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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1844
Page
4
A cure advertised for ague fever and bilious disorders with praise from physicians. Claims rapid relief on first day, with improved digestion, strength, and appetite. Pills are vegetable, 20 doses per box, price one dollar. Apply to Geo Howard Avent Tarboro.
A Talladega Springs merchant testifies after years of illness that Beckwith Peters and other pills failed to help, but Dr Spencer's Vegetable pills provided clear relief. He urges families to keep a supply, calling the medicine invaluable and unprecedented in modern medical history. Isaac M. Thomas endorses the pills and grateful for their distribution.
A local notice announces fresh supplies of tin ware manufactured at Washington and available in Tarboro. It lists coffee pots, measures, funnels, pans, skimmers, dippers, cups, pails, milk strainers, water ladles, horns, lanterns, scoops, cake cutters, candlesticks, pepper boxes, graters and more. The advertiser GEO Foward invites orders for gutters and other metalware and promises prompt attention.
The advertisement touts Oil of Tannin as a chemical discovery that revives worn leather. It claims to restore softness, moisture, strength, and polish, making leather water impervious and even surpassing new leather. Sold in Tarboro by Geo. Howard, with Comstock & Co. signature.
A letter from C. B. Hassell of Williamston North Carolina lauds Dr John Sappington’s Anti Fever Pills as a near perfect remedy for fevers and bilious disorders. The letter recounts agents selling hundreds of boxes in 1840 41 and urges others to obtain the pills, claiming high cure rates when used as directed. It lists sellers Geo Howard Warboro C B Hassell Williamston and Joseph Waldo Hamilton with dates 1842 1843.
An 1843 advertisement touts Kolmstock's Vermifuge as a universal cure to purge worms from children and adults. It claims rapid relief, urges cautious purchase only with specific engraved labeling, and lists agents Geo Howard in Tarboro, Dr Gallagher in Raleigh, Dr Stith in Raleigh, and Comstock & Co. as sole agents. The piece emphasizes worm removal as the true illness cause and urges parental action.
The subscriber GEO HOWARD of Parhoro offers a quantity of cotton yarn in various counts for sale at reduced prices on reasonable terms. Sale notice dated June 24, 1844.
A 1843 Tarboro notice promoting Brandreth’s Pills as a mild purgative for all ages. It claims to avert sickness, relieve headaches and bilious symptoms, and strengthen both feeble and strong, with safety for children. Genuine boxes bear six signatures of Dr. Benjamin Brandreth across three labels, per this agent GEO Howard.
Comstock and Co of New York advertise MPHEse plasters as greatly improved and preferred by doctors for invalids with pains in the breast back or side. They claim rapid relief from weakness lameness and irritation from incipient consumption and liver complaints with cures in coughs colds and whooping cough in children. Sold in Raleigh by Dr. N. K. Stith and Washington by Dr. F Gallagher dated January 14 1543.
Fevale release notes how Dr Moffat receives letters from across the Union praising Life Pills and Phenix Bitters. Physicians sometimes recommend them and they are described as a universal family medicine for numerous ailments. The text extols their efficacy for liver and bilious complaints, headache, indigestion, dizziness, heartburn, loss of appetite, wind, and more, claiming superiority to prior offerings.
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