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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1842
Page
4
The directions prescribe doses for adults children and infants with a history of the medicine and its inventor. Price is three and one third six dollars per half ounce. Geo. Howard Tarboro advertises a fresh supply of the medicine in August 1840.
In Edgecombe County North Carolina the February term 184? Crime and Pleas docket lists Warren Waller and wife Caty et al as parties in a suit. The record notes the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions proceedings for the period.
Sherman’s lozenges claim quick relief for nervous headaches, coughs, and various ailments. They tout revival during travel and after dissipation, plus worm lozenges proven in 400000 cases. The ad promotes Sherman’s Poor Maws Plaster for back pain and rheumatism, with low price and fast affids. Advertised by Geo Howard in Tarboro dated Feb 23.
Advertises Dr Evans Celebrated Soothing Syrup as a cure for teething pain and convulsions in infants. Claims rub on gums opens pores easing pain and preventing fevers, with anecdotal testimony from a parent. Cautions buyers to obtain from 100 Chatham St New York or M Russell Elizabeth City, dated January 14.
An advertisement extols Dr Harrells Tomato and Slippery Elm Pills as superior among family medicines. It claims broad healing reach for fevers liver ailments jaundice headaches loss of appetite costiveness female complaints and blood purification with notable cures cited from residents of North Carolina and Virginia. The piece lists numerous agents and distributors across North Carolina Virginia and beyond and notes the date Sept 21.
GEO HOWARD of Tarboro lists a wide array of Thompsonian medicines for sale including Lovelia seeds and powder, Nerve Powder, Poplar Bark, African Bird Pepper, Bayberry, Skunk Cabbage, wake robin, Kalsam Fir, Butternut syrup, Balmony, Green Ozier, Myrrh, Unicorn Root, Ginger, Golden Seal, Clivers, Punil Lilly, Hemlock, Witch Harle, Cough powders, Raspberry leaves, Prickly ash, Slippery elm, Barberry, Cholera and Dysentery Syrup, Rheumatic Tincture, Woman's Friend, Strengthening Plaster No 6, Thompson's Guide and Narrative, Robinson's Lectures, Syringes and related items. Published in Tarboro on November 9.
Mofefats Vegetable Life Pills and Phenix Bitters are advertised as infallible remedies for dyspepsia and a wide range of ailments. The text claims they cleanse the stomachs, promote healthy bile flow, relieve flatulence, heartburn, headaches, and nervous symptoms, and cure fevers, rheumatism, gout, dropsy, worms, asthma, consumption, scurvy, ulcers, and various skin issues. It touts a quick cure for common colds, piles, and improves skin clarity, citing a New York origin story and urging adherence to directions. The dealer GEO. HOWARD, Tarboro, VA, March 5, 1842.
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