Women Who Wear Well and the Care of Woman Health
An old style notice on marriage and health explains changes in appearance and temperament after marriage and motherhood. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a tonic for weak and sick women, claiming it restores vitality and fortitude with no alcohol or habit forming drugs. It notes use for nursing mothers and expectant mothers and provides Dr. Pierce's Buffalo address for consultation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ierce
Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Avalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo, N. Y
They Do Want Ads Pay
They claim WANT ADS pay and urge readers to use the column to buy trade or sell items. The ad promotes trying a want ad to reach buyers who seek items, noting readers repeatedly succeed and customers come to sellers through the column.
Foley's Honey and Tar Promised Quick Asthma Relief
Advertising claim from Lemmon's Pharmacy touts Foley's Honey and Tar as an immediate remedy for asthma coughs colds and throat and lung troubles claiming cures for cases resistant to other treatments with no harmful drugs involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
Lemmon's Pharmacy
The Day We Left Home for the War
Capt Kellogg recounts farewells at the depot as soldiers head to Cairo. Ike brings provisions and banter of John Brown’s body, while friends laugh and cry. The men oscillate between sobs and wild amusement, then settle for the journey ahead and a late night meal before marching into conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankie Bell
Tom Wilson
Tom
Ike
B'Gosh
Cairo
John Brown
Jack
Jack Kellogg
Local arrivals and visits in Muscatine area
Fay Bates and Homer Smith arrive from Keota, Col. D J Palmer leaves for Des Moines after a home visit, and Corinne Teuscher arrives from Keota. Kate Donovan heads to Minneapolis. Harry Anderson expected from Wyoming Ill.. W H Harding returns to West Chester. Several items note travel, visits, and a hospital transfer for Geo B Stapp in Columbus Junction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chautauqua
Thompson & Lathrop
Corinne Teuscher
Keota
Kate Donovan
Minneapolis
Minn
Harry Anderson
Wyoming
Ill
Crane Homes
W. H. Harding
West Chester
Blue
G. A. Smith
Brighton
Standard Land Co
Irma Daugherty
Columbus Junction
Peter McColl
E. E. Foshier
Harvey
Iowa
A. A. Sandy
Gregory
Mabel Stevenson
Fairfield
Sidney Anderson
Marguerite
W. H. Riley
Winfield
Rock Island
Geo. B. Stapp
Burlington
H. B. Hamilton
Ainsworth
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the Royal
Stuart & McCreedy
Postoffice
J. J. Kellogg
State of Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
J. Cheney & Co
Hall
A. D
A. W. Gleason
W. I. Cheney & Co
Fay Bates
Homer Smith
Col
D. J. Palmer
Des Moines
eSingen
Palace Bakery
G. W. Hill
Prop
Kingsford’s
Oswego
Kingsford
T. Kingsford & Son
N. Y
National Starch Co
Evening Journal
Washington
East Main ST
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