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Newspaper
Mena Star
Location
Mena, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1898
Page
3
The steady downward trend in cotton prices has produced a record low with October delivery at 5.18 cents per pound, four cents below any prior statistic in nearly fifty years. The decline passed with little excitement as traders expected another large output this season based on crop news.
Pulaski Kentucky stock dealer Jobo Mathias says after a week of flux and a non relief from his physician he used Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and half a bottle cured him The product is for sale by F C Savage.
Reduced fares offered from this place to Omaha, St Louis, Buffalo Bill’s show, Kansas City, and Pittsburg Pa for fall events. Tickets on specific days with return limits from five to fifteen days, sales windows October 2 to 10, with various parades and events noted. Also a note offering Benjamin Franklin era reading at F C Savages’s drug store.
In Cove the month stays hot and busy with locals like A L Chaney en route to the Springs for health and Mrs B N Barton visiting Menx. Dode Allen sells odds in Choctaw talk for Barton while silversmiths appear and Billingsly opens a watch repair shop. Uncles John and Liza Little-Page on illness, Ellis Short scouts lumber interests andPreaching to Saints and sinners. WeWill salve claims 20 million free samples proving its quick cures. Pipkin Lanes.
Absentees report B Swartout heading to Silver Hill to bring a proposed smelter buyer to test mineral quality at Golden mines near Dallas. The item touts DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as world leading with counterfeiters warned and Pip Min and Hanes cited as sellers.
An advertisement for Cheatam's Chill Tonic claims to cure chills but not brain softening or ingrown nails. It promotes two styles taste types and a 50¢ size, distributed by Jackson Drug Co. 36-41.
A description of the Manila dandy costume featuring embroidered shirts outside and kilts with sun hat, plus a portrait of children in gala dress. A reader from Stumptown, West Virginia, reports complete recovery of a fifteen month old with diarrhoea after using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, sold by F C Savage.
A humorous fragment recalls a beef meal in the army and a surgeon’s mustard joke. The page then details Cheatham’s Tasteless Chill Tonic bottled in 50 cent sizes, touted as an iron tonic and blood purifier, with ad copy from Jackson Drug Co. Also notes Washington wheat crop estimates and a playful line about 1900.
The household remedy Hunt's Lightning Oil promises quick relief for aches and pains with satisfaction or money refunded. Advertisement from Jackson Drug Co. features the product and store details 40 41.
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