Consumption Cure on Sale in Local Advert
Fragmentary ad text signals a claimed cough cure for consumption selling in local market with price details. The legibility is poor but indicates a patent remedy claim and price.
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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1894
Page
8
Fragmentary ad text signals a claimed cough cure for consumption selling in local market with price details. The legibility is poor but indicates a patent remedy claim and price.
Knowledge cites Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative that cleanses the system and relieves cold headaches fevers and constipation. It claims to act on the kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them and notes it is sold by druggists in 60c and 1 bottles, manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Co.
Notes recount windmills burning from friction and new safety measures at modern mills. The piece then tells of Hengrave Hall near Bury St Edmunds selling for over 450000 dollars and a tale of Penelope of Earl Rivers’ lineage having three suitors Sir George Trenchard Sir John Gage and Sir William Hervey with marriage outcomes across generations.
A historical note describes a Japanese wedding as a melancholy chair ritual where the bride mourns her marriage, shrieks repeatedly before the ceremony, is veiled, then carried to the groom’s house in a sedan chair. Arrival marks marriage, with lavish entertainment and congratulations afterward.
An advertisement claims a common weed extract cures scrofula to pimples with over eleven hundred cases and two failures. It cites two hundred certificates near Boston and promises relief from first bottle, with specific dosing and a note to read the label and send for a book.
Major William Sully Beebe asserts vast ancient ruins lie near Lake Titicaca on the Bolivia Peru border, with stonework and architecture on temples and cities. He notes the high 14 000 foot altitude and climate once supported a larger population, hinting at a different past. The piece also surveys loud animals noting elephants and gorillas as exceptionally vocal.
The article argues vigor comes from health and nerve balance, not bulk. It touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a leading tonic endorsed by physicians, claiming it strengthens digestion sleep and energy, and helps overcome malaria rheumatism kidney issues and digestive troubles.
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A local settler spans the Hed River with a three mile long straw causeway about five feet high wide for two teams. Built of alternating grass and sand layers, it costs a small toll and is rebuilt each season after high water. An iron bridge attempt failed quickly.
The piece quotes a New York Press remark on language clarity menacing humor over a sparmaker’s reply and notes Persian hawking culture. It includes a brief ad for Brows’s Bronchial Trachea Remedies and a stray reader’s remark on respect and thinking.
A curious clipping blends a telegrahic message scene with dubious patent medicine pitches. It mentions Dr Isaac Thompson knee water and Kline nerve remedies, plus humorous gossip about a ball and a man hiring a dress suit. The tone resembles a late 19th or early 20th century paper’s eclectic ads and snippets.
An ad from F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo offers one hundred dollars for any deafness case caused by catarrh not cured by Hall’s Cure. It attributes deafness to inflammation of the mucous lining of the auditory tube and claims restoration of tube function will restore hearing. The piece notes sales through druggists at 75 cents and invites readers to request circulars.
A resident confronts a burglar caught inside his house exclaiming the property is in his wife's name while the thief pockets silver spoons. The scene unfolds with the intruder insisting the home belongs to him.
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