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Newspaper
Scotland Neck The Commonwealth
Location
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1907
Page
4
A collage of sayings and product notes appears, including moral quips about adversity and wit, then multiple old advertisements for Liver Pills, Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil, Pinesalve, and Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. The notices, attributed to E. T. Whitehead & Co, promote tonics, cures, and health products with brief endorsements.
Glazed Sweet Potatoes, Virginia Sweet Potatoes, Ginger Pudding, Zenda Pudding, and linen revival method are presented as practical kitchen and household ideas. Recipes describe layered sweet potato dishes with sugar and butter plus steaming puddings, while a linen care method suggests using hay infusion to revive faded fabrics with a distinctive green tint.
A compact home department piece promoting kindness and patience in cooking and marriage duties, advising against overcooking and testing tenderness, and urging charity and warmth. It includes brief notices about Dr Shoop’s Catarrh Remedy, Pine-Nut tonics for kidney and bladder relief, and King’s New Life Pills for liver issues, with local druggists E T Whitehead & Co. and A C Peterson cited.
Le Raysville merchant Woolever touts Bucklen’s Africa Salve as the cure for piles, claiming it fixed his condition twenty years ago. The ad notes it also heals sores, wounds, burns, and abrasions, with a 25 cent price at E. T. Whitehead & Co.’s drug store.
A jumble of historical anecdote and advertisements argues courage amid fear with a Wellington tale, then promotes Man Zan piles treatment, Bees Laxative Cough Syrup, Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup, DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills, and Foley's Honey and Tar. The text blends moral reflection with patent medicines and local ads.
Short notice item notes public speakers frequently stop as audience coughs. The cited remedy Foley's Honey and Tar is claimed to cure coughs and colds and prevent pneumonia and consumption. It stresses genuine product in a yellow package.
Millions have used Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs colds and lung troubles with no harmful effects. The genuine product in the yellow package contains no opiates or harmful drugs and is endorsed by E. T. Whitehead & Co.
The clippings present scattered truisms on courage, health tonics, and household tips. Advertised products include Dean's Ointment for skin issues, Burdock Blood Bitters for blood quality, oil meal for pigs, Pineules for rheumatic pain, and a note about Caleb Powers receiving distant sympathy through former Governor Taylor amid a current crisis.
An ad parodies moral folly while touting De Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pills for kidney and bladder trouble. It claims a million dollars outweighs a happy home and ends by urging a week’s treatment priced at 25 cents, sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co.
Abraham Brown reports doctors misdiagnosed his illness as heart disease kidney trouble blood poison and stomach and liver trouble. After his wife urged Electric Bitters he recovered. one bottle did more good than five doctors. Sold by E T Whitehead Co. druggists for 50 cents.
Dr. Shoop of Racine Wisconsin has produced Health Coffee Imitation the finest coffee substitute yet claimed. It requires no long boiling and is advertised as a minute coffee stand in the store. The product is said to be made from pure toasted cereals with malt and nuts and contains no real coffee. W. T. Tyler endorses it noting experts might be fooled.
An old advertisement extols Dr Shoop's Cough Cure as a safe, non opium remedy made from a sacred mountain shrub. It claims to calm coughing and heal bronchial membranes, suitable for adults and babies, urging mothers to use it and avoid harsher medicines.
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