Kennedy Medical Discovery Claims Cure of Longstanding Skin Ailments
An advertisement announces Donald Kennedy of Roxbury Massachusetts offering a medicine named Kennedy's Medical Discovery. It claims to cure horrid old sores deep seated ulcers inward tumors and skin diseases over sixty years old and promises a cure for most conditions except thunder humor and cancer. It lists a price of $1.50 and states availability from all druggists in the U S and Canada.
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Kennedy
U. S
Canada
Doliara Rawnard
Hall
Fr. Chenrey& CO
Props
Toledo
I. I. Cheney
Buginesa Transactiona
Weat& Truax
Dr C Gee Wo Chinese Panaceist Extends Practice to Omaha
The pamphlet touts Dr C Gee Wo as a renowned Chinese healer offering distant TreACINE remedies and home consultations. It cites testimonials from Michael Cane and John Bailey praising dramatic recoveries from heart disease consumption and other ailments, claims a 3501.00 reward for duplicating his medicines, and urges direct correspondence to his Omaha office with no intermediaries.
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Omaha
Sud
Christ
Mares Pola
Catipiv
China
Thoreus
Willard
Muchio
Cha
Guttenbere
Chin Wong O
Hobson
Americas
C Cmes
C. Gee Wo
Michael Cane
Union Pacific
Ty Hed
Sie
Chietee
Kwai
John Bailey
Elm Street
Surere
Wiecitv
Tim Nidik
Nicholson
Binuke
North
Lth
Stireet
Maha
Legady
Marketable News on Crops Cattle and Western Trade
Henry Clews notes uncertainty in crop outputs for spring wheat and cotton amid late storms and suspicious data from the Bureau of Agriculture. European harvests improve London tone and Bank of England keeps discount rate. cattle exports show higher value per head. Cudahy to ship 65 cars of canned meats to California. Kansas has 60 million dollars of cattle with ample feed.
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Henry Clews
Bureau of Agriculture
Farmers’ Alliance
London
Bank of England
United States
Bureau of Statistics
Sary
South Omaha
Cudahy Company
California
St Paul Globe
Montana
Montanay
Texas
Dakota
Northwest
Stickney
Chicago
Union Stock van Company
Kansas
Entitled to the Best Remedies and Trade Totals
A parade of old advertisements notes syrups and catarrh cures with Hall’s Catarrh Cure priced at 75 cents. It recounts demographic tallies for Paris and hints at Tutt’s Pills and liver relief, plus a miner’s joke about elephants on yeast powder.
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Candelaria
Cal
Jim
Fat and care for the plump baby theme in health ads
A period piece montage links baby fat to health and beauty, urging care and doctor advice if weight is lacking. It promotes Scott's Emulsion and a free care booklet, then notes English smoke debates and a word-find ad from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co. as well as Thomas Walker's onion display in San Diego.
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Dr. Harter Medicine Co
Thomas Walker
National City
Cal
San Diego
Ereon
St Louis
Baker & 2 &Co
Dorchester
Mass
Castoria Slogan Echoes Through Generations
Vintage advertisement quirk highlights Castoria as a trusted remedy across decades. The jingle traces the product from infancy to motherhood, noting continuous use as a comforting solution for children and a familiar staple for parents.
Birthday customs cited in ancient Genesis text
A note references Genesis chapter types and Pharaoh’s birthday feast. It mentions a dubious medical ad for Dr. Rives Great Nerve Hestowns and a candy-like potion. also an 19th century claim about butter from coconuts replacing cow butter in Germany and Switzerland as cheaper and digestible.
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Rives
Fitesses
Rilme
Arch St. Vhiladelphia
Germany
Switzerland
Proprietary Pellet’s Gentle Liver Pills Offer Relief
The ad touts Dr. Pierce's sugar-coated Pellet’s as a mild laxative and liver pill. It claims they cure and prevent sick headaches, bilious headaches, indigestion, constipation, and stomach disorders with no violence, are purely vegetable, and guaranteed satisfaction or money back.
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Dr. Pierce
August Flower Relieves Longstanding Bilious Ailments
Jesse Barker of Kansas credits August Flower with curing fifteen years of biliousness and stomach pains after other remedies failed. He reports a "new lease of life" and praises the medicine as a benefaction to humanity. Green prints the advertisement in Woodbury NB.
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Warda
Mer
Jesse Barker
Kansas
GG. Green
Sole
Woodbury
Tasteful cod liver oil emulsion sells medicine tradition
An old fashioned claim extols Scott’s Emulsion cod liver oil as milder in taste with no loss of medicine. Scott & Bowne chemists advertise in New York at 132 South 6th Avenue and state all druggists carry Scott’s Emulsion priced widely.
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Scott & Bowne
South Fifth Avenue
New York
Scott
South 6Th Avenue
Shiloh’s Cure Promoted with Free Sample Distribution
A historic claim promotes Shiloh’s Cure as unmatched in medical history. Druggists may sell with a positive guarantee and a free sample be sent to every US and Canada home. It promises relief for coughs sore throats bronchitis croup and whooping cough and offers Shiloh’s Porous Plaster for sore lungs or back.
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United States
Canada
Shiloh
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Donald Kennedy
Roxbury, Mass
DR. C. Gee Wo
Paris
England
Troy
W. H. Tutt
Tutt
Lutt
Gaby
Castoria
Miss
Pitovember
Kins
Shilgh
Chininggisie
Jones
Binghamton
Binghamton, N
Sarfield
Jia An
PanasysTania
Agriultural Works
York
Parqchar
Song
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Parquhae & CO. Xorh. Ta
St. Jacobs
T. C. Dodd
ST. Jacobs Oil
Ailee
Ritchey
Taine
Louis Bagger
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