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Newspaper
Salem Times Register
Location
Salem, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1897
Page
1
In Brown City Michigan the editors describe a quirky tip to keep hens at home. Use small cards labeled Please keep your darned old hens at home tied to corn on strings scattered near henhouses. The method aims to lure the hen to follow the string back to its owner. The note suggests Charley test and report results.
The Times-Reraister outlines a Union chapter in Salem with motto Our God and Home Our Pledge to abstain from intoxicants and to discourage use. Meetings are scheduled at the president's High Street home on December 28 and weekly Tuesdays at 3 30 to train youths in abstinence and purity and oppose the liquor trade.
A Baptist church event by Loyal Temperance Legion features recitations and songs led by Rev. H C Y Campbell with medals awarded to Nannie Ballard amid a temperance appeal. The piece “Has the Week's Delight come Hannah” follows, detailing Oswell’s overdue subscription prompting payment and relief. One Minute Cough Cure is advertised.
An Oklahoma notice extols Chamberlains Cough Remedy as a reliable cure for coughs and colds and a certain preventive of pneumonia. The letter from Oolagah, Ind Ter claims it has prevented pneumonia in thousands who used it for La Grippe. Available in 25 and 50 cent sizes from W T Younger.
Ernest Eggsecker a farmer in St Louis died at the Baptist Sanitarium after a dog bite in September. Contrary to common belief he did not suffer. he remained rational and drank water normally until death. One attendant offered companionship rather than medical care. The note ends with a religious exhortation about living in light.
War between the Arbuckle Coffee Company and Woolson Spice Co. boosts weekly coffee sales to record levels. Woolson Spice, controlled by the Havemeyers, sells Rio No. 7 at 9 cents a pound while Arbuckles cut prices, signaling prices at their lowest since before the war. A separate note mentions Aliie Hughes of Norfolk burned by an incident and DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve offering relief. Also rumor and denial swirl about John Sherman’s cabinet tenure.
One hundred dollars offered for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney & Co of Toledo sell the remedy at 75 cents a bottle. Endorsed by West Traux Walding Kinnan Marvin wholesale druggists. Testimonial letters available. Oral intake claims to act on blood and mucous surfaces.
Kansas City reports John Whalen a human ostrich suffering stomach trouble after swallowing doorknobs rat-tail files tacks nails and blade. watch swallowed from Dr Adams by string. Mrs Stark of Pleasant Ridge Ohio touts One Minute Cough Cure as cure for coughs colds and throat and lung troubles from Dillard Persinger.
Lancaster pacer E H Bomberger, in Wytheville since August, returns to Pennsylvania after buying and shipping 3710 head of cattle from August six to November one, spending about 115000 to 120000 dollars. In Wales a stone breaker chats with a rider who jokes about taking stones to hades or heaven.
Ad warns of dangers facing young women entering adulthood due to feminine weaknesses. It promotes Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as restoring health, vitality, and proper function of womanly organs, citing a testimonial from Mrs. W. B. Duncan and a mother advising use for her daughter after unsuccessful doctor visits.
An advertising notice for DeWitt's Little Early Risers liver pills by Dillard & Persinger promote quick prosperity through relief from constipation biliousness indigestion and stomach and liver troubles.
The advertisement touts Chamberlain's Eye and Skin Ointment as effective for tetter salt rheum and eczema with intense itching and smarting, noting many severe cases cured. It also promotes use for itching piles sore nipples chapped hands chilblains frost bites and chronic sore eyes at 25 cents per box.
J M Hale urges Virginia farmers to plant large orchard tracts on rough hills to grow winter apples. He notes Virginia markets pay 2.50 dollars per barrel this year and English buyers pay 3.50 to 4.50, with some shipments netting over 5 per barrel. Railroads promote orchard expansion and southern states compete with the North. He counsels educated youths to stay on farms and highlights Chamberlains remedy anecdote and local druggist advertising.
Worthington editor praises Electric Bitters as a valuable constipation and headache remedy and general tonic. Mrs. Annie Stelle of Chicago reports recovery after six bottles, restored health and strength. Bottles priced 50 cents and 1.00 at W. T. Younger's drug store.
A last week session highlighted a Treasury deficit of 45 million dollars tied to the Dingley tariff for five months of the fiscal year. Adverts tout De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve for eczema and piles, Shaker Digestive Cordial, One Minute Cough Cure, and a note on Hawaii's sex ratio.
A vintage ad promotes Backley's Arnica Salve as the top salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. It claims to cure piles with satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded at 25 cents per box, sold by W T Younger, druggist.
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