Old advertisements from newspapers in West Tennessee. I will be adding more news clips to this category as I come across them.
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Smith & Smith, Attorneys at Law
Peyton J Smith & Sherrod Smith Attorneys at Law Law Office, East Side Public Square over McNeely’s drug store.
Snake Oil Advertisements
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Snake Oil: The discoverer of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. The great woman’s remedy for woman’s ills. No other medicine in the world has received such widespread and unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of female troubles or such hosts of grateful ...
The Louisville and Memphis Line
The Louisville and Memphis Line Western Division The Only Line Running Solid Trains between Louisville and Memphis, with Pullman Buffet Sleeping Cars from and to Louisville, Memphis, Vicksburg and New Orleans, via Memphis. The line is thoroughly equipped, and in first class condition, and provides between Louisville and Memphis a double daily service with parlor cars on ...
Two Train Advertisement and an Insurance Advertisement
Below are train advertisements and an insurance advertisement clipped from The Milan Exchange and Bolivar Bulletin. No Change of CarsMemphis to Texas One of the great advantages of going to Texas via the Cotton Belt is that you avoid the annoyances and discomforts of changing cars, necessary on other routes. The Cotton Belt trains are the only ones ...
US Government Warns Farmers About Disease Caused by Rats
US Government Warns Farmers About Disease Caused by Rats: They carry Bubonic plague, fatal to human beings. They carry foot and mouth disease which is fatal to stock. They kill chickens, eat grain, cause destruction of property. If you have rats Rat-Snap will kill them. Cremates rats after killing them ...
White’s Cream
White’s Cream Vermifuge was used by many of our pioneers. They were in business for over twenty years and they were one of the leading sellers of worm remedies. For 20 years White’s Cream has led all worm remedies. Sold by all druggists. Prepared by James F. Ballard, St. Louis For sale by ...
Worms
WORMS. Children suffering from these destructable parasytes can’t be relieved by so-called worm lozengers which only tickle the palate. The time-tried tested cure is B. A. Fahnestock’s Vermifuge. As you value the life of your child, don’t wait until spasms and incurable sickness seize it, but get this reliable remedy at once; it never fails. Bolivar Bulletin 29 Mar 1889, Fri