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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1894
Page
7
A garbled OCR montage covers a mix of abolition era rhetoric, balloon experiments by Mallet and Lan, patent medicine testimonials for Dr Ball’s Court Syrup and Hall’s Catarrh Cure, and assorted anecdotes about chimney jokes, Rheumatism remedies, and a Russo German commercial treaty.
A letter to Oliver Wendell Holmes presents four questions about public life and success. Holmes replies in his own hand noting safe theater attendance, the Bible Shakespeare and a dictionary as top books, real success as sustained, useful work, and smoking as harmful to sight nerves and will.
The Land of Promise in the West is rich yet malaria plagued for emigrants and travelers in unprotected areas. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is urged as protection against exposure, digestive ills, and nervous or rheumatic symptoms. Testimonials praise Brown’s Bronchial Troches. freight and U P Railway agents promote pamphlets. A closing note says forgiveness without forgetting is nobler than forgiveness alone.
A fragmented line notes coffee may rise while corn remains plentiful at cross roads. It quips that a shoemaker suffers when customers cannot pay. It also suggests Beecham's Pills for liver and other organ issues.
The text promotes contacting Camp Floyd District via The Road Publishing Co. for a pamphlet and maps, mentions two Union Pacific agents in Denver and Burley, and offers a sample copy of The Road with two cent stamps. It also references Shilohs Consumption Cure and Hanson’s Made Corn Salve with prices and promises refunds, plus a quip about a man who loses being accused of not playing fair.
A historical excerpt discusses how Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is marketed and its perceived effects, noting claims of health benefits and the product's selling points in its era of promotion. The text highlights both the medicine’s alleged action and the advertising emphasis.
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