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Newspaper
Mena Star
Location
Mena, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1899
Page
6
Fragmentary miscellany recounts a legendary cold wave with frosted water, frozen wildlife, and a village bard’s talk on the winter of ninety-nine. It blends regional lore, moral maxims, and ads for health products, ending with a tobacco fire report and a physician testimonial.
A Plainfield woman describes a months long battle with a lung illness diagnosed as consumptive. After trial with Dr King’s New Discovery she improves after six bottles and returns to full health. Free trial bottles offered at F Savage’s drug store. Also reports on spinal meningitis risks and a historic folk remedy involving hemlock sweats as a preventive measure.
George D. Williams of Manchester Michigan recounts how his wife, crippled by illness for five years, was freed from her chains of disease after using two bottles of Electric Bitters. The remedy is praised as a cure for nervousness sleeplessness melancholy headaches back ache fainting and dizziness with a 50 cent bottle price and a guarantee. Sold by FP Savage druggist.
The Jackson Drug Co on Mena street reports a large increase in drug stock and offers wholesale filling of orders. They specialize in supplying country physicians with medicines in large quantities and can provide everything needed in any quantity called for.
A bank barn west of Muncie Indiana burned at one o'clock yesterday morning. Five horses were killed, 12 cattle 20 hogs and 100 chickens perished, 20 cattle escaped. Farm implements harness feed and grain were destroyed.
An advertisement touts Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for skin eruptions and wounds at 25 cents a box, with a money back guarantee, from I. C. Savage. A wharfboat burned at Refuge oil mills in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on March 4, destroying the Natchez hull with about 3,500 cotton seed sacks aboard. Also notices for Simmons Squaw Wine and land for sale or trade near Osceola and Mena, Arkansas, seeking a sale or exchange trade.
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