Brandreth's Pills Promote Purity of Blood and Health
A 1842 advertisement extols Brandreth's Pills as purifiers of the blood, claiming impurities cause fevers, dysentery, rheumatism, and many ailments. It asserts pills evacuate bowels, prevent or cure diseases, aid healing after injuries, and restore health by cleansing the blood. Agents are listed, including R. Hazlewood and George Howard in Tarboro, March 25, 1842.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brandreth
Dr. Brandreth
B. Brandreth
M.D. R. Hazlewood
Travag
Geu. Howard
Tarboro
A. C. Howard Announces Fresh Millinery Stock
A. C. Howard informs friends of a fresh supply of caps and bonnets for the season, including silks satins and ribbons. New well browned site patterns for dresses arrive. Dec 3, 184.
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A.C. Howard
Reward for runaway enslaved man in Belgecombe County North Carolina
Abner Tison offers a reward for the capture of an enslaved man named Janie, about thirty years old, dark complexion, six feet tall, missing tooth, with ears pierced, last seen near Oak Grove. He weighs around two hundred pounds and is believed to be in Part county. The notice warns against harboring and promises a reward to anyone who apprehends him and returns him to Mr. Tison near Oak Grove, Belgecombe County, North Carolina, dated February 24, 1541.
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Martin County
Roderick Purvis
Levi Howell
Halifax County
Reuben S. Manning
Ranaway
Janie
Daniel
Part
Ali
Oak Grove
Belgecombe County
N.C
Peters Pills Universal Medicine For Many Ailments
Peters Pills are praised as a universal medical restorative with broad cures. The text claims anti bilious, antidyspeptic, and antimercurial properties and lists numerous conditions from fevers to digestive complaints. A fresh supply is sold by Geo Noward, Turborne, Feb 28.
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Geo. Noward
Turborne
Evans Camomile Pills advertised cure all nervous debility
An 1830s sales pitch extols Evans Camomile Pills as a vegetable tonic for general debility, nervous anxiety, hypochondriasis, and a long list of ailments from indigestion to gout. It cites a testimonial from Jonas Snyder and notes distribution through agents in multiple cities, urging purchase at 100 Chatham Street New York and other outlets.
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New York
Targiver
D. Battle
Battle & Brothers
Rocky Mount
America
Evans
Chatham St
Jonas Snyder
Kernesville
William Evans
Hunt
Goode
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Boston
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