Dr Fenner’s Improved Cough Honey Ad
Entices readers with a claim to cure a cough or cold in the head in one hour. Encourages trying a sample bottle at a low price. Mentions practical businesslike tone and practical remedies.
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1881
Page
5
Entices readers with a claim to cure a cough or cold in the head in one hour. Encourages trying a sample bottle at a low price. Mentions practical businesslike tone and practical remedies.
A fragmentary notice lists lumber stock such as common boards joists and timber with measurements 14 144 and 2 inches and lengths up to 18 ft. Also mentioned are flour feed hides wool coal saddlery and miscellaneous goods in a dense retail catalog style.
A bold medical ad proclaims Shilohs Cough Remedy as the most successful cure for coughs croup bronchitis and even consumption. It claims guaranteed satisfaction since discovery and offers 10c 50c and 1dollar pricing. Also promotes Shilohs Porous Plaster for sore lungs chest or back aches with 25 cent price.
An old advertisement pitches Shilohs Vitalizer as a universal cure for indigestion constipation dizziness loss of appetite and catarrh with a nasal injector included. It also touts Ashton Dairy Salt and Burrell Bros groceries teas coffees and imported Formosa tea plus roasted coffees at lower prices.
An old advertisement extols Dr Kina's New Discovery as a life extending cure for coughs colds bronchitis asthma hoarseness croup and all throat chest or lung ailments. Trial bottles cost ten cents and regular size one dollar, sold by Emmert & Burrell.
Fresh and cheap candy sale listed at Burrell Bros. Cream mixed candy and stick candy advertised at 36c per pound. Deal highlights economical confections for shoppers seeking value.
At Novelty Iron Works on Spring street between Walnut and Galena Avenue fifty tons of old iron for which the highest market price in cash will be paid Morean Bros Proprietors.
Ad promises world beating low prices and good goods with extra corn syrup at 45 cents a gallon. C O D Store promotes affordable household items and direct delivery.
Two car loads deliver choice apple varieties Greening Spitzenburg Spy Baldwin King Seek no further Steel s Red and more. Leave your order at our usual low BurRrell Bros prices and selection.
The ad praises Electric Bitters as the perfect cure for exhausted and enfeebled constitutions and kidney and urinary complaints. It claims rapid, universal effectiveness, urging readers not to despair and noting a 50 cent price from Emmert and Burrell.
An 1877 Ohio area letter touts Dr Fenner's Blood and Liver Memosy and Dr Fenner's Improved Cough Honey for quick reliefs. It asks for pricing on a half dozen bottles and lists other products like Dr Fenner's Golden Relief and St Vitus Dance Specific. Emmert & Burrell advertise sale and refer to another column.
A skilled No. 1 hand in general blacksmithing is sought, married or single, with good wages for a reliable worker. Inquiries may be made at Burchard & Scott's in Freeport or by letter addressed to Gro E Studebaker Florence Station Stephenson Co. at once.
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