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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1898
Page
1
Readable remnants list includes Sliver Gray silk blankets and Half-Wool Scarlet blankets. Also offered are ladies wrappers, parkas, Russian fleece wear, muslin goods, prints, Turkey Red fabrics, and comfort robes. Prices noted with some yardage and sale terms.
A humorous student essay on hens misstates anatomy and behavior with playful errors. It describes hens as curious creatures with no noses or teeth, claims crops store vittles, and jokes about pillars of feathers. The piece ends with a tragic line about killing a hen with a hatchet and references spring chickens.
An excerpt describes 18th century attire at a Washington era ball. It notes gowns of celestial blue satin with white satin petticoats, large cravat-like neckwear, globe-like gauze hairpieces, and embroidered roses. Men wore frock coats, powdered hair, breeches, and regimental details in period style.
A garbled historical item records a voyage toward gold fields with scattered names and places. It mentions sisters, a resolution to publish a copy to sister Elliott and a local panel, and notes a print edition price of 39 cents a year.
Advert from G. W. Bass Drug Store promotes Electric Bitters as a remedy for malaria nervous ailments and general debility. It claims to tone the liver and kidneys purify blood and relieve constipation headaches fainting spells sleeplessness and melancholy. Purely vegetable mild laxative restores natural vigor with each bottle priced 50 cents.
Florida letter from Melbourne describes pleasant weather after a Christmas cold snap, healthy community, and good morals with no intoxication during two months. It also recounts a hunting and fishing trip by Indiana men near Crane Creek where they pursued an alligator with a spear and boat tow, ending with a broken spear and a tense return to town.
A group of itinerant dealers circulated through the state offering ranges and stores to farmers for 69 dollars each. Farmers signed notes bearing 6 percent interest payable in ten years, with December 1 1997 as the due date. About 85 dollars worth were sold in one county and 60 dollars profit per sale is suspected. The piece urges avoiding home merchants and notes the buyers face repayment demands. The notice ends with a separate farm ad near Mooresville and Indianapolis.
We are anxious to do a little good in this World and can think of no pleasanter or better way to do it than by recommending One Minute Cough Cure as a preventive of pneumonia, consumption and other serious lung troubles that follow neglected colds.
A Stockton New York notice from June 28 1894 recounts a bilious weak patient who recovered after two bottles of Blood and Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic. A Chicago man crediting S F Fritz reports severe cough and lung involvement improved after Foley’s Honey and Tar and a return to health. Sold by J W Hornaday and G W Bass among local druggists.
The ad touts Foley’s Kidney Cure as reliable for kidney and bladder diseases and praises DeWitt’s Little Early Risers as effective for stomach and liver troubles. It quips that three small things do more work than others, naming the ant and bee alongside the pills.
The article warns that kidney disease is the leading adult killer and urges early actionwhen symptoms appear to take Foley's Kidney Cure, which is guaranteed or money refunded.
Advertisement claims careful manufacture and perfect preparation of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for coughs colds and whooping cough. Describes it as pleasant tasting safe for children and effective for adults. For sale by G. W. Bass.
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