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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1879
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR passage references pasture dryness and color changes. It mentions keeping up standards and references Richardas Perfected and Co's Perfecte in relation to market conditions and land management.
The advertisement urges buying Dr Price’s Clean Baking Powder only in cans labeled Steele & Price to ensure genuineness. It promotes Fellows' Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites as a tonic for mental strength, claiming it restores weak minds and supports study.
A stir of cures and consumer offers fills the page. Shiloh’s Vitilizer promises relief for digestion and liver complaints, sold by Emmert & Burrell. Dr Price perfumes and Testecard photos headline the wares alongside pension blanks and land services. Green’s August Flower touted for liver and dyspepsia cures, with Swarts & Stocking and Emmett & Burrell selling remedies. Dr Kine’s New Discovery offers cough and lung relief with ten cent trials at Emmett & Burrell's Drug store. A new two seated carriage is advertised. Flavor extracts from Dr Price weigh cost against quantity.
Water is free yet patent medicines charge a dollar a pint. Kidney-Waort is a dry compound yielding six quarts per package with no poisonous liquor. It is promoted as a nature’s remedy for kidney diseases liver complaint and piles acting as a diuretic cathartic and healing tonic.
Advert reads cash paid for endowment life insurance policies through Wim. Cox, broker, Peoria. The clipping mentions patent medicines and old-time remedies by Dr. Fenner and Skidney-Worthy, with testimonials about Blood and Liver Remedy, Capitol Bitters, and other cures, plus Great Western Dispatch origin for merchandise shipping.
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