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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1840
Page
4
A chanted polemic urges liberty and fiscal reform, blaming Treasury “knaves” and praising an honest yeoman leader. The speaker attacks Jacksonian finance and calls for voters to elect Harrison, promising a staunch, frugal administration and removal of aristocratic influence.
A stylish resident of Nas sau Street New York visits a Bowery thread shop. After two hours sales, she buys one spool and orders delivery. A hand cart deposits the spool at her doorstep for twenty five cents cartage, provoking disbelief among some observers. A German physician touts a tract advising against sleeping alone for nervous women, now in demand. Crabbie notes a lie frets yet cannot bite, while a Quaker questions the helper's compassion.
A company of riders performing in Canandaigua with other horsemanship acts rode off without paying the printer. The incident adds to a string of cash disputes at local exhibitions.
Read the tombstones in the churchyard to learn ambition's end the grave is your bedchamber the earth your pillow corruption your father the worm your mother and kin
An 18th or 19th century discussion on purgation medicine, evaluating which medicines best cleanse and purify the body. The text highlights Brandreth’s Pills as a potential effective option for curing and preventing disease.
H and J BE HOWES relocate a few doors east to the former Bostwick and Putnam space opposite the Post Office on Market Street. They stock a broad assortment of dry goods groceries Queensware hardware and more and promise prices that appeal to customers. December 7, 1889. AQ
Spencer and Rice announce a general assortment of essential market articles available on old terms, each piece in exchange for produce, dated May 25, 1840.
Thirty bushels of sorted mashonnie potatoes offered for seed and sale on March 7 by Spencer Rice. Local notice invites buyers for planting and local market.
Peters Pills promote Peters Vegetable Pills sold since January 1885 with over six million boxes in the United States. Describes ailments addressed and mild action, with prices 25 and 50 cents. lists multiple agents in Logansport and other cities including Lafayette and Indianapolis, dated May 16 1840.
A brief herbal remedy ad claims Rusibacker's Tonic and Anti-Dyspeptic Pills cure dyspepsia by cleansing the stomach and bowels of bile, correcting acidity, relieving constipation, headache, heartburn and flatulence, and suits women and children. Agent: G M Jeaotamay.
Advertises Moffat Life Pills and Phenix Bitters as purifying the body and restoring vigor. Claims cleanse stomach and bowels, kidneys, bladder, liver, and lungs, with broad efficacy for dyspepsia, fever, rheumatism, and many other ailments. Sold by William B. Moffat at 870 Broadway, New York.
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