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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1888
Page
9
The ad touts Dr Greene's Nervara Nerve Tonic as a vegetable medicine to restore nerve power and vitality for women plagued by nervousness weakness and exhaustion. It claims universal cure for cramps insomnia depression and many ailments and offers free consultation at 35 W 14th Street New York.
The narrative tours Marrakech describing walled streets, a bustling Friday market outside Bab Dakala, and vivid scenes of Moors buying and selling. It notes the Sultan’s quarters, the commercial maze, and vast imports from Europe including linen, handkerchiefs, perfumes, candles, beads, and tea.
The article argues that millions are spent on dentifrices and dentists, much of it unavoidable. It claims after the age of reason most people should not continue fresh, and that common salt is all that is needed with no harmful tooth powder. It asserts salt as a simple, efficacious alternative.
A New York Times item describes using a fool’s tooth-pick quill to retard enamel decay after filing. The crude method contrasts with safer alternatives like soft wood slivers or thread.
A step by step guide to desensitize a canary to a finger through cage wires, test touches at various spots, and gradually invite the bird to perch outside the cage. It emphasizes patience and progressive exposure to doors and room activity.
A promotional note claims Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets cut medical costs by preventing illness. It urges readers to treat mild symptoms cheaply at a druggist for twenty five cents, promising relief and happier finances. A brief quip about a Dakota editor upset with a postmaster is included.
A prize of $100,000 is praised but recovery from consumption is deemed more fortunate. The piece credits Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as an unfailing remedy for scrofulous diseases including consumption and touts availability through druggists. It notes oil regions preparing for war with drilling activity described.
A street encounter tells of a woman who was pale and depressed but credits Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription with restoring her health. She urges other women not to wait to seek the remedy, claiming she feels as well as ever. The remark ends with a social quip from Somerville Journal.
The ad touts Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites as superior for rickets marasmus and wasting diseases of children. It cites Dr J M Mann New York praising its rapid flesh and strength gains and includes a local quip about pride after a court-plaster exchange.
A reader letter declares a positive remedy for consumption and claims thousands were cured. The author, T A Slocum M C, offers two free bottles to readers who send express and P O address to 181 Pearl St New York.
An 50 cent ointment claims to cure skin diseases including hives pimplea flesh worms ring worm tetter salt rheum frost feet chilblains itch ivy poison barber's itch scalp head eczema. Distributed by E S Wells Jersey City New Jersey to druggists or by mail.
An advertisement claims scrofula taint in the blood causes consumption and other sores. It promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a purifier and blood builder that cures running sores, boils, neck bunions, and catarrh. A testimonial from Asa Elbel of South Bend Indiana says one bottle aided recovery.
A worker at Augusta, Michigan, claims Brigh's kidney disease damaged him for seven years. After taking Hibward's Rheumatic Syrup, he reports full recovery and praises the medicine. The page also promotes soaps, tonics, and travel ads on the Burlington Route to Cheyenne with through sleeping cars.
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