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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1903
Page
2
A vintage health ad explains kidney function and disease, touting Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a remedy. It links uric acid buildup to aches and heart strain, urges readers to start with kidney care, and offers a sample bottle by mail.
Mooresville Guide reports on town events and social life with updates on residents including Mr. Hadley in Martinsville and Mrs. Landers family details. Dr Plaster of Indianapolis to visit Mooresville for eye exams. next clinic May 25. offices with Doctors Thompson and Hylton.
Local shoppers encounter very pests in grocery lines with low prices from F M Hadley. Martinsville visitors include Mrs Carrolton and daughter Leva. Misses Scrugge Britton Welty. Horace Hadley and Argel Sul Rolla Ulbard picnicked at Blue Bluffs. Delegates named for Epworth League. many visits to Indianapolis Greenburg and Indianapolis for meetings and family visits.
Hornaday Bros offer Rocky Mount ain Tea as a spring tonic claimed to strengthen children promote appetite sleep and growth. Priced at 35 cents it is advertised for the Whale family and general wellness.
A collage of brief items appears: an ad for Scott’s Emulsion claiming human flesh benefits with free samples, obituaries noting Mrs. Q.O. Rooker’s death and funeral details, church society and sermon notices, teacher assignments for next year, local visits, and upcoming excursion tickets and travel notices from Pennsylvania Lines.
An advertisement notes Foley’s Honey and Tar for indigestion and claims X ray tests show catarrh of the stomach stems from repeated indigestion. It promotes Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as a remedy. Also listed is a tannery seeking 5,000 hides and a casual item about a man refusing marriage unless a room was taken, plus Rocky Mountain Tea for 35 cents.
A new timetable effective May 10 on Pennsylvania Lines lets passengers travel Mooresville to West Baden and French Lick without changing cars by boarding No. 47 at 5 16 p m Central Time. Westbound and eastbound trains list Mooresville departure 5 16 p m, West Baden arrival 5 40 p m, French Lick 8 45 p m. return from French Lick 5 45 a m, West Baden 5 50 a m, Mooresville 9 13 a m Central Time. Also note an ad touting Dr King’s New Life Pills as a tonic from D A Turner of Dempseytown, Pa, 25 cents at G W Bass Drug Store.
Program notes parade forms at 1 30 p m and marches to the cemetery under J H Rusie Maryssal of the Day Last Commander J G Kennedy conducts cemetery services Music includes an oration by Forest Branch reading of the Act of Honor by J P Calvert grave decorating and honoring the departed.
In Martinsville Hen county Indiana on May 11 1903 Hiram Mendenuall administrator of Melinda Meevey deceased files a complaint against Heirs of Ellen Cooper heirs of Pleasant Cummins heirs of Pranson Cummins and Martha Harvey not residents of Indiana The defendants are notified to answer or demur by the first day of the September term failing which the allegations will be heard in their absence The clerk is J FE Overton Attorney W J Harrison for the plaintiff.
Addressed to readers on the danger of colic and cholera morbus and recommends Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a dependable life saving medicine kept at hand. Sold by Bass the Druggist.
Advertisers seek readers to share experiences with Green's August Flower for indigestion liver troubles. They promise a free book and offer the 25 cent bottle first, noting the medicine is sold widely and that failure would imply a more serious ailment.
A Greenville, South Carolina law student, A. P. Burbage, suffered years of a persistent cough he feared signaled consumption. After trying Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, he reports a remarkable improvement and says two bottles cured him. Bass drugstore sold it.
Two personally conducted excursions to Colorado Utah and California organized to depart in the first week of July and August with very low round trip rates. Indicated by A A Deane of Pacific Railways Indianapolis Indiana, contact 200 Senator Street.
An old advertisement extols DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve as the remedy for sores boils and burps with claim it heals without scarring. It also touts relief for piles described as blind bleeding itching and protruding. G. WL Bass features in the copy.
A caller insists many suffer from kidney or bladder troubles and shares that if medical aid is possible a cure is Foley's Kidney Cure. It is claimed to never disappoint.
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