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Newspaper
The Watchman
Location
Danville, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1822
Page
4
The Subscribers announce a superb assortment laid in on advantageous terms to be sold low for cash or produce. It includes chintzes, crimps, silks, shawls, muslins, laces, robes, cambrics, bonnets, straw hats, lawns, calicoes and more. The display features fashionable, elegant goods for female attire at unusually low prices.
List describes wide range of fabrics and notions including cassimeres silk and cotton stockings ribbons handkerchiefs shawls flags and dresses plus domestic linens hardware knives forks hinges iron spades nails and more. Names Crawley and English steel cited among items.
A dense list of groceries and household goods including Queensware Liverpool ware glassware sugars molasses brandy Madeira Lisbon Malaga whiskey coffee chocolate Hyson tea various spices pepper alspice ginger nutmegs cloves mustard cinnamon gunpowder shot tobacco snuff writing paper and related items appears as a brief commercial notice.
A large quantity of Prime Herring caught this season inspected and recommended by the Maryland brand. Mackrel No. 3 and a quantity of Mackrel No. 1, SHAD, on the way from Columbia and expected in a few days. Prices for fish listed by barrel with Herring, Mackrel No. 1, No. 3, and Shad noted.
A new catechism titled Mears' Catechism Revised and recommended by the Presbytery of Antrim is for sale at the Watchman office. Price is two shillings and sixpence, dated June 26, 1822.
All persons indebted to the estate of George M Eown deceased of Greenwood township are required to meet the subscribers on the first Friday in August at the decedents office and each Friday thereafter until the docket is settled. Those with demands against the estate should present them legally attested at the deceaseds office.
Dr Wm Woods announces summer residence at John Gearhart Jr house in Rush township Northumberland county to treat rheumatic and chronic diseases. He claims to relieve afflicted by a practice known only to him with many certificates of cures. He also practices medicine and surgery.
The fragment notes a pledge to give utmost attention to those who employ him, signaling a focused approach to client care and professional dedication.
A historical advertisement asserts Dr Wood's ointment cures rheumatic and bone complaints including cripples and stiff joints. Endorsements claim dramatic recoveries by petitioning physicians in 1818 to 1822, with sworn statements from Vader, Searle, Atherton, Hughes and local justices in Pennsylvania New York and Luzerne County.
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