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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1899
Page
8
A newspaper brief touts One Minute Cough Cure from Matthews Pharmacy as a cure for pneumonia grippe coughs colds croup and whooping cough warning it can save a doctor's bill or the undertaker's.
Advertisement extols Dr. King’s New Life Pills for restoring digestive health and boosting energy. Claims remarkable vigor follows use, citing stomach liver kidneys and bowels as improved. Available for 25 cents at Romig Bros. 2-4.
Working Night And Day the busiest little thing Dr King New Life Pills are sugar coated. They claim to turn weakness into strength and energy into mental power with 25 cents a box. Romig Bros sells them and offers money back if not cured.
Prominent Hannibal citizen J E Lilly recounts a near fatal battle with typhoid fever and pneumonia. He credits Dr King’s New Discovery for rapid relief after one bottle, continuing use restoring health. Sold at Romig Bros with trial bottles free.
Advertises a claimed third dose cure for sore throat from Matthews' Pharmacy using terms like new discovery and wonder remedy. Mentions gargies and liniments as older treatments and pitches the new treatment as superior.
A dense ad page touts Dr Kings New Life Pills for appetite and digestion with 25c pricing at Romig Bros. It highlights Dr King s New Discovery for coughs and lungs with trials and guarantees, plus reviews from Ada E Hart and Annie Springer. Also promotes DeWitts Little Early Risers and Shiloh s cough remedies, all sold by Matthews pharmacy.
Property marketed by F. H. Goopman offers 820 acre ranch four miles from Townsend with 120 acres alfalfa. Features include good water rights and sale on reasonable terms at a low figure.
Frightful blunder causes burns cuts and bruises says Romig Bros. Arnica Salve kills pain and heals promptly. Claims to cure old sores fever sores ulcers boils felons skin eruptions and piles. Priced at 25 cents.
After doctors warned of death from a rectal fistula, Renick Hamilton of West Jefferson Ohio spent 18 months in pain. He reportedly cured himself using Bucklen's Arnica Salve, buying five boxes at 26 cents each, marketed as a universal pile cure. Sold by Romig Bros.
The proprietors of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds report gifting over ten million trial bottles. They claim it has cured thousands of hopeless cases of asthma bronchitis hoarseness and lung diseases. Romig Bros offer a free trial bottle with the regular 50cc bottle priced at $1 and a guarantee or refund.
Dr. D B Cargile of Wichita I T reports four bottles of Electric Bitters cured Mrs. Brewer who suffered from scrofula with head and facial sores after other doctors failed. The ad claims the remedy purifies blood, treats eczema and related ailments, stimulates organs, expels poisons, aids digestion, and builds strength. Sold by Romig Bros for 50c.
Mrs. Michael Curtain of Plainfield Illinois fell ill with a lung condition described as consumption by her doctor after a month of treatment. A druggist recommended Dr King's New Discovery and six bottles restored her health enabling her to do housework again. Free trials and large bottles priced at 50 cents and 1.00 are offered by Romig Bros.
An old ad touts a Dodge’s sore throat cure claiming effectiveness in all forms with a third dose cure, marketed by Matthews’ Pharmacy. It reflects period medical advertising and local drugstore promotion.
Mrs. Luther Lutz of Shelby North Carolina attributes a seven year struggle with disease to recovery after using Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption. She slept through the night after the first dose and was cured after two bottles. Trial bottles free at Romig Bros. Regular sizes 15c and 1.00 guaranteed.
In every case of sore throat where Dodge's sore throat cure has been used the third dose cured. Sent post paid on receipt of 50 cents. Matthews' Pharmacy Townsend Montana.
The National Land List is touted as the genuine real estate paper published in America with nationwide circulation. It promises bargains and offers of land, merchandise, or property exchanges and notes single copies by mail for 10 cents from The National Land List Publishing Co. Green Ridge Missouri.
Advertisement style note listing Bucklen arnica salve for skin eruptions and other sores, DeWitt’s pills for bowel regulation, Dewitt’s Witch Hazel salve for piles, and One Minute Cough Cure praised by J D Bridge with Matthew’s Pharmacy. Includes prices and endorsements.
Valley Lodge No 21 A F and A M meets every fourth Saturday in P C Hall visiting brothers welcome W H McKinenar WM Dx G W Grawam Secy Woodmen of World Townsend Cam 365 meets first and third of each month G E Poot Consul Commander L S Robinson Clerk
North Star Lodge No 19 I O F meets Mondays at 7 o, clock in P G Hall. Visitors welcome. N G B S Coan and C S Rome announce. O E 8 meets every 2nd Saturday in Masonic Hall. Visiting members invited. Master Grim W M and Secretary Townsend Montana sign.
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