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Newspaper
Washington Telegraph
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1859
Page
10
A fragmented column notes advertisement rates for small ads and warns prepayment rules. It references a Monday election and urges electors to choose good candidates, attributed to an agent of a corporation and an official, with unclear names.
The Worthington Times reports scarce money and hardship with promises of no collection despite property loss. It mentions a charity library rent issue, a large brick burning planned for summer, a community picnic for local youths, a Baptist protracted meeting, and thanks to the Liverpool Lodge for a dinner.
Weather outlook for Swamplands worsens with heavy rains and trapping doubts. Readers urged to settle year subscriptions as several accounts remain unpaid while a counterfeit note warning from New Orleans Ledger appears.
A long catalog of hardware items for sale including trace and leg chains, halter gear, hammers, hooks, saws, hoes, scythes, axes, nails, hollow ware, cookware, locking hardware, brushes, coffin hardware, cutlery, firearms trimmings, violins, cooper tools, meat safes, traps, pestles and presses. Also mentions agent for tools and gummer saws.
An advertisement touts Dr Easterly's Iodine and Sarsaparilla as a universal healer for scrofula pimples skin blemishes and chronic diseases including liver dyspepsia mercurial disease and venereal infections. It claims radical cures even for long standing cases and lists pricing and a regional distributor in Washington Indiana.
An advertisement touts Dr Easter Fever and Ague Killer as a rapid cure for fever types including ague chills and intermittent fevers. It claims over two hundred thousand cures in five years, promotes safety for infants, and lists price one dollar per bottle or five dollars for six. Prepared by Dr Masterly in St Louis with distribution through Wilson Jones in Washington Indiana.
An advertisement touts Dr Baker's specific as a guaranteed cure for gonorrhea and a range of genital and urinary ailments. It admonishes readers to avoid regular physicians and dubious quacks, promises plain use directions, and lists price and distributor details in St. Louis and Washington, Indiana.
An 19th century advertisement urges readers to use Dr Carter’s cough balsam for coughs colds asthma consumption and lung diseases. It claims rapid cures after physicians and other remedies fail and lists pricing and the supplier Dr Easterly Indianapolis and Chestnut streets.
A historical patent medicine advertisement claims Dr Hooper's Female Cordial cures menstrual irregularities and various female ailments including headaches, weakness, and cold symptoms. It markets a one dollar bottle price with six for six dollars and lists distribution by Wilson Jones in Washington, Indiana and other druggists.
A medicinal advertisement extols Dr Roback and the Scandinavian Blood Pills as a universal cure for scrofula and a wide range of ailments. It claims prompt relief for stomach liver nerves skin glands and muscles and promotes low cost per effective dose. The piece lists prices and places to buy including Cincinnati Ohio and various Indiana towns.
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