Health Coffee and humorous clippings in late 19th century miscellany
A collage of quotes and ads from a news page features a Paris social vignette about Pontbiquet returning after a barber visit, spoof health coffee claims by Dr. Shoop, and jokes. It includes brief notices for Health Coffee substitutes, a urinary and womb remedies pitch, and small humor exchanges, plus ads for Electric Bitters and Kodol digestion products and standard comic captions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shoop
Racine
Wis
Howard Grocery Co
Nothing to All Poem Warns Against Alcohol’s Toll
A didactic poem warns that claiming drunkenness affects “nothing to me” ignores the harm alcohol causes. It links personal indifference to wrecked families, deadliness on the rail, prison, and ruined lives, urging readers to turn to faith and action rather than indifference.
Dr King's New Discovery praised by Omega store owner
Mr E Humphrey of Omega Ohio, president of two local telephone firms, credits Dr King's New Discovery with saving his life by reaching the cough spot. Ad reads the medicine heals throat and chest, sold at E T Whitehead Co with 50c and 1.00 and trial bottle free. Also a jab about railroads from Southwesterns Book and a note urging a coughing congregant to buy Foley's Honey and Tar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Humphrey
Omega, O
Adams County Telephone Co
Home Telephone Co
Pike County
Dr. King
E. T. Whitehead Company
Foley’s
E. T. ‘Whitehead Company
Prohibition Sermon Rally and Patent Medicine Ads
The piece recalls Henry W. Grady urging prohibition in North Carolina on May 26, calling intemperance a destroyer of family life and social order. It also markets Bees Laxative Cough Syrup and Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup with claims of relief for coughing, colds, and children, followed by a brief joke about a farmer’s year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry W. Grady
South
North Carolina
Egypt
Joshua
Jericho
Wm. H. Anderson
Soda Springs
Ida
E. T. Whitehead & Co
EB. T. Whitehead Company
VALUED SAME AS GOLD DR KING PILLS SELLING PROMISE
Cedar View merchant B G Stewart asserts customers receive worth in gold weight when buying Dr King s New Life Pills for constipation malaria or biliousness at E T Whitehead Co drug store. He urges DeWitt s Witch Hazel Salve as the original healing soothing cooling remedy for piles sold by the same firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. G. Stewart
Cedar View
Dr. King
E. T. Whitehead Company
DeWitt
E. 7
Whitehead Co
Why I am a Prohibitionist by ex governor Aycock
Ex governor Aycock argues that prohibition protects individual rights by sacrificing personal appetites for the children's uplift and national greatness. The piece contrasts liquor with virtue, cites monuments to good deeds, and rejects liquor as appealing to worst impulses. Includes advertisements for remedies and medicines from E T Whitehead Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aycock
Care of Farm Machinery Selected
Advice on annual care for farm equipment stressing shelter, cleaning, rust prevention, and painting to extend life. Includes testimonials praising Bucklen’s Arven and Pineules with local seller details.
Foley Kidney Cure Praised by Willimantic Man
In New England notes, Alvin H. Stimpson of Willimantic Conn credits Foley's Kidney Cure with his recovery after many remedies failed. He says four bottles cured him completely and he is now free from kidney trouble. E. T. White head Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mother Gray
Mother Gray Company
Leltoy, N. Y
Sullivan Street
Claremont
Foley
E. T. Whitehead Company
Alvin H. Stimpson
Willimantic
Conn
National Dames Biennial Session Ticket Details May 1911
Washington D C and return via Atlantic Coast Line offered for the National Association of Colonial Dames biennial session in Washington May 6 to 9 with tickets on sale May 3 to 4. Return limit May 12 with 50 cent deposit and payment to a Special Agent at 1419 New York Avenue NW.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Association of Colonial Dames
Washington
New York Avenue
N. W
W. J. Crate
Also Mentioned on This Page
Cardus
Sallie H. Blair
Johnson City
Tenn
Pontbiquet
Mme. Pontbiquet
le Figaro
Kansas City Journal
Chicago News
Solomon
Micago News
Hardy Manning
B. C. Hamlet
Tarrapin
N.C
Geo. N. Mumphord
Tillery
Bobby
Lippincott’s
E. T. Whitehead Co
Southwestern
Henry Grady
Weell
Prohibitionist
E.T. Whitehead & Co
John Riha
Vining, In
Bucklen
Chas. F. Budahn
California
G. Williams
Powderly
Texas
New England
Washington, D. C
Atlantic Coast Line
Ayer
J.C. Ayer Co
Lowell
Rocky Mountain
The
South Bend Watch
South Bend
A _saenese
E. T. Whitehead & Company
Chas
Miller Walsh
Quarrier and Manufacturer
Petersburg
JY. Savage
Scotland Neck
Cooper Marble Works
Bank Street
Norfolk
Virginia
United States
Tislature
Virgil
Richmond, Vigo
Atlanta
Cor Journal
Atlesia
Ags
P.O
E. T. White
Braycow
Main Street
Dr.Mizes
Daley
Yee
Thiet
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