Parson’s Visit Reveals Farmyard Chickens Left Home
A colored parson visits Bradder Johnson and finds no chickens in the yard as Johnson explains in dialect that some fool let the door open and all the birds went home. A clergyman touts Preventic cold cure pills as safe and effective with no quinine. Ginger root from Jamaica is praised for superior quality and high price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradder Johnson
Johnson
Kansas City
Southeast Asia
Malty Archipelago
South America
Jamaica
From Bucklen's Arnica to Pink Pain Tablets and More
A collage of testimonial blurbs touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve for curing sores and burns, Pink Pain Tablets for headaches and pains, Shoop's Health Coffee, and a quip about the pen and sword. Also notes general ads for cough remedies, a London anecdote, and a farmer ad seeking wheat and oats at top market price.
Left on Doorstep for This Mother Noticed Vinol Trial
Mrs A G Tyson of Livermore California writes of her five year old daughter who suffered loss of appetite nervousness and fatigue Vinol helped her child gain strength and resist colds The reader praises the Vinol trial and urges other mothers with weak or delicate children to try it Sexton Bros Druggists endorse the product
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. G. Tyson
Livermore
Cal
Ioon
Franks Cheney Catarrh Cure Ad and Miscellaneous Notes
An 1886 Toledo ad details Frank J. Cheney asserting his firm will pay one hundred dollars for every untreatable catarrh case, promoting Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills. The passage shifts to a tribute letter about Chopin and other miscellaneous notes on Dr Shoop's cough remedy, Turkish time reckoning, and brief newspaper snippets from the New York Tribune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F J. Cheney & Co
Hall
Seac
A.W. Gleason
Cheney & Co
Toledo O
Europe
Turkey
New York Tribune
Digestive tonic praised by San Francisco resident
Mrs Mary Dowling of 228 8th Ave San Francisco testifies to the benefits of Electric Bitters for acute indigestion and stomach and liver troubles. The remedy is described as a great tonic that purifies the blood and aids female weakness, selling for 50 cents at Sexton Bros. drug store. Case Johnson liverymen now operate from a new barn on South Central avenue with a funeral hearse in service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
W. V. Henry
Panama
Sexton Bros. Drug Store
Germany
Mary Dowling
8Th Ave
San Francisco
Case & Johnson
South Central Avenue
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Schumaker Lonising
Schumakers
Geo. H. Welton
Deming Building
M.C. Luechenbac
Central Avenue
Wis
Smongeski
Green Bay
Wisconsin
Ness Johnson
Marshfield
Herman Buchmiller Dray Line
North Side
Louis Baumann
B. E. McHackon & Co
Omaha Depot
A Clergeman
Sexton Bros
Bucklen
A. F. Hardy
East Wilton
Maine
Strand Magazine
Washington Herald
London Chronicle
Upham Mty, Co
Oarsnpleld R
Count Grymale
Tyas
Chopin
Mme. Potocka
Roswin
Bellini
Mozart
Lab
Dr. Shoop
Dr. Snoop
the Times
Roosevelt
Himself
Parker and Jones
Berger
Dr. Pierce
Worth’s Dispensary
Mexican Association
R. ¥. Pierce
Main Street
Buffalo
N. Y
Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel
Sur Gical Institute
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