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Newspaper
Ireton Clipper
Location
Ireton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1891
Page
5
A collage of testimonials and gimmicks touts Chamberlain and De Witt’s patent medicines. Claims cover cough remedies for croup, blood cleansers, laxatives, and tonics. Advertisements promote magnetic keyhole pluggers, glucose factories, and the Lick telescope, while local druggists Hoffman & Co endorse various cures and guarantees.
An 19th century advertisement touts a salve said to cure cuts, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and skin eruptions with piles guaranteed or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box and sold by C B Hoffman & Co.
An old advertisement touts Shiloh’s Vita Jizer as a cure for indigestion constipation dizziness loss of appetite and yellow skin. The claim is attributed to C F Hoffman and Co with promotional language and product branding.
A fragment from the Brooklyn Eagle quotes Rev. Geo. H. Thayer of Bourbon Indiana praising SHILOH's CONSUMPTION cures, with a brief, comic exchange about baseball experience involving Mike Caustique and Migs Caustique. The text mentions airport and home run notions, reflecting eclectic 19th century newspaper flavor.
The passage asserts global living conditions with large numbers clothed or naked and describes housing and shelter coverage. It touts De Witt's Little Early Risers as a cure for perfect health, attributing claims to O F Hoffman & Co.
A collage of quotations and notes on scenes at Jackson's Crossing in La and Indianapolis, an Arctic town audience reaction, plus a Detroit Free Press remark on a new plant breed and an advertisement for De Witt's Early Risers. An old physician offers a free recipe for curing various respiratory ailments by mail from Rochester, New York.
At the 1889 Paris Universal Exposition the Wheeler & Wilson sewing machines won the Grand Prize as the best in show. France awarded Nathaniel Wheeler the Legion of Honor for the achievement and promoted the No 9 and No 13 models as the world’s best for home and manufacturing use. Agents sought nationwide.
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