Mother’s Letter Credits Chamberlain’s Remedy with Daughter’s Life
A Rhode Island mother recalls her eight children and describes how Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy saved her young daughter's life during a severe dysentery episode. She urges other mothers to know of the medicine, noting it would have spared her great anxiety. Sold by Al W Hornaday.
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Tsaw
Chamberlain
Tam
Mrs.Giee
Po Beinigat
Liberty, R.1
AL W. Hornaday
Bargains, visits, and local notes in town life
Local residents report grocery bargains at Dressler's and fresh produce daily. Several visitors and guests arrive or stay including Miss Jessie Woodrull in Brooklyn and Mrs. Laura Hadley’s Sunday visit. The Danville Military Band offers a Sunday concert at Cartersburg, and a lightning strike damages Everett Allen's barn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everett Allen
Mr. Allien
Danville Agents Offer Regional Farms for Sale
Hollowell and Downard of Danville Indiana list farms in Hendricks and nearby counties for sale with varied prices and terms. They seek buyers or sellers and note demand for stock raising or grain farms from 19 to 100 acres.
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Danville
Indiana
Hendricks
Local Ads and Health Claims from Early Catalog
A collage of storefront notices includes Ice Cream at Taggart's Washing machines at Overton's Ladies Corsets 39c at P. Thompson's and medicinal claims. It touts remedies for weak lungs and coughing as cures for consumption by Fury's Honey and Tye and other quack remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taggart’s
Overton's
Fury
G. W. Bass
Local Notes from Madison Township and Surroundings
In Madison Township the weekly update covers politics and heat, with reports of illnesses including typhoid fever and typhoid-related deaths in the Berge and Park families. It notes attendance at a White River picnic, visits by Walter and Jessie Boyd, and a Democratic convention planned for September 1st to nominate a township ticket. A reader endorses Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as effective.
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Mooresville
Madison
Mr. Berge
Otto
Walter
Jessie Boyd
Brooklyn
Asa Mendenhall
J. A.carter
H. C. Carter
Billie Pasamore
White River
Old Madison
Willard Passmore
Willard
Tales of remedies and cures in Bennettsville ad copy
An editor from Bennettsville S C touts Electric Bitters for wife’s dyspepsia and torpid liver, promising quick relief and a complete cure after four bottles. Also promotes One Minute Cough Cure and Chamberlains Diarrhoea remedy with claims of fast, reliable results and widespread satisfaction.
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A. Brown
Bennettsville
S.C
G. W. Bass’ Drug Store
Horse tonics and remedies for prime condition
An advertisement extols tonic, blood purifier, and vermifuge as horse medicines not food but essential to vigor. It notes price at 25 cents per package and selling by J. W. Hornaday. It also markets Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for digestion and appetite, and warns against counterfeit salves with DeWitt’s Hazel and related brands.
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J. W. Hornaday
Olly Major
MAJOR
Drnegtste
Major Cement CO
New York City
Dyspepticide touted as aid to digestion and cure for backache
An early 20th century notice touts Dyspepticide as the greatest aid to digestion and claims backaches stem from kidney disorder. also promotes Forer's Kipsey Cane as a remedy, urges no substitute, and lists a house for sale on east High Street with names Ola Thomas and Minnie Doughty. A found item mentions a lady's black cape at a church stand and Bas drug store for retrieval.
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East High Street
Will Apple
Ola Thomas
Minnie Doughty
Bas
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Charles Ozment
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Jessie Woodrull
Lizzie Clark
Will Gridhin
Rairview Park
P. Thompson
Carrie Scott
Scotts Uhl
Dave Stephenson
West Newton
Thomas Prescott
W. PP. Hadley
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Afr
George Bell
Mrr
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Poe. Lawrence
Laura
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Miss Smith
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Harry Thompson
Tudianapedes
Tf Setguiarters
Phaet Obee
Moers
Regeel Elise
Finkins
Avon
Tiabesloman
Tepnaan
Aliss Iuie Merris
Cole Merris
Oscar Serujus Meanday
Sellars
Los the Smer
de. Woo. Phorpson
BM. Clawson
Alexander Ayers
Tadiapapedis
Cam. Clawson
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Mro Amd
A. Barnett
Pear Friendswood
Petoskey
Mich
Ape Menetit O
Barnett
Vuheir
Tarnetts
Nate Day
Hong
Mys
Leonard Rusie
Tiedaanes
eVortheo
Warren House
Dressiar’s
M. VP
Mr. Frakes
Dugger
Letvgweil
Wells County
de Witt
G W Bass
Overton
Percy
Crickt
Westy Cone
G. WY Bass
Mooresville ,Indiana
Pam
AL Db
Pbuthen St
Wans
J. H. Thornburgh
Sims
Sceelee
R.T. Hollowell
Danville, Indiana
Hollowell & Downard
W. H. Henderson
Monrovia
P. Thompson's
Madison Township
John Berge
Carl Park
Denis Lynn
Waverly
Benjamin Mendenhall
Missouri
Spain
David Taylor
Wind Ridge
Greene Co
W. Hornaday
Bass
Foley
DeWittt
J. W. Hornaney
Risers
G.W. Bass
India
Cooper & Sellars
Calverts Gallery
Cheuce
Weatmarket
Bryge
A. W. Rusie
R. R. Scott’s
Robert R. Scott
I. N. Thompson & Jones
Pr. Cady
DeWitt
Zel
Iseases
K. They
Tead
G. WL Bass
C.L. Hallam
Bentist
Othee
Lakery
Dros
AM. Swain
Moore-vide
Martinsville
Indiananatis
Tims Road Up
Ertaiagha
Lyons
Brod Marce
Sandbora Westphais
Birgel Bracevilla
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S.dacas
Pecet
B.A. Ford
Vega
Magares
PENNA
Pennsylvania Lines
Forer
Kipsey
Anner
O. E. Dutton
Ferry
Tor’s
Louis P. Krumshield
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Ind
Madison Medicine Co
Wis
Hoop Bros
A. T. Dr Wits
Ripans
Geo. Bower
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Jersey City
Daca Wigpman
Straus IL
Abe
Axton W. Bravest
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Mason Street
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