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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1897
Page
8
The advertisement proclaims Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral as the standard family remedy for colds coughs and lung diseases. It stresses it is a full strength treatment not a palliative and sold in large bottles for households at higher cost but with better cures.
Georgia lawmakers pass Knowles library measure creating a five member state library commission and approve a $1,000 appropriation for Cave Springs asylum boiler room. House and Senate wrestle with Baldwin Jefferson contests and convict bill as lawmakers adjourn for Thanksgiving week and resume with renewed questions.
An old notice promotes Chamberlain Cough Remedy as a preventive and cure for coughs and colds to avoid pneumonia. It claims wide use and reliability, recommending 25 and 60 cent sizes sold by druggists. Also mentions state capitol welcomes, a joint committee, and a Confederate veterans’ pension bill increasing funding, with a brief senate session note.
The Jackson Argus presents a paid appeal by New York chemist T. A. Slocum claiming a reliable cure for consumption and bronchial diseases. He offers three free bottles of his New Discoveries to afflicted readers who write to 98 Pine Street, New York.
In Atlanta on November 29 the Georgia legislature welcomed Hon. James Wilson and Dr. J L M Curry. Wilson spoke about agriculture as a science and Curry advocated intellectual development in a joint session. Wilson’s address ran under 80 minutes, Curry’s nearly twice as long.
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