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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1879
Page
5
An old advertisement columns claim remedies from common plants rival Hop Bitters and touts testimonials across all social ranks. Also lists sale items: sugar, coffee, prunes, dried berries, oatmeal, and coffee at Burrell Bros with promotional prices.
A biscuit made with Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder is hailed as the queen of the oven being light white and enjoyable. The ad copy then quips that after eating such biscuits no man would contemplate suicide or grumble when his wife asks for money.
An advertisement touts Wid ney-Wort as a dry vegetable compound effective for liver and kidney ailments. Each package yields six quarts of medicine prepared in pure water with no poisonous liquors.
Dr Kixe's New Discovery touted as unrivaled for consumption and throat lung diseases. Promoted by physicians and medical journals, with clergy and press praising it. Trial bottle ten cents, regular bottle one dollar, sold by Emmert & Burrell in Freeport, Illinois.
An advertisement extols the liver as central to health and links dyspepsia and stomach issues to liver trouble. It claims Green's August Flower cures these ailments and promises sample bottles for 10 cents. It urges purchase through Swarts & Stocking across Western towns and notes three doses prove efficacy.
An 1878 advertisement notes Rev George H Thayer and a Christian minister credit Shilohs Consumption Cure with saving their lives. The claim cites the medicine’s effectiveness for lung diseases and mentions Drs Matchett and France of Bourbon MP and sellers Emmert & Burrell.
An advertisement promises relief from dyspepsia liver complaints constipation sour stomach and general debility with SirLot's ViraLizer free if it does not cure or relieve the user at no cost at Emmert & Burrell. It also promotes SITILOIT's Porous Plaster for lame back side or chest at 25 cents sold by Emmert & Burveil.
Households familiar with Dr Price's Special Flavoring Extracts should reject inferior blends sold as flavoring extracts that smell like turpentine. Dr Price's extracts deliver the taste and odor of fresh fruits.
Butter-making in July and August can be as successful as in June using the Gilt-Edge Butter Maker. The device halves churning time and increases production by 6 to 10 percent. Storekeepers pay scents a pound extra for butter produced with it. Sold by druggists grocers and general storekeepers. Send stamp for hints to Butter-Makers. Address Butter Improvement Co Buffalo NY.
A new two seated open carriage with pole and shafts is available. For particulars contact W. P. Emmert or Emmert & Burrell at 181f.
This article explains that solid gold watches waste precious metal for engraving and strength, proposing James Ross patent gold watch cases using a two gold plate and nickel core. The process yields solidly strong cases at reduced cost and allows rich engraving and enamelling.
Clergymen lawyers physicians and all brain workers may find Dr Price s Floral Riches Cologne refreshing A handkerchief wetted with it applied to the face pleases the sense of smell and stimulates circulation Bursting butter issues are avoided by the Perfected Butter Color from Wells Richardson Co Burlington VI with no perceptible taste or color and praised at fairs this year
Advertises Widhey-Wort as a remedy that torpid liver and kidneys poison the blood, promising revision of failing organs and a cleansing effect on the body.
Wanted old machine parts and Treavy cast iron. Highest cash price paid for same delivered at our foundry 22-4W. I A St Tiles & Co.
A notice announces Mrs Hay's house on Webster Street for rent and directs inquiries to Manager Bollinger next door. The ad promotes Kidney-Wort a new medicine claiming six quarts per package and double savings versus liquid preparations, marketed as a cure for kidney and liver diseases.
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