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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1840
Page
4
Co present offerings include Primitive Baptist volumes and concise history by Elder Jos. Biggs and Patriotic Discourse by Elder Joshua Lawrence. Also paper stock white pink straw colored, quills, cards, pencils, wrapping paper. Parhera April 25.
A Raleigh bookseller advertises a North Carolina legal compendium titled Justice, offering the complete edition of statutes and forms for public officers. Priced at three dollars with discounts for retailers, the publisher Turner and Tughes promotes the work as essential for officials and a clear digest for general readers. GEO Howird notes a few copies remain for sale.
A broad endorsement path outlines HeSe Pills as now highly used across the United States, Canadas, Texas, Mexico, and the West Indies. With 20,000+ certificates and 500+ from physicians, the pills are claimed to cure bilious fevers, headaches, liver issues, palsy, and many digestive ailments. A Hartford Insane Hospital physician and Yale connections back the medicine, with Mr Theodore James praising relief from fever and ague after two boxes. The pills, priced at 50 cents per box, are offered through the Park Place post office and printing office.
Samuel D. Procter announces removal to Tar borough near StG Knight's store on Cokey Road and offers making and repairing cotton gins. All orders will be promptly executed and out of order gins repaired expeditiously. Orders may be left at J C Knight, Esq. February 5.
Claims a wide range of curing powers for Life Pills and Phenix Bitters. Describes first removing impurities from stomach and bowels then cleansing kidneys liver and lungs. Cites extensive tests, notes Fever and Ague success, and urges readers to obtain Moffat's Medical Manual for further details.
New and splendid fall and winter millinery opens soon in Wisconsin. Mrs Howard advertises an extensive, carefully selected assortment of bonnets in Florence and Leghorn braids plus straw varieties, flowers, veils, collars, caps, curls, ribbons and more. Intended to attract inspection with emphasis on quality and price. November 9, 1839.
An old advertisement extols Dr Warrells Tomato and Slippery Elm Pills as superior among medicines. It claims cures for fevers liver complaints jaundice headaches loss of appetite and other ailments with various regional testimonials from Elizabeth City Pasquotank and neighboring towns. Pills priced 50 cents a box and 54 a gross with agents sought and orders directed to Dr A Warrell.
The list includes James M. Repmonp Tarboro Geo Howard B Emerson Norfolk W Fessenden Plymouth M S Berry Hertford Clayton Tyrrel H D Machen Washington N C Ss Marshall Halifax N C N B Hassell Webb Capehart Windsor W M Mason Raleigh S Small near Woodville S Hall Newbern and others in North Carolina and Virginia with a date of Sept 21 1939.
An 1840 promotional piece extols Brandreth's Pills as a universal purifier superior to mercury and sarsaparilla, claiming they cleanse the blood, ease inflammation, and cure diverse ailments from diabetes to dysentery. It stresses safety, easy use, and national acceptance, lists U S agents and offices, and notes each box includes an engraved coin signed Brandreth M D.
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