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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1898
Page
8
Frank Smith promotes subscriptions for The Record at W H Kingery Co Warsaw Indiana. Readers are urged to invite friends to subscribe and to buy old papers for house cleaning at 20 cents per hundred. Nickel Plate Road offers a low rate excursion to Chautauqua Lake on July 8.
J. J. Babcock offers free trial packages of Bacon's Cetery King for women with nervous disorders and constipation. The tonic is advertised as a regulator that cures biliousness indigestion skin eruptions and other blood diseases, with large sizes priced at 25 and 50 cents.
Advertises No-To-Bac as a guaranteed tobacco habit cure with claims of making weak men strong and blood pure priced at 50 cents and one dollar, available at all druggists.
An advertised salve promises to cure cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and other eruptions with a money back guarantee. Sold for 25 cents a box by I U Snoberger.
A letter from P. E. Butler of pack-train No 3 dated July 23 from Santiago de Cuba praises soldiers’ heroism and credits Chamberlain’s colic remedy with keeping an army supplied amid diarrhoea and illness. He recalls stocking medicine in Tampa before departure and notes four cases where it saved lives. The note promotes Chamberlain Medicine Co and a Des Moines retailer.
A German remedy called Otto's Cure is claimed to cure consumption if taken early. The text touts cures for asthma bronchitis croup coughs colds and pneumonia and notes sample bottles are given away by agent J J Babcock with large sizes priced at 25 and 50 cents.
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