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Newspaper
Decatur Weekly News
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1900
Page
2
The page fragment shows a scolding dialogue about photography and a casual reference to a woman named Curmidge in conversation with Mrs Marcipe. It also includes an old advertisement for White's Cream Vermifuge promising health benefits for children and a worm treatment price of 25 cents sold by W. H. Long.
A Memphis bound woman with a hungry child arrives at a Stevenson hotel. An engineer from the Southern Railway buys them supper and a room, then arranges a country ride for the party, leaving them happier the next morning.
An old newspaper ad for Botanic Blood Balm promises quick relief for chronic skin and mucous issues. It claims deep seated poisons, offers a free trial bottle, and lists prices for single and full course bottles with directions and medical advice from druggists.
Goshen resident Tewis Ackerwan endorses DeWitts's Little Early Risers noting they regularly cleanse and invigorate the liver and provide relief. The product is advertised as ripening and improving daily rites. May 25.
A fragment on beauty equating health with beauty and stating few women are beautiful due to lack of wealth. It argues cosmetics cannot create true attractiveness and hints at a method to achieve a fair face and a well-rounded figure.
A jumble of old time medical quackery and a deafness cure pitch mixed with legal notice tone and a cartoonish Irish dialogue. The fragment mentions a patent remedy for feminine issues and a claim about deafness cured by constitutional treatment, ending with a comic exchange about a deceased man and a drink.
A note on broader Southern literature beyond fiction highlights work in many fields. For the Southern Students Conference in Asheville, NC, June 15 25 1900, Southern Railway offers round trip tickets from all lines to Asheville at a special rate. Tickets available June 13 14 15 with return by June 18 1900.
Mrs Harriet Evans of Hinsdale writes she never fails to relieve her children from croup at once with One Minute Cough Cure. She says it quickly cures coughs colds grippe and all throat and lung diseases. Sold by W E H Long.
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