Comfort IN Cresco Corsets Claim Secure at Waist
An advertisement touts Cresco Corsets promising no waistline break and constant comfort regardless of price, asserting durability and sane luxury for wearers seeking lasting support.
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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1902
Page
170
An advertisement touts Cresco Corsets promising no waistline break and constant comfort regardless of price, asserting durability and sane luxury for wearers seeking lasting support.
A Friday issue of the Mooresville Guide covers local business ads and weekly happenings. Items include groceries and deliveries, visits from Indianapolis and Washington figures, social calls, family news, and notices of residents like Hanniata Taster nephew of HD Tayter who died at home in Banta.
Local column reports visits by Mrs. Patton of Vermilion and others, business messages for Hadley & Neal, and Plank road notes. Mentions new bank plastering by John Suert, family visits, weddings, and residents building homes. Includes church notices, school plans, and social gatherings with multiple named locals.
An old time ad claims Scott's Emulsion feeds nerves and strengthens digestion to build bone and muscle for those wasting away. It touts the product as the great giver of human flesh for nearly thirty years and lists Scott & Bowne as chemists in New York with a price of two dollars at drugstores.
A sprawling mix of ads and notices from Plainview to Mooresville lists remedies groceries hardware and meat markets. It highlights Fowler phonetic slips, farm sales, milk wagon service, oyster suppers, church events, and family sickness with brief community notes and upcoming musicales.
A testimonial from Alfred Bee of Wel fare Lenx cites relief from biliousness back pain and sleeplessness after using Electric Bitters. He says they restored sleep appetite and strength and promotes vigorous health for weak and run down people. Available for 50 cents at G W Buss drug store.
Advertisement offers 500 bushels of Fultz Mediterranean seed wheat at 74 cents per bushel. Also seeks to buy, butcher, or cure hogs. Contact W. A. Sellars at phone 5 on 38 R. R. No.1.
Advertisement announces a combined offer in Indianapolis for the Daily Sun and The Guide with one year for 5 dollars, six months 1.50, three months 75 cents, and one month 25 cents prepaid. It notes the Sun has the city’s largest daily circulation except one and offers postage free samples at the Guide office.
Look with horror on skin eruptions blotches and sores but Bucklen’s Arnica Salve purifies the face and removes salt rheum. It cures sore lips chapped hands and chilblains and is infallible for piles. 25 cents at G W Bass’ drug store.
O KE Rooker announces a public sale of farm stock on west Washington Street near the old cemetery at 2 o clock Saturday October 25. Items include a polled Angus heifer a Shorthorn yearling steer spring calves nine Chester White sows and six male spring pigs plus other hogs and 20 bushels of clover seed. Also private sale of a 9 year old dapple gray mare 154 hands high sound as a dollar. Seen day of sale. VP Thurman auctioneer.
An old advertisement extols Foley's Kidney Cure for kidney danger and Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs and colds. It promotes products by G W Bass and Hornaday Bros with a note on a buggy for sale and various goods at Rosie's. The copy features archaic claims and generic endorsements.
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