Swift's Pharmacy Builds Expansion with Advertising
The Bugle reporter finds Swift from 117 N 19th St expanding his double store by about forty feet due to growing business. He credits advertising in the Bugle and a broad stock of goods, free delivery, and courteous clerks for success. He details a local circular delivery system and self-made booklets used to spread ads, including lem ons donated for a church program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swift
Mr. Swift
John
Bugle
Printer’s ink and eggs drive Swift’s drug business strategy
A druggist explains his advertising scheme to a reporter, promising profits from sign displays on farms and rubber-stamped eggs sold at a cent a dozen, asserting the eggs’ reliability and freshness. He urges a visit to share advertising tricks and notes farmers’ bellwether role in boosting town trade. The reporter leaves impressed by Swift’s salesmanship and the lasting power of print.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Swift
Johnston’s Sarsaparilla Quart Bottles Ad Claims
An old advertisement touts Johnston’s Sarsaparilla in quart bottles claiming remedies for painful and suppressed menses, irregularities, leucorrhea, sterility, and uterine issues. It lists Michigan Drug Co and retailers J V Brown Co, Model, and Lovelady Co as sellers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnston
Michigan Drug CO
Beer It Mich
Yellow jaundice remedy cited for liver stomach woes
Lexington man M A Hogarty turns yellow as doctors fail to help. After two bottles of Electric Bitters he claims a full cure for Yellow Jaundice and stomach liver and kidney troubles. R F Lovelady sells the remedy for 50 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. A. Hogarty
Lexington
R. F. Lovelady, Drugglat
DeWitt’s Salve Promises Quick Healing Despite Claims
A garbled advert claims DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve quickly heals piles and warns against counterfeits. It also touts White’s Vermitage for intestinal worms in children and promotes DeWitt’s Little Early Risers as a digestive aid, with prices and retailer names shown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWitt
J. W. Brown & Co
Churches and schedules at Aarks churches list
Local church notices list service times and activities for multiple congregations. The Methodist Episcopal Churches under Rev J G Johnson and Rev J K Turner, the Presbyterian Church under Rev Frank Marston, the Baptist Church under Rev W C McPherson, St Catherine Catholic under Rev L H Galland. Services include Sunday schools, morning and evening sermons, Epworth League, prayer meetings, and Ladies' Aid Society sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Episcopal Church
J. G. Johnson
Epworth League
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
John K. Turner
Juvenile Missionary Society
Ladies’ Home Mission Society
Presbyterian Church
Frank Marston
Ladies’ Aid Society
W. C. McPherson
St. Catherine’s Church
L. H. Galland
Local Notes Packed With Names And Small Town News
Mr. E. V. Roden of Birmingham spent a few hours with his beer girl last Sunday. Louis Loval Jr hopes to be out on the streets soon. J. R. Henderson has sold his bakery and may join a Mississippi firm. Harry Nordman of Bessemer spent Wednesday in Tuxedo. William Lindsey, recently released from St Vincent Hospital, is much improved. J. C. Thompson, ill for a month, shows some improvement. Tuxedo seeks better car service and value. Miss Trene McWilliams visited Porter, Alabama, then returned home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. V. Roden
Birmingham
J.R. Henderson
Mississippi
Harry Nordman
Bessemer
William Lindsey
St. Vincent Hospi
J.C. Thompson
Jvers
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Snell Line
Goto
Rogers & Slury
Wans J. Pevann
Yann Brothers
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Veer
Sereet Dyurs
J. M. Fason
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Boston Dye House
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Union Barber Shop
JOE C
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Bothuchld & Ch
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Chear Bros
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Dunker Bros
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Posand
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Bet
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Moerlein Beer
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BinminonAn
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Nat'l Bank Bidy
Telephone Sy
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Senifort | Thacna Specialy
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Andrews & Atkins
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el Serene Baio Sale
Rone's
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Birminghin
J. V. Brown & Co
Tie Model Pilisidney
Lovelady & Co
Clover
Wood
T. W. Wood & Sons, Seedsmen
Richmond, VA
Rood
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Birmingham Paint Mills
Lovelady’s
Wien
Eestine
White
Price
Lovejoy & Co
DeWitto
Andrew Carnegie
Eneley
United States
Rosier
Orst Southermmade
Busley
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Slug
Semet-Solvay Chemical Works
Enley
Ensley Property
Legionix
Coe Il
Business College
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Lockyear's
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Cody
W. Cody
D. B. Luster
Aarks
Guba
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J. A. McWilliams
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Louis Loval, Jr
Trene McWilliams
Porter
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