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Newspaper
Ireton Clipper
Location
Ireton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1891
Page
5
A disjointed clipping references a summer scene with a man and woman in a lamblock setting, plus a sales pitch for patent medicines from C. F. Hoffman & Co. including De Witt's Sarsaparilla, Shiloh's products, and warnings of illnesses. The text mixes jokes, ads, and literary fragments without a single coherent event.
A compilation of old patent medicine pitches from C F Hoffman Co and O F Hoffman Co. touts Chamberlains Cough Remedy Shilohs Vitalizer De Witt s Little Early Risers and Seilgh s Catarrh Remedy plus general health advice and humorous notes on acting and business. The ads boast safety for children, quick relief for rheumatism and indigestion, and promote various pills tonics and bacon. The tone is promotional with multiple products and prices cited.
An old physician long retired from the prairie claims a vegetable cure for Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and throat and lung ailments. He offers to mail the recipe free of charge in German, French or English with preparation and usage directions to any requester, upon sending a stamped reply to W. A. Noyes, 820 Powers' Block, Rochester, N. Y.
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