Velasco Texas Commercial Club Ad Claims Free Port
An old call from Velasco Texas praises growing farming hunting fishing and diverse crops including fruit cotton cane corn rice and vegetables with two to three crops yearly and earlier seasons than California. It advertises Velasco as a free port for commerce and urges contact via Commercial Club Velasco Texas.
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Velasco
Texas
California
Mar‘het
Seqadr
Volsaco
Cantry
Valesco
Diphtheria, saloon license hikes, and local oddities
Diphtheria rages in Carlinville while Litchfield raises saloon licenses from 500 to 600. Virden school sees 129 February visitors. Peoria minors accept an 8 cent wage cut. a scammer named Smith sells bulbs that prove to be common exon drops. A minister’s daughter questions writing guidance, a Greenville divorce case reveals a witness’s blunt claim, and a Shelbyville man shoots through his wife’s bloomer after mistaking a burglar for the intruder.
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Litchfield
Virden
Greenville
Ile
Sayasha
Hood s Sarsaparilla and Hood s Pills Advertisement
Wonderful are the cures accomplished by Hood s Sarsaparilla and yet it is only because Atoad s Sarsaparilla the one true blood purifier makes pure rich healthy life giving blood Hood s Pills for the liver and bowels act easily yet promptly and efficiently 25¢.
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Hood
Atoad
How to Kill Troy and Undermine a Town
A fragmented 19th century admonition urges citizens to harm local progress by slandering the town, discouraging enterprise, and driving away trade. It counsels opposing organizations, dissolving local cooperation, and favoring outsiders while deriding community leaders and services.
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Tts
Discovery Saved His Life By Dr King’s New Discovery
Beaversvi druggist G Gaillouette reports a severe grippe case that baffled physicians until Doctor King’s New Discovery was used. After three bottles the patient recovered enough to be up and about. The store offers a free trial bottle at Kingaton’s Drug Store.
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G. Gaillouette
Beaversvi
Kingaton
Household Wrinkles From An Ancient Household Guide
The text offers practical tips from an old household manual including washing hair with cold sage tea, brightening alpaca with coffee, carpet cleaning with salt, making a cranberry drink, reusing bent whalebones after soaking, treating moths in feather beds by boiling and fluffing, and finishing potatoes by washing boiling then baking for whiter meatier results.
Farm Journal promotion in Weekly Call
A rural audience oriented ad lauds Farm Journal as the leading monthly paper with wide circulation from Maine to California. It invites readers to subscribe via the Weekly Call, offering a year’s copy to new subscribers and to current ones who settle arrears, with contact through the Captain’s office.
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United States
Maine
California
Montana
Florida
Farm Journal
Philadelphia
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Troy Post
Madison County
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boachider—Mies Enmms
Dennis Ryan
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Peoria
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Main
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Chris. Busse
Busse Bros
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ROY Lumber Yard
Troy Exchange Banks
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Julius Barth
Pron
Farmers’ Exchange
Troy, Ill
Indiana Bicycle Co
August Droll
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