Lydia E Pinkham remedy and historic critics
The article praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a universal cure for women's ills, citing Mrs Bertha Muff's testimony of recovery after long suffering and Pinkham's guidance. It includes historical notes on Francisque Sarcey and a Dickens anecdote, framing medical remedies and literary criticism in a period voice.
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Wester Plains
Ana Neros
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Bertha Muff
N.C. St. Louisiana
Gou
Muff
Four Lines of Bathroom Fixtures Sold in Bulk
Local hardware store advertised four full lines of bath tubs bowls and sinks for sale. The listing highlights complete bathroom sets available for immediate pickup or delivery and notes prices and sizes vary by model.
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Asserican
Aurora
Reading Crane & Hoist
Reading
Penn
Austin
West Sn
Boone News Briefs From The Democrat Era
News notes from Meat Camp to Valle Crucis include John S. Norris's fatal sugar tree fall, a Boone fiddlers convention on the 22nd, George Robbins finishing a hotel at Shull’s Mills, and Valle Crucis school to be built with $8,000 concrete blocks. The Boone and Blowing Rock turnpike pays 5 percent annual dividend. Rev E F Jones returns to Zionville. Jerre Creen and Nellie Watson wed at Virgil. weather cool with potential damage and a kidney remedy ad sparingly placed amid church politics on prohibition and whiskey.
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John S. Norris
Boone
George Robbins
Shull’s Mills
Valle Crusse
Jerre Creen
Nellie Watson
Virgil
E. F. Jones
Washington
Zionville
Blowing Rock
Turnpike
Chinese laundry tickets tied to gods tale
A clipping notes the Chinese laundry system of ticketing soiled clothes uses gods and objects as labels. Each week the laundryman prints duplicate checks with a god name such as Sun or Moon and a number, interleaving the worker’s name Wong Lee. Then it shifts to brief historical mentions and jokes about the Tenure of Office Act and humorous quips from various papers.
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Wong Lee
Harper's Weekly
Prevaricating papers and a cyclone tall tale
A quote ridicules newspaper men who report a cyclone with hyperbolic feats across states. It claims the storm upturned a Mississippi well and a Wisconsin cellar, shifted Nebraska lines, emptied a whiskey barrel, and even altered days and people from Ohio to Missouri.
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Mississippi
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Iowa
Ohio
West
Texas
Illinois
Kansas
Michigan
Dakota
Missouri
Registration Notice for Prohibition and Good Road Election
Move the cough and heals unas. Have you registered for the Prohibition and Good Road Election. D. E. Whitener Registrar for South Hickory. Books at Witherspoon Bros. Store. Book will close on May 16. Not a new registration.
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D. E. Whitener
South Hickory
Witherspoon Bro
Prohibition and Good Roads Election Details
H E McComb registrar for North Hickory will be at City Hall on Saturdays May 3 7 and 16 and on other days at the Hickory Real Estate and Insurance Co or at home Books close May 16 This is not a new registration Also a medical note notes Dean's ointment for eczema relief claiming safety for children and wide druggist availability A reader questions Georgia governor race coverage editor replies the paper remains neutral.
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H.E. McComb
North Hickory
City Hall
Hickory Real Estate and Insurance Co
Kidney health claims and quack remedies appear
A mixture of patent medicine pitches and light social notes fills the page. Foley’s Kidney Remedy and Urino Laxative are advertised with claims of curing kidney issues and chronic constipation, while Little Cascasweet is touted for soothing babies. A Cleveland man seeks a divorce over a distant wife, a fashion joke about shirt waists appears, and political chatter links Bryan’s nomination to Taft’s victory as the World weighs in.
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Foley
W. S. Martin & Co
Bryan
Taft
New York World
Judge Parker
Till and fair and the doctors warning phrase
A doctor remarks that being till and fair implies predisposition to rheumatism and warns against assuming immunity if short and dark, suggesting predisposition to nervous disorders. The speaker cautions readers not to expect escape from these notions.
Dysentery remedy boosts town trust in cure
An honored citizen of Walcot, Vermont credits Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for a rapid cure after a severe dysentery attack. The druggist M J Leach touts the medicine and W S Martin & Co sells it. Separately South Orange New Jersey imposes a dog bark curfew with clocks mentioned. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea promoted by Menzies Drug Co as a tonic with 35 cents price.
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Chamberlain
M. J. Leach
Truggist
Walcot
W. S. Martin & Co
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A. F. Har Aes
Good-Roads Machinery Contractors
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N. C
Austin. Western Co. Ltd
Chicago
the Hatcher Furniture Co
Hickory, N. C
Boone News
Bright
W. S. Martin
North Carolina
Andrew Towinson
Senate
New York American
Cora
Louisville Cou‘er-Journal
Dean
Atlanta Georgian
Joe Brown
Georgia
Hoke Smith
Edior
Cleveland
C. 1
M. Shuford & W. S. Martin
Scott
South Orange
N. J
Hlollister
Menzies Drug Co
Tention
What Is
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McCoy Moretz McComb Bros
Old Stand
McCoy Moretz
Seena
Witherspoon Bros
Hickory Bakery
Faneuil Hall
Boston
TASS
Childeets
Dr. King
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