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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1898
Page
6
A cluster of items notes women's domestic duties and health remedies then shifts to Hobson family politics and populist talk in Alabama. The column references Bradfield's Female Regulator for menstrual disorders and praises De Witt's Little Early Risers for constipation and headaches.
A humorous anecdote recalls Samuel Coleridge astride a horse on a Dur ham turnpike where a tailor joke prompts witty talk. The piece then touts De Witt’s Little Early Risers and a Cough Cure from Dr. W L Carmichael as reliable remedies.
Bold claim advertises Botanic Blood Balm as the cure for blood and skin diseases. It cites a testimonial from Mrs. S. M. Wilson of Iron Mountain Texas and offers the product through Blood Balm Co. in Atlanta Georgia at one dollar per large bottle.
An advertisement extols De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve as the great pile cure and warns against substitutes for piles sores and burns. Dr W L Carmichael emphasizes honesty in an era of substitutes.
Advertisement for Bucklens Arnica Salve touting its use for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, rashes, fever sores, chapped hands, and skin eruptions. Claims a money back guarantee and 25 cents per box with sales by all druggists. Describes life changing opportunity promoted with a brass band.
In Alabama a young man enlisted after proving his fighting prowess despite being unable to read or write English. When shown a newspaper, he could not read, and when asked to write he failed, yet he insisted fighters were needed, not processors, and he was enthusiastically accepted.
In March 1862 William R. Shafter, then a major in the Nineteenth Michigan, was captured with his foraging expedition by Wheeler’s cavalry and later sent to Libby prison in Richmond for six weeks. General Shafter later praised General Wheeler as a strategist and fighter.
A Shelby, North Carolina report claims Mrs. Luther Lutz suffered seven years from a wasting illness and coughing fits before purchasing Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption. After two bottles she was cured and slept through the night. The firm advertises free samples at drug stores with guaranteed results.
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