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Newspaper
Perry Advertiser
Location
Perry, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1898
Page
8
A garbled ad asserts exclusive fashion value and extra satisfactions from clothes. It promises that customers gain real money in their pockets and highlights the city’s finest selection, with early buyer incentives. The text notes a large stock of women's wear now available with wet inspection, by Gough.
The establishment boasts full readiness to meet patrons needs with pure drugs as a specialty and a superior stock of toilet essentials, perfumes, soaps, cosmetics, and other items. A wide cigar counter features finest brands and quality cigars.
A fragmented OCR page lists local events, medical ads, and shop notices. It mentions gatherings, possible committee meetings, and community club plans with references to Panther, Willard, and Jefferson. Also includes medical product claims and a Draper & Loughlin Drug Store advertisement with prices per bottle.
An old time drugstore ad touts Bucklen’s Anica Salve as the best remedy for cuts, bruises, sores, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns and all skin eruptions. It claims to cure piles or money back. Box price is 25 cents at Draper & Loughlin Co's Drug Store.
An aged advertisement references Scott's Emulsion and warns against substitutions in a long marketed product. The copy urges buyers to ensure they get Scott’s Espulsion and mentions chemists in New York, noting a $100 price in a damaged sales fragment.
The ad touts MICA AXLE GREASE as making wagons pull easier and reducing wear and expense. It claims wide availability and describes benefits and purchases across markets, mentioning large bottles and a dramatic health claim. The text mixes product hype with confusing medical anecdotes and unclear endorsements.
An uneven OCR fragment describes a Philadelphia robbery tale narrated by a Mr t and references a sickness cure story with Electric Bute and a sales pitch for American Popular Music. It also reports a legal notice amending Article TiZ of Perry Telephone Company Articles. The notice authorizes signature and restates capital stock change from Five Hundred Dollars to Twenty per cent.
The article itemizes wages for military medical staff including senior and junior veterinary surgeons, hospital matrons, sergeants, and nurses, with figures like 300.00 for a senior veterinary surgeon and 73.00 for a junior. It also notes hospital staffing and duties, plus a discussion of medical care approaches such as fresh air and cod liver oil emulsions as remedies.
Advertisement for Tar Syrup claiming to cure a cold in one day. Promotes Warner's White Wine of Tar Syrup as the best cough remedy on earth with price points at 25 and 50 cents.
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