Statesville editor recounts railroad wreck heroics and injuries
Editorial correspondent Randall Pope describes the Statesville crash where Col. Cameron freed him from wreckage and others perished or were wounded. Pope details deaths aboard the sleeper, the long wait for relief, and his own recovery hopes while praising neighbors and rescuers.
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Cameron
Col. Cameron
Mrs. Poole
Williamston
Miss Moore
Reteorisas
Mrs. Moore
Statesville
Abbott's East India Corn Paint Claims Quick Corn Removal
A historical regional ad promotes Abbott's East India Corn Paint as a painless remedy that removes corns bunions and warts rapidly.
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Abbott
Bingham School Relocated to Asheville For Sale of Property
The Bingham School is moved to Asheville North Carolina for private reasons. The owner offers the school property including barracks recitation rooms mess hall furniture residences baths orchards and 350 acres of land. Over $30 000 spent on improvements. Sold at greatly reduced price. Address Mrs Wu Bincham Bingham School NC.
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Bingham
Asheville
N. C
Richmond
Danville
Wu. Bincham
Bingham School
Lemon Elixir and labor saving cradle ad
A dated advertisement touts Dr H Mozley Lemon Elixir for biliousness fever chills malaria and digestive ailments with claims of liver stomach kidney and bowel remedies and prices 50c to 1 00. It also promotes a self rocking cradle spanker and clothes wringer for mothers claiming it can spank up to five babies at once with a single drop of a baby into a slot.
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Mozley
H. Mozley
Atlanta
N. Y
Another Cure for Rheumatism
A patient from Lake City Florida suffering six years with rheumatism writes of dramatic improvement after three bottles of P P P Prickly Ash Poke Root and Potassium. He reports leg and foot swelling reduced and ability to resume work and expects continued recovery at age sixty one.
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Lake City
Fla
A. C. Lana
Poancka Female College Opens Thirty-Third Session
Poancka Female College at Danville Virginia announces the thirty-third annual session opens September 2. The college offers high scholarship in ancient and modern languages sciences music and art with free hand drawing calisthenics and elocution. Terms are very moderate. Catalogue available from J T Averett president and J C C Dunford assistant president.
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South
J.T. Averett
J.C. C. Dunford
Buckten's Arnica Salve Guaranteed Satisfactory
An 19th century advertisement offers Buckten's Arnica Salve as a universal cure for cuts bruises sores ulcers and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. The ad lists price at 25 cents and notes sale by John Y. MacRae.
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Vox
John Y. MacRae
P. P. P. endorsed for blood cleansing and healing claims
A leading New York physician and a Savannah railway figure tout P P P as effective against blood diseases and syphilis injuries. The ad claims P P P purifies blood, relieves inflammatory and scrofulous conditions, and cures old sores, eruptions, and pain through Prickly Ash Poke Root and Potassium formula.
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Yeiane
New York
Savannah
P. P. PY
South
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