Advertiser Promises Truthful Patent Medicines
A firm promotes Doctor Piero’s Sword of Health and Favorite Prescription as cures for broad ailments. The ads claim a money back if ineffective, with bottles priced at 1.00 each.
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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1891
Page
2
A firm promotes Doctor Piero’s Sword of Health and Favorite Prescription as cures for broad ailments. The ads claim a money back if ineffective, with bottles priced at 1.00 each.
The item notes Oliver Wexport Homes celebrating his 82nd birthday and recalling college classmates. Balmaceda’s defeat by Congressional forces near Valparaiso is confirmed with heavy casualties cited and uncertainty over Balmaceda’s location. The Mageine plans a 400th Columbus anniversary issue with Enrlio Castelar writing a Spanish life of Columbus. Frederick Waxprinir imported a yacht from England for 877,750 but faced a 84,487 duty. The Indiana Democratic league forms after a reunion, with a joint executive committee and a Jacksons Day meeting in Indianapolis and a Lake Maxinkuckee summer gathering.
Dispatches from Valparaiso report the insurgents seizing the city after a bloodied battle. Balma ceda's government collapsed as congressional forces and naval units defeated loyalists. A provisional Chilean government forms in Santiago as foreign powers seek to protect lives and property.
An official notice from Havairax Nova Scotia states Spain admits Canada products into Cuba and Porto Rico on the same terms as U.S. imports. The reciprocity treaty with the United States and the Spanish West Indies goes into effect Monday, but Canada will enjoy ten months of duty free access.
Aug. 31 dispatches report Balmaceda’s forces defeated across Chile with Balmaceda fleeing. Merchants in Lina say surrender and victory rumors were unauthorized falsehoods. Britain may recognize the new government after Chilean reorganizes, while Balmaceda’s exile is anticipated in France.
The professor forecasts a large storm wave crossing the continent from August 27 to 31, leaving the Pacific Sept 2 and reaching the Atlantic by Sept 6. It will affect the Mississippi region, raise temperatures southeast of its path, bring a notable rain period every 52 days, and be followed by a cool wave after Sept 6.
James K. Davean, 25, a farmer near Red Bank, N J, is killed in a quarrel with Italian residents over manure price. John Simpson, his companion, escapes but is pursued by locals. Police fear lynching amid the mob's uproar.
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