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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1887
Page
7
A dialogue mocks patent medicines and praises Dr. Bigelow's Positive Cure while warning against imitations and unscrupulous druggists. The exchange shifts to politics, noting General Gresham, John Sherman, and Benjamin Harrison as capable carriers of New York and Indiana in the 1888 election.
The notice touts a salve claimed to cure cuts sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and skin eruptions and piles with a money back guarantee. Sold by Colby Scott with price 25 cents per box. Robert Bonner once paid a New York paper $3000 for an ad and tracked 4000 letters, arguing some businessmen can do better without advertising.
Advertiser touts Restorative Nervine as superior treatment for nervous brain and gland ailments. Claims include relief for headaches dizziness sleeplessness dyspepsia weak lungs biliousness irregularities sterility and impotence with a free trial bottle at N G Woodwards Drug Store.
Dr E Y King leads a rare operation on 70 year old Mrs Artridge Carr sister of the late Rev Franklin Marriott of Toledo to cure black erysipelas. Assisting doctors include Dr James Butler and Drs Hall Oatley Williams. The patient is improving and the procedure may extend life. A trophy of the skill will be photographed.
An advertisement touts Dr Miles Restorative Nervine as a cure for worry overwork sleeplessness headaches neuralgia and nervous prostration claiming it cures effects of terror excitement fear and other nervous disorders sold by N G Woodward with a note about selecting small trees for transplant.
Retired physician in Rochester New York notes a vegetable remedy said to cure consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and lung ailments and nervous debility He offers to mail the recipe in German French or English with directions free of charge upon request to W A Noyes 149 Powers Block Rochester N Y by return mail with a stamp
Daniel Webster, fond of salmon, faces a boastful man at table who claims wisdom. Webster replies with a quiet retort, asking if all good things are made for little, foolish men.
Dr King s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds will be given away for a limited time to prove its curative powers. All sufferers from coughs colds consumption asthma bronchitis or throat chest or lung affections are invited to call at Colby and Secow s Drug Store and receive a free bottle with large bottles priced at 14.
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