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Newspaper
Scotland Neck The Commonwealth
Location
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1906
Page
4
The Houston Post notes Mies Goodly, a prominent trust magnate, has wed not for money but to reform her husband. The remark highlights public fascination with the union and its perceived motives.
Mrs. Thos. Austin of Leavenworth Indiana suffered female trouble and stomach catarrh. Her husband delayed surgery to try Electric Bitters. The medicine cured her, with guarantees for liver and kidney issues, biliousness, jaundice, chills, fever, debility, nervousness, and blood poisoning. Sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co.'s Drug Store for 207. Try it.
An elderly Confederate sailor recalls Lieutenant Commander W. B. Cushing at Plymouth North Carolina during the Albemarle’s destruction. Cushing, age twenty one, faced heavy fire as he directed a torpedo launch and earned $5,000 prize. His bold voyage boosted Union morale and spurred subsequent naval fame for the Cushing torpedo boat built at Bristol, Rhode Island.
An old advertisement touts Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup by E T Whitehead & Co, claiming quick relief, pleasant maple sugar taste, and no opiates. It emphasizes openness of bowels and links health to avoiding fools' mistakes, aligning with early 20th century medical marketing.
Rich Square Times urges readers to value home life as a source of happiness and virtue. It stresses kind, patient parenting and avoiding fault finding to prevent strife, encouraging all to strive for cheerful, united households with the refrain home sweet home.
A cluttered advertisement segment highlights W. L. Hill’s weight gain claim from 90 to over 180 pounds after using Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds, with drugstore sales and medical cures. Also features DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea, MapZan, and Ring's Dyspepsia Tablets offered by E T Whitehead and Co and Leggett's Drug Store, with humorous anecdotes and assorted health tonics.
Historical notice explains three curing methods sun air and flue with flue curing producing aroma and taste. It highlights Schnapps and Reynolds high grade tobaccos from Piedmont, compares with cheaper air cured leaf, and cites expert tests claiming flue cured is sweeter and more satisfying for chewers.
A seventeenth century sounding meditation urged readers to count bodily gifts health and comforts, compare their lot with the afflicted, and note mind gifts spiritual graces sacraments inspirations and pardons. It asks how past years offered chances for soul advancement and grants a view of gratitude and divine guidance.
For twenty years W. L. Rawls of Belle, Fenn. fought nasal catarrh. He reports swelling and soreness in his nose vanished after applying Bucklen's Arnica Salve to the sore surface. The salve is sold at 25 cents by E. T. Whitehead & Co., Druggists.
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