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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30 Feet of Bowels Cascarets Cleans
30 FEET OF BOWELS are packed away in your insides and must be kept clean, in order and doing business. It’s a long way, with many turns and pitfalls to catch the refuse and clog the channel if not most carefully cleaned out every day. When this long canal is blockaded, look out for trouble: furred tongue bad breath belching ...

A New Discovery for Dropsy
DROPSY: New Discovery; gives quick relief and cures worst cases. Book of testimonials and 10 days’ treatment Free Dr. H. H. Green’s Sons, Box D, Atlanta, GA Dropsy

Absolute Security Carter’s Little Liver Pills
Absolute Security – Genuine Carter’s Little Liver Pills – Must Bear Signature of Brent Good – See Fac-Simile Wrapper Below. Very small and as easy to take as sugar. Carter’s Little Liver Pills for headache, for dizziness, for biliousness, for torpid liver, for constipation, for sallow skin, for the complexion. Genuine; must have signature; purley vegetable; ...

Advertisement for Medical Remedies
Advertisement for La Creole ADVERTISEMENT FOR GRAY HAIRS: “La Creole” will restore those gray hairs. “La Creole” Hair restorer is a perfect dressing and restorer. Price $1.00 [Bolivar Bulletin, Bolivar, Tenn., La Creole will restore those gray hairs Advertisement for McGee’s Baby Elixier Guaranteed to Cure McGee’s baby elixir makes less babies fat. Sick babies ...
Attorney at Law Colin Bland
COLIN BLAND, having located in the town of Covington, respectfully tenders his professional services to the public. He will practice in the Courts of Shelby, Haywood, and Fayette Counties. And, will likewise attend with punctuality, the Supreme Courts of Law and Chancery in the town of Jackson. If diligence and attention to business ...

B. A. Fahnestocks Vermifuge
B. A. Fahnestocks Vermifuge: DON’T RUN THE RISK of losing your child by permitting Worms to work out its destruction. When a child fails to sleep well, is restless, unnatural in its appetite and grinds its teeth, you have strong indications of Worms; the positive cure for this is B. A. Fahnestock’s Vermifuge. Ask your ...

Blood Poison Advertisement
P with P BLOOD POISON: May mean “Poisoned with Potash.” this is the case with hundreds who have been unwise enough to take Sarsaparillas, Potash mixtures, etc., until digestion is almost fatally impaired. Swift’s Specific is a vegetable remedy, and restores the system to health and builds up the waste made by these ...

Bonny Blue Coal
When I was young an’ frivilis I was crazy for a flame name Cole, but speeriance done teached me dat the longest, hotest flame is Bonny Blue COAL PEOPLES COAL CO. “We Sell Good Coals” Church at I. C. Railroad Phone 76 The Jackson Sun, 10 Mar 1937, Wed

Boots, Baking Powder and Fans
Boots E. J. Mariner, Late of Tipton co., Tenn.; J. H. Curtis, Formerly with Foster & Alexander; Mariner & Curtis, Wholesale and retail dealers in BOOTS, Shoes and Hats, c. 219 Main Street, Under the Worsham House, Memphis, Tenn. Royal Baking Powder Royal Baking Powder, Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. ...

Brown’s Iron Bitters
BROWN’S IRON BITTERS Cures Indigestion, Biliousness, Dyspepsia, Malaria, Nervousness, and General Debility. Physicians recommend it. All dealers sell it. Genuine has trade mark and crossed red lines on wrapper. Bolivar Bulletin 29 Mar 1889, Fri

Brunswick
Brunswick Phonographs and Records Good Music at Home Brings Hearts Close Together Buy a Brunswick and be assured that your children will form an appreciation of really good music – a constant source of culture and wholesome pleasure all their lives. There must be some sound reason why so many leading musicians in both Europe and America have Brunswicks ...

Bucklen’s Arnica Salve
The best Salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Savage & ...

Campbell House
Campbell House Covington, Tenn. Mrs. M. D. Campbell, – Proprietress Polite servants, moderate charges, good fare and comfortable rooms Porters meet passenger trains. A first-class bar adjoins the hotel, where the finest wines, liquors and cigars can always be found. Bolivar Bulletin, 29 Mar 1889, Fri

Cancer and Tumors Cured
Cancer and Tumors Cured, no knife, book free, Drs. Gratigny & Bush, 163 Elm Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.Name this paper every time you write. Drs Gratigny and Bush Cancer and Tumors Cured

Carter’s Little Liver Pills
Very small and as easy to take as sugar.Carter’s Little Liver Pills for headache, for dizziness, for biliousness, for torpid liver, for constipation, for sallow skin, for the complexion. Genuine; must have signature; purley vegetable; Price 25 cents; Cure sick headache. Bolivar Bulletin, 13 Mar 1903, Fri

Cascarets Liver Tonic
Appendicitis that dreadful fiend that threatens the life of rich and poor. It can attack and kill only those whose bowels are not kept thoroughly cleaned out, purified and disinfected the year round. One whose liver is dead, whose bowels and stomach are full of half decayed food, whose whole body is unclean ...

Colored Undertaker – H. L. Porter
H L Porter, colored undertaker COLORED UNDERTAKER: I have established undertaking parlors on North main street, No. 16, for colored people. I have all the modern equipment. Thirteen years’ experience. Right will win H. L. Porter — Shared by John Shaw Comment by John Shaw: Advertisement for H. L. Porter, Black undertaker on North Main ...

Corset De Paris
FRENCH HAND MADE. – E.D. A La Reine – Corset De Paris – For sale by all leading retailers. Heilner & Strauss, Sole Agents and Importers, New York. Memphis Daily Appeal, 29 Sep 1885, Tue

Cotton Guano from Moore & Newbern
FOR SALE. Cotton Guano. Special Fertilizer for old and tired lands. Eighteen Dollars per ton. Moore & Newbern, Bolivar, Tenn. Bolivar Bulletin, 11 Mar 1094, Fri

Cure for Foul Mouthed Woman
A Foul Mouthed WomanIs even worse than a foul-mouthed man. But no one need be foul-mouthed if they will only use SOZODONT and rub it in well. Don’t spare the brush and spoil the mouth, as some parents do with their children when they withhold the rod. Cure for Foul Mouthed Women