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Newspaper
Windham County Reformer
Location
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1896
Page
6
A fragmented ad style text touts health benefits of a California manufactured laxative and other remedies. It markets internal cleanliness and general wellness, claiming wide family use and exclusive sales. The piece reads like an old period advertisement with emphasis on health claims and non-specified products.
Fragmentary OCR recalls Mystic Cire or ved Lika Day claims of a radical cure. Mentions product by EB Green, a drogist, Rahat, and references to power, cause, and disappearance of illness. Details are unclear and sourcing is incomplete.
A Kentucky business man afflicted with LaGrippe found relief through Dr Miles Nervine. After months of sickness he regained appetite strength and energy. The treatment restored his health enabling a return to work and daily duties.
A garbled report describes a deadly incident involving telegraph and power lines. The wounded and dead are referenced with scattered names and locations in a chaotic account, noting a fatality and a rescue attempt at a yard where children played.
The fragment mentions Heuatr GM Barber a Wardatiory buawit or pevaind youre in Le prartive af Maw at AT iingtonynan Torment a prartuicryiy with tuheo TW Dariing of Bennington and references to Howland Ropinaon and J foot author. It notes weather related topics including a Feb 2 test and a cold wind effect.
Fragmented notes describe Vermont political activity, local officials, and upcoming events. Mentions include names like Seely, Ware, Dyer, and Walker, with references to governors and regional towns. The text indicates campaign intrigue, appointments, and public notices across numerous towns.
A sprawling Vermont era page mixes veteran tributes with civic notices, including New England figures and state organizations. Veterans events in Boston and Vermont highlight the time, with names like Governor Urban Woodbury and Laoute Walcott present. Obits and biographical sketches mix with local society notes and public notices demanding attention.
In a brief notice a druggist promotes Beecham's pills for constipation with a call to “Get the book at your druggist's and go by it.” The fragment also references a road campaign and includes garbled text signaling a generic sales pitch.
An old plea to buy Dr David Kennedys Favorite Jor claiming to restore health. It alleges relief for insomnia, nervous trouble, headaches, dyspepsia, feverish symptoms, and various unspecified ailments with claims of universal cure through a patent preparation. The language warns of various medical benefits and references to multiple ailments in broad terms.
In New York the Republican committee protests the Platt machine enrollment as a Tammany attachment. Barre residents react as local leaders weigh the situation while Trinity College notes a campus visit by Dranel Hugh Verdine of Retinnit.
A dubious patent remedy claim, Smiths Rheumatic Cure, is advertised with dramatic language alleging it neutralizes uric acid and dissolves neuralgia, lumbago and other joint disorders. The text urges readers to use the product to avoid permanent disability and death, implying swift, permanent cure.
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