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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1908
Page
6
Listing shows a wholesale and retail dealer offering bar iron nails horse shoes large iron wash kettles brass copper and porcelain kettles skillets walte irons trace butt cow and halver chains farm beds screen doors and windows American fence wire barbed wire saws black hawk corn shellers lawn mowers files bolts loaded shells powder and shot.
Claims that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound relieves suffering of women and avoids surgical operations, supported by testimonials and letters from women across communities. Describes plant-based ingredients and claims restoration of normal health, urging women to use the remedy for women’s illnesses.
A quirky account recalls the July 4 1776 signing of the Declaration and a sultry August day when flies disrupted Congress. It weaves in quotes about Tom Hood Sir Walter Raleigh and others, then shifts to a wartime line about consumption and a Foley’s Honey and Tar advertisement from Hill’s Pharmacy.
A lawyer cites a bias against curly haired men in juries, recalling that pampered youths grow up defiant. The piece moves through notices of remedies by Dr. Shoop and dental health ads, mentions railway whistle debates abroad, a Cedar View merchant praising Dr. King’s New Life Pills, and a joke about a boy asking questions to provoke his father.
A quirky column mixes nightly hair care advice urging two loose braids and mindful scalp care with a blunt self promotion for Dr. Shoop's Magic Ointment. It then shifts to a maritime anecdote about ambergris valued at $400 a pound found by sailors near San Francisco, tracing a £20,000 potential loss via the Antiope and a druggist identification, with the ship’s master John Mathieson cited.
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