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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1888
Page
5
The paper slashes yearly prices to 1.00 cash for new and old subscribers, offering a written guarantee papers will discontinue when time paid for expires. The Weekly Recorder, eight pages, promises 30 to 35 columns of reading matter.
A bondician notes potent days and cool nights affect bowls and offers a preventive remedy, citing Biggers Huckleberry Cordial as one option.
A dated advice piece extols the stomach as a best friend when kept in order. It warns against morning smoking or drinking and suggests Green's August Flower for indigestion issues such as heartburn dizziness and upset stomach.
Official returns from Boards of Health show nearly three fourths of deaths from Consumption. The warning emphasizes how a simple cough or cold can start the disease and urges treatment with American Cough and Eemption Cure priced at 25 cents from Dr N. M. Johnson & Co.
The advertisement promotes Pemberton's Liver the Kidney Elixir as the most perfect liver medicine. It claims to regulate bowels purify blood balance the system and cure consumption biliousness dyspepsia fevers chills bad breath and kidney troubles. It targets women with irregularities and change of life and touts a 60 cent bottle price from the Pemberton Medicine Co. of Atlanta Georgia.
Prices and categories for tobacco in Durham are listed amid political activity and planters preparations. Quotations cover smokers stems wrapp ers and wrappers with ranges from common to fancy grades, reflecting market strength.
Mrs Phoebe Chesley of Peterson Clay county Iowa aged 73 cites kidney trouble and lameness for years She says Electric Bitters renewed her youth freed her from pain and enabled her to do housework She thanks the remedy and recommends a bottle 50c and 1 at Blackwall Son drag store
An editorial rails at the unfinished penitentiary as a blight on the state. Ten years of exposure, rotting scaffolds, and unsightly ruin threaten safety and reputation. Roof it now to avert larger costs and restore public trust.
The Wilmington Messenger reports Maj. A. Smith of Johnston is near death from cancer of the stomach after weeks of Bright's disease. He traveled to Richmond seeking relief and is now under care at his daughter's home, wife of Capt. W. H. Green, superintendent of Piedmont Air Line. He remains surrounded by family as friends express deep sympathy.
A notice states that on May 10 R. Penny will sell all dry goods stock at cost to reduce inventory. The ad indicates a wholesale or shop liquidation at the stated time and location.
A Chattanooga reader reports his wife recovered health after using Coca Wine, citing long illness including dyspepsia hysteria constipation and insomnia with neuralgia. A Atlanta doctor endorses Fresh Wine Cees boosting mental clarity under stress and typho malaria related restlessness.
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