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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1841
Page
3
The Subscribers announce at their store on Sycamore Street a large assortment of pyques of superior quality from the manufactory of Messrs Numms and Clark.
Notice says will sell or lease several plantations and tracts totaling about 970 acres on Swill Creek and near the Halifax Raleigh road, plus town lots in Nashville with a two story dwelling, extensive outbuildings, and 150 rooms. terms for purchase or lease to be arranged on application to I N G Drake. Nashville, NC, November 6, 1840.
Abner Tison offers a ten dollar reward for the apprehension and confinement of a slave named Dante born in Pitt County North Carolina. Dante is about thirty four years old six feet tall dark complexion and a scar on one side of his mouth with part of an ear missing from a bite during a light altercation. He was raised in Pitt County and fled from the Sub -toher on July 27 1840. The notice warns against harboring the man under penalty of the law and directs delivery to Oak Grove Edgecombe County or confinement elsewhere until recaptured. The reward posted on July 24 1841 remains in effect.
A historical advertisement extols Evans Camomile Pills a vegetable tonic for nervous debility indigestion and various female and general ailments. It cites cures for hypochondriasis heart palpitations and weak nerves, and notes the pills’ introduction in America around 1535 with a long list of conditions they purportedly treat. The piece lists cautions to buy from authorized agents and provides locations in New York Boston Philadelphia and other towns.
An advert lists rapid relief claims for Dr Harrelds Nervine Lotion covering disorders from dyspepsia and asthma to neuralgia epilepsy sciatica hysterics spine disease cramps and various skin eruptions with promises of minutes to days to subdue symptoms and a near instant transition from pain to ease. The piece stresses observed evidence and asserts the medicine can treat many chronic and acute illnesses within human reach.
A dated medical notice describes cases treated by Dr Harrell of Elizabeth City and Tarboro. It claims rapid relief for limb injuries, chronic rheumatism, facial neuralgia, ringworm, and headaches after his methods, listing patients from Halifax NC Norfolk VA Psquotank NC and Elizabeth City along with his credentials and an agent listing for Geo. Howard in Tarboro.
Purporting to be medicine from WM. B. Moffat at 375 Broadway New York the Life Pills and Phenix Bitters claim exclusivity by a facsimile signature and offer prices 25 cents 50 cents and 1 dollar for Life Pills and 1 or 2 dollars for Phenix Bitters. An accompanying pamphlet Mofat's Medical Manual adds domestic health guidance and remedies signed by Wm. B. Moffat with agent Geo Hoard listed.
Advert shows Dr Peters Vegetable Pills as a life saving remedy praised across society. It extols cures for yellow fever dyspepsia croup liver complaints sick headache jaundice asthma dropsy rheumatism and many others. It claims mild action no nausea or griping and cites wide popularity with both regular doctors and the public. The pills are advertised as sold at the Post office and Printing office in Tarboro in March 1841.
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