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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1901
Page
4
A vintage advertisement touts Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a cure for chronic womanly diseases unresolved by local doctors. It claims to restore monthly regularity reduce debility and heal inflammation and ulceration. Also promotes Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets for biliary concerns.
Vintage advertisement text promoting De Wu's Little Early Risers liver pills and garden syrup products. Includes claims of efficacy, agent solicitations for Galveston and Chicago, book promotion The Horrors of a Stricken City, and various product placements with prices and commissions.
3ONA SIDE SALARY, $12 Weekly Men and women to appoint represent at, some to travel, eilces for real work. '$12 weekly salary and ex parses, Od established house, pleasant Permanent positions, rapd advancement tend increase of wages. Write at once. Address BUTLER & ALGER. SEEP E. New Haven WANTED.-Active managood character to deliver and cellet im Ce chise Cousty for old established i factoring wholesale house. $970 a year sure pay. Honesty more than experi ence required. Car reference, any 0% B any city. Enclose self-addressed tamped envelope. Manufacturers, Tori Foor 334 Dearworm St. Chicago
A garbled OCR fragment references a Warren Street address and stray phrases about cats, dragons, and a poetry or diary fragment. The readable bits offer no clear event, dates, or names to establish a cohesive news item or summary.
Rav Elliott to hold regular services at the Episcopal church tomorrow. Rev T C Mofitt, a Tombstone visitor from Biebes, may return over Sunday. Copper production for 1909 estimated at 603,000,000 pounds of face copper. The largest consolidated gold fund in the world located in the United States Treasury, totaling $479,248,250. Local items include drugstore promotions, festival preparations, and notices of obituaries and staff changes.
A Cleveland World teaser purports to show January 1 2081 coverage with a mix of sensational tales. It mentions a bandit robbed air ship, a frozen messenger death, ruined Cincinnati finds barrels of foul smelling beer, and notes miners’ plans as a distant, dreamlike glimpse into future daily life.
A salve advertised as the best healer extends claims worldwide and sells for 25 cents at Tombstone Pharmacy. The Range News reports Jas Nue pan resigned from the superintendent role and returned to Ci lia for a more lucrative position. Frank J Cheyney swears as senior partner of Cheyney Co regarding Hall’s Catarrh Cure. A meat inspection condemns and destroys tainted meat. warrant issued for Smith’s arrest in Gazette.
Report from ENGLISH and WA King travelers returning from the Black Diamond Company in the Dragoone describes rapid development work. A large workforce under Supt. John Henry operates day and night. Exorbitant high grade sulphide ore extracted while a lower tunnel nears the main ore body, promising 500 feet of depth. Macy introduces improvements to speed ore handling and provide employee conveniences.
A town note credits Dr. King's New Discovery for curing a family plagued by grip and throat ailments. The editor, Chris Reitter, recalls using the remedy after doctors failed. The ad claims a guaranteed cure for La Grippe with trials offered at Tombstone Pharmacy, priced 50 cents to 1 dollar.
General delivery letters listed for December 31 1900 include Jane Dugan Dolores Hara Marcos Herrera JT Hughes J Meyer Hey J B McCay WG McCreary Mra Lelu Ste Leod Micuel Morrista Joe Suthertend. Advertised notice from postmaster L G Cassis requests the recipients call and cite the advertised date.
An advertisement touts Mother’s Favorite Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as safe for children and effective for coughs colds croup and whooping cough. It claims no opium or injurious drug and says it can be given confidently to a baby or adult. Sold by Tombstone Pharmacy.
Posed as a health advertisement, the copy prompts readers to assess their vitality and weight, contrasts not-quite health with health, and touts cod liver oil emulsion as a path to stronger appetite and sustained nourishment, inviting readers to request a trial.
An ad extols Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a fifty year old remedy for teething pain in children. It claims to soothe gums ease pain cure wind colic and diarrhoea with a pleasant taste and a five cent bottle sold by druggists worldwide. The copy urges buyers to ask for the product.
Advertisements claim Syrup of Figs permanently overcomes habit constipation and warns buyers away from temporary laxatives. Promotes the genuine product made by the California Fig Syrup Co and a medical liquor offering at a local pharmacy in Tombstone.
Inspector Wm Spords lists cattle shipments from Willcox and firms including Chiricahua Cattle Company at Salford Fort Apache and El Paso. Entries show 243 head shipped January 10 and other consignments from McComick, Cook & Ma ves, and Riggs with various destinations in Texas and Arizona.
An 19th century style advertisement touts Electric Thivers as a cure for kidney pain headaches sleeplessness and constipation and claims a Mrs Phebe Chatiry was cured. It also extols One Minute Cough Cure for croup and lung troubles and references Tombstone Pharmacy as the seller.
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