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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1896
Page
7
An old advertisement touts a salve for skin issues including sores eruptions and boils. It claims guaranteed satisfaction with money back, selling at 25 cents per box through S Kingston.
The Velasco Texas advertisement touts rich fruit growing farming hunting and fishing, claiming Velasco offers the best and cheapest fruit cotton cane corn rice and vegetables globally. It highlights three crops of vegetables per year, sea air health benefits, and Velasco as a free port of entry where goods may enter untaxed. The ad cites the Adiana Commercial Club in Velasco Texas.
News items include a 450,000 damage suit against Keeley Cure Co of Dwight, coal mine machinery at Moncoagua, a cowl shaft planned at Paisley, and a fatal blast near Sparta. Local mischief includes a purse theft in Gillespie and a prohibition ordinance in Oakland. Social notes cover Wells cleanup in Lebanon, Hood’s Sarsaparilla ads, and Electric Bitters endorsements.
A local store advertises a 15 percent reduction on all blankets wool underwear wool hose red and white wool flannels teatfi and heavy gloves for the next thirty days.
A fragment from a periodical links order and discipline to daily life. It promotes Hood's Pills as a mild remedy avoiding drastic drugs and claims benefits for colds digestion and liver regulation. An ad notes pianos and organs for sale by G Letman in St Louis with cash or installment terms and mentions a weekly Call subscription.
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