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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1842
Page
4
An 1842 advertisement extols Brandreth's Pills as restoring health by purifying blood. It links disease to impurities, claims pills evacuate bowels to remove humors, and asserts benefits for fevers, dysentery, rashes, ulcers, fractures, and chronic ailments. It urges daily use after injury and notes agents in every county with signed certificates.
Sherman’s remedies claim immediate relief for nervous and sick headaches, palpitations, despondency, throat infections, cholera, diarrhea, and fatigue. They tout reviving effects for travelers and partygoers, purport wide certifications, and promote Sherman's Worm Lozenges as a cure for worms. Also advertised are Sherman’s Poor Man’s Plaster as a strengthening, pain reliever, with Geo Howard as agent in Tarboro on Feb 23.
An advertisement extols Dr William Evans celebrated Soothing Syrup as a cure for teething distress. It claims to prevent convulsions fever and death by rubbing the gums with the syrup from four months old. It includes a testimonial letter and a caution to buy only from specified addresses in New York Tarboro and Elizabeth City dated January 14.
An advertisement extols Dr. Harrell's Tomato and Slippery Bla Pills as superior to other medicines. It describes wide range uses from fevers and jaundice to digestive and female complaints, praises their purgative and tonic effects, and lists numerous testimonials from individuals across Pasquotank and surrounding counties. Prices are stated at 50 cents per box and 54 per gross, with orders directed to Dr. A. Harrell of Elizabeth City, NC.
A compiled roster of agents and firms across North Carolina and Virginia with locations including Norfolk Portsmouth Edenton Plymouth Hertford Tyrrel Halifax Newbern Raleigh Ocracoke Windsor and Windsor names such as Buff and Co. Fessenden Webb and Capehart and Mason appear among the regional representatives. The date given is September 21.
Tarboro Nov 9. The advertiser lists Thompsonian medicines including Lovelia Wake robin Cough powders and Cholera syrup. Also mentions Thompson's Guide Robinson's Lectures syringes and related items for sale on reasonable terms.
A 1842 Tarboro notice extols Vegetable Life Pills as restoring vitality by purifying the blood and humors. It claims cures for dyspepsia, constipation, diarrhea, fevers, rheumatism, dropsy, worms, asthma, scrofula, and colds, and recounts the inventor’s lifelong struggle before success. The ad urges strict adherence to directions and offers testimonials through GEO. HOWARD of Tarboro.
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