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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Royal Baking Powder
Royal Baking Powder, Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kind and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans, Royal Baking Powder Co., 100 Wall St., ...
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 LOUISVILLE AND MEMPHIS LINE WESTERN DIVISION | The line is thoroughly equipped, and in first class condition, and provides between Louisville ...
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 ...