trips via J H Lorimer in St. Louis.
Fragmented OCR offers glimpses of a surreal dialogue about water and a half glass dome, a Louisville Courier-Journal note on Lessemer iron prices and furnace spikes, plus scattered mentions of Birmingham iron and Kilton-Gaylord. It touches political chatter from The Herald Washington and a China concession offer, with garbled names and stray phrases.
First and third Tuesdays of each month the Cotton Belt Route sells round trip Homeseekers tickets to points West and Southwest at one fare plus 32 000 stopovers both ways. 21 days return with two daily trains from Memphis, morning and evening, connecting at Texarkana Shreveport Greenville Dallas Fort Worth Corsicana and Waco for all Texas points. Parlor cars on day trains sleepers on night trains chair cars on all trains running through to etus without change. Write for literature descriptive of the country map and timetable to any point.
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