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Newspaper
Wilson News
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1899
Page
5
The Wilson tobacco market saw strong activity with about 300000 pounds sold on Friday and overall week sales surpassing one million pounds. Local farmers will continue selling in Wilson as leaf prices remain favorable.
A four year old boy playing near Lucama was seized by a black man who fled with him. A citizen posse pursued through fields and woods until the child was found unharmed in a patch of woods. The incident remains a mystery with no injuries reported.
An old advertisement extols Sarsaparilla as a one ton blood purifier and great nerve stomach regulator. It claims vast merit and wide-known effectiveness.
Capt. William Astor Chanler leads the New York Star as president and advertises a forty dollar bicycle daily. The board includes Amos J. Cummings Asa Bird Gardner ex Governor Hogg and Fred Feigl among many well known names.
An advertisement extols S. S. S. as the only remedy that fully cures scrofula, claiming it reaches the disease at its source and noting cases such as H. E. Thompson of Milledgeville who allegedly improved after taking a few bottles and was permanently cured, contrasting with ineffective tonics and other purifiers.
An advertorial claims S. S. S. cures deep seated blood diseases without tonics. It guarantees vegetable ingredients and lists conditions like scrofula eczema cancer rheumatism contagious blood poison boils and ulcers. Free books on blood and skin diseases are mailed by the Swift Specific Company of Atlanta Georgia.
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