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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1908
Page
4
A loaded reminiscence on Alabama’s dry era describing economic decline in Mobile and the Deep South. The author vents frustration over prohibition wrecking business, deterring immigration, and harming farms and dairies while praising Mobile’s port and tourism access. The piece contrasts northern settlers with local resistance and laments lost opportunities and moonshiner culture.
An old style advertisement touts Dr. King's New Life Bills with a money back guarantee. It features garbled product claims about relieving stomach issues and constipation and promises cheerful refunds at unspecified stores.
A review of Mobile school funding pressures and a protest by Alabama women against prohibition interference moves amid accounts of a Mobile scene. The text notes a probate sale on May 15 1908 in New Haven Indiana and a Journal Gazette want ad rate of 1/20 a word.
Prominent architect Norman Fr. Coulter of Delbert Building San Francisco says Electric Bitters is good for everybody. It corrects stomach liver and kidney issues and builds up the system. touted as the best spring medicine and blood purifier by Dreier Br. drug store in Journal-Gazette ads.
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