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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1909
Page
8
Correspondents recount visits and gatherings across Brooks Woolsey Fayetteville and Union Grove with names of Mrs R L Kerlin Miss Mittie Ballard Miss Lizzie Hill and others. The column also advertises DeWitt s Kidney and Bladder Pills with a Chicago firm offer and druggist availability.
The local column notes a singing at The Rock with good attendance led by Sandy Creek residents. Several residents visit family, including Emily Ellerson of Dundee and J A Thompson near Bethany. Miscellany mentions Luther Ellerson, Ernest Walker, and school scholarship offer from Robert J Sherlock in New York City.
Lula Whitlock visits son J B Whitlock while townsfolk praise a Rock singing event. J W Newon and wife, C A Adams and family, and E B Jackson spend weekends in nearby Atlanta Palmetto. Charles Russell and J Q Landrum appear in town as Cora Fambrough visits Lizzie Chandler.
Bert R Leas of Cheny Washington faced a desperate lung trouble after a failed Spokane specialist and California visit. He finally used Dr Kings New Discovery, which cured him and now others praise its power for lung trouble bronchitis cough and cold asthma croup and whooping cough. 50c and 1.00 per bottle Fayettville Drug Co guarantees trial bottle free.
A Gainesville Herald piece urges residents to support local printers and businesses, denouncing out of town inquirers for money, delays, and inferior work. It argues home shops provide better value, faster service, and stronger town loyalty, noting Atlanta suppliers often ship later and at higher cost.
A vintage advertisement promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a safe laxative for children and adults. It claims better digestion reduces illness, touts a free trial bottle by mail, and provides the Monticello Illinois address for contact. The copy emphasizes no gropping effects and broad digestive benefits.
The piece mixes endorsements for Electric Bitters promising beauty and vitality, detailing benefits for stomach liver kidneys and skin. It also includes a quip about engagement with slang, a note on De Witt’s Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve, and a Parisigaro dinner joke about Louis XIV.
Advertised salve claims to heal cuts corns burns boils ulcers eczema and more. It touts Fay etteville Drug Co. as a seller and notes 25 cents price. Cottonseed oil described as pure vegetable oil from cotton seed, asserting chemical purity and high standing among food products.
A user friendly ad style note extols Quaker Oats griddle cakes as a tasty hearty food for strength and vigor. It includes an at home recipe with oats flour salt soda sour milk eggs butter and basic steps to soak mix and cook griddle cakes.
The text argues you must eat a sufficient amount of wholesome food and digest it thoroughly to gain strength. If digestion fails, use aid like Kodol to help the stomach. When the stomach is weak, give it rest and let Kodol perform digestion.
A bold guarantee promises a refund to customers who complete a full dollar bottle of Kodol with no perceived benefit. The offer covers only large bottles, one per family, and is backed by the manufacturer I. C. DeWitt & Co. in Chicago, with sale through all druggists.
A shipyard laborer, unsure with a two foot rule, improvises a plate size as the rule plus two thumbs, a brick and tile fragment, a palm and arm span. The anecdote appears in the Omaha World-Herald. The piece contrasts waste with thrift, arguing that true economy includes avoiding waste of water, gas, and usable materials.
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