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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1891
Page
3
Letters discuss railway delays and passenger inconveniences near Ashe and Waynesville. Local readers share frustrations with trains and depots. Advertisements include Hood’s Sarsaparilla claims and Ely’s Cream Balm testimonials plus a plater sales success story by William Evans.
A 19th century ad touts P. P. P. as the ideal spring remedy to combat malaise and spring ailments. It claims to tone invigorate strengthen and refresh the body, promising the best overall spring medicine for varied conditions.
An old advertisement touts P. P. P. Prickly Ash Root and Potassium as a cure for skin eruptions pimples ulcers and syphilis. The copy frames the remedy as a blessing and a path to health. It emphasizes the product name and its ingredients without clinical evidence.
An old ad extols P. P. P. as the greatest blood purifier and promotes Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup for coughs and colds, claiming popularity in the city. It also markets Salvation Oil for rheumatism and neuralgia, each priced at 25 cents.
Local shop advertises seeds including clover grasses and turnips with wholesale prices. It also promotes Best Life Insurance Company of New York highlighting reliability, security, and dividend benefits for insured customers. Also lists farm implements, engines, saw mills, a Pratt gin, and Nance power press for sale.
An advertising notice from Miller and Lindsay located in the Henry Building in front of the Postoffice Lock Box 373 offers policy cost estimates. It requests readers fill in blanks with amount age nearest birthday name and address to receive an estimate and a calendar.
The good will and entire outfit of the Gastonia Gazette are for sale. The sale includes an eight column Washington hand press, 400 to 500 pounds Bourgeois type, about 100 pounds Nonpareil, over sixty fonts of job type in various sizes, fifty or seventy five pounds tables, stones, rollers, a job press, and a paper cutter.
A complete Gastonia newspaper office is offered for sale as the editor, a teacher, seeks time for school.With 1,200 population, the county metropolis hosts mills and factories and expects a two hotel, bank, drug stores, and general stores economy. Price 1200 dollars. offer withdrawn by December 10. Contact WW Marshall, Editor, for sample copy or information.
Notice announces start of collection by M. W. Pugh Sheriff of Wake County Raleigh North Carolina beginning December 1. Dated November 20 1891.
A Fayetteville New York resident identifies himself as A Pemberton and endorses Prior’s Rheumatic Remedy. He states his family used the remedy with best results and recommends it to rheumatism sufferers, dated November 20, 1886.
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