Leaf Tobacco 1883 Boosts Louisville Market Prospects
Statistics show Louisville leaf tobacco sales in 1883 rising sharply, surpassing 1878 and last year by large hogshead margins and beating four year averages by over 16,000 hogsheads. Demand revived after tax optimism, with lower consumer costs boosting consumption and 1884 seen as highly promising for tobacco trade and prices.
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Louisville
Louisyje
Casey
Cincinnati Tobacco Association
Fear of graveyards and Ethan Allen legend in Vermont tale
A Vermont fireside tale recalls Ethan Allen visiting a moonless graveyard to prove courage by touching skulls in coffins. The crowd expected fear, but Allen’s humor and bravado turned the challenge into a local legend about unlimited courage.
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Vermont
Ticonderoga
Ethan Allen
Allen
Death
A Highlander Serves as Prince’s Head Musician
A Scottish piper named John McK rose to head musician for an Indian prince, who paid him well and outfitted him in scarlet and gold. He trained fourteen pipers, dressed in green tunics and tartan, and stayed five years before returning to Scotland with savings to start a business.
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London
John McK
Scotland
John
Scotch Parents and the Caledonian Bill Ledger
Edinburgh Letter notes two Scotch family anecdotes about bills and reckonings. A youth receives a breakfast bill detailing meals at his father’s house and insists on accuracy, while another father hands his children a full account of expenses from birth, including nurse and doctor fees, for repayment.
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Mdinburgh
Edinburgh
Saw Loan Sparks Constitutional Ruckus
A carpenter and a colored man argue over a borrowed saw and rights under the Constitution. The exchange highlights tensions around property rights and civil rights as the Supreme Court is referenced.
Tramp Seeks Castoff Clothes From Rich Austin Nabob
A gaunt tramp appeals to a portly Austin property owner asking for castoff clothes. The nabob refuses due to hard times and high taxes, joking that he must wear his own castoffs. The tramp then considers a clothes swap before wandering toward a beer saloon.
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Austin
Teras
Local pharmacist touts St Jacobs Oil sales surge
Benj W Paton of Globe Village Massachusetts claims the miracle pain cure has doubled his trade in a month while keeping ample stock. Army and Navy officers deem St Jacobs Oil the greatest pain cure of the age. A Lyons cloth from dawn of hens, ducks, geese is described, offering waterproof warmth.
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Benj. W. Paton
Globe Village
Mass
St. Jacobs Oil
Army
Navy
Lyons
Hypochondria and the Hope of Recovery Through a Patent Remedy
A physician narrates a personal battle with hypochondria and debility, detailing prolonged illness, failed treatments, and eventual recovery after using H. H. Warner & Co.'s Tippecanoe. He urges readers to try the remedy despite skepticism toward medical opinion, claiming it restored health and stamina after extensive suffering.
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Magende
Europe
Captain Hope
Agin
H. H. Warner & Co
Tippecanoe
AG. Bienanns
M. D
Tremont Street
Boston
Muss
Aphorisms from the Quarters by J Mackey
A collection of dialect aphorisms reflecting street wisdom and social observations. Phrases critique credit, law, pride, luck, honesty, and class with colorful regional speech and a note attributing to J Mackey in Century.
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Lean
J. A. Mackey
Nervousness causes and cures in old remedies
Causes of nervousness are dyspepsia biliousness and constipation. The sympathetic nerve between epigastric region and brain suffers when digestion is disordered, causing nervous system disturbance. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters restores digestive tone and relieves nervous complaints, eradicating causes and rebuilding weakened systems. It claims lasting cure by removing alimentary weakness. A mix of ad copy and partial notices follows with product mentions and personal testimonial quotes.
Are Dreams Prophetic and How to Defeat Forebodings
Troy Times discusses dreams of death and the belief some have that such omens foretell real events. It cites Lincoln’s dream of the President’s murder and urges prompt health action against forebodings, presenting Dr Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy as a successful example that revived a Troy official’s health and weight.
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Troy
Lincoln
White House
Earth
William Moul
West Sandlake
Supreme Court
David Kennedy
N. Y
Solid Comfort Kidney-Wort Remedy for Malaria and Liver Ailments
A vintage ad touts Kidney-Wort as a vegetable compound of roots leaves and berries for malaria rheumatism biliousness jaundice and liver and kidney troubles. It claims the remedy removes disease causes fortifies the system and suits anyone in households. It also notes a social misfit remark about a woman who cannot do multiplication.
Butter Color Demand Increases Butter Quality Across States
Dairymen using Wells Richardson & Co. improved Butter Color report higher butter values by several cents per pound. The additive is pure and harmless, provides instant use, adds a clear golden richness, and carries no taste or odor. Demand for the product is rising nationwide.
Dr Hall's Balsam for the Lungs Discovery
A physician named Dr William Hall pioneered a remedy for throat chest and lung diseases called Dr Win Hall's Balsam for the Lungs. It achieved wide fame and was said to be a speedy and positive cure for coughs colds sore throat and related ailments.
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William Hall
Win
Hall
Endorsed remedies from clergy and doctors in Michigan ads
A collection of testimonials and claims for medical tonics and cures. Clergy from Reading Albion and Ann Arbor endorse Dr Warner's White Wine of Tar Syrup and Dr Sykes Sure Cure for catarrh. Additional notices tout Terra-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya as a tonic and Ely's Cream Balm for catarrh with a patient testimonial from Garrett Wipiricaw of Hastings New York.
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Calisaya
Caswell, Hazard & Co
New York
Ely
Garrett Wipiricaw
Hastings
N.Y
Cured Clergymen Praise White Wine of Tar Syrup
Rev L Caultan of Circleville Kansas testifies that Warner's White Wine of Tar Syrup has been used in his family and proven to cure throat and lung diseases swiftly, affirming claims as accurate and even exceeded.
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Rev. L. &. Caultan
Circleville
Kas
Pr. Warner
Wm. A. Graham & Co
Zanesville
Ohio
Matthias Freeman
Sorrow and Triumph in a Humble Cure Sales Verse
Sorrow and gloom the soul may meet yet love wrings triumph from defeat. The ad touts remedies with odd names including Mavic Carboline Wells May Apple Pill and Buchu paiba for liver and urinary issues. Also mentions Rough on Corns and other tonics with prices like 10c and 160.
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AD Lacey
Washington
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Mich
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Musa
Can. L. Bingham
Washington, D.C
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Union Square
Beat & Agricultural Journal
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School of Cookery
Park Row
Queen City
Eta Sawpleouth
Queen City Suspender Co
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Twomblyening Machine Co
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USA
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Owero
Hop Plaster Co
Bathe
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Meredith, Dennet
Jeremiah Wright
Marion County
Wy. Va
Wm. C. Digges
Bowling Green
Babara
Wiol
Detroit, Mich
Hops and Malt Bitters Co
Bingiam
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DBC
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