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Newspaper
Elkhart Observer
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1875
Page
3
Elkhart items report Dr Allen twelve spinal meningitis cases. Train and depot events, church meetings, a Mendelssohn Quintette Club concert March 31, and a moving of stores. Traffic, court updates, social events, and neighborhood notices fill a bustling town page.
Missouri and Texas Railway line promotes through routes from Hannibal and St Louis to Houston Texas. It highlights Pullman sleeping cars Westinghouse air brakes and fast trains with connections via Junction City Parsons and Kansas City. The Road’s Land Department offers over one million acres of farming fruit and stock lands on ten year credits with low rates for 1875 colonists.
Advertises subscriptions for the Weekly Observer and lists merchants offering lumber shingles wagon repairs drugs chemicals patent medicines varnishes paints and related items at various street corners. Mentions I Bucklen & Son as suppliers and Dr King s New Discovery for consumption. Notes Mrs Jaycox keeping up advertising to boost patrons.
The notice promotes reduced price chromes for premiums and highlights Johnsons Anodyne Liniment as a universal remedy. It proclaims Sheri dan’s Cavalry Condition powders money back and reports Wilson Sewing Machine Company expansion to Chile with global agencies and free delivery from Cleveland.
The passage invokes Charles Lamb’s denouncement of spirits and praises Dr Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters as a superior tonic that contains no alcohol, framed as a cure all. It contrasts with alcohol based tonics and presents the product as the best non alcoholic option.
Over fifty years since its invention Johnsons Anodyne Liniment gained universal popularity across all classes. The ad warns against pills with antimony quinine and calomel and recommends Parsons Purgative or Anti-Billious Pills as safer, milder alternatives.
The liver cleanses the blood and Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery with Pleasant Purgative Pellets is advertised to cure humors from scrofula to eruptions. It claims to renovate tainted systems, reduce enlarged glands and tumors, and heal ulcers with persistent use. Also promotes Willson Shuttle Sewing Machine as the best for home use. offers home delivery from Cleveland, Ohio, branch.
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