Health tips and ads mix in crowded 1890s page
A collage of consumer pleas and pitying anecdotes fills the page. Advertisers tout Lydia E Pinkham remedies Parker's Hair Balsam and Magnetic Starch while medical quackery sells cures for teething pain and wind colic. Public notices include London deaths and a call to readers to request religious literature.
Beware of Mercury Ointments for Catarrh
Mercury ointments for catarrh are warned against as dangerous. The ad notes internal use harming smell and body, claims Toledo Ohio maker F J Cheney Co, and promotes magnetic starch and nerve tonic products. It targets busy men with trial offers and promotional claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Cheney &Co
Man and Machine Health Through Strict Cleanliness
A historical notice urges absolute cleanliness and proper regulation of the human body as essential to its proper function. It warns that a small fault can clog the whole mechanical system and hamper health, calling for prompt attention to any imbalance or ailment.
Noted Judge Saved by Peruna Lectures on Catarrh
A Hartman Sanitarim book promotes Peruna as the universal cure and preventive for catarrh and la grippe. It touts seven lectures by Dr. Hartman from Columbus Ohio, urging all families to obtain the remedy to guard against colds and catarrh.
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Rec
E. W. Grove
Peruna
Hartman Sanitarim
Hartman
Columbus
Ohio
Geo. Kersten
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Parker
Cleveland
London
Walter Baker & 5S. Ltd
Dorchester
Masa
Malled
H. D. Reed
N. 38Th Ave
Omaha
Neb
Dr. Ditne
St. Jacobs
Peruma
George Kersten
Chicago