Sunday, January 26, 2025

Old Newspaper Advertisements



Do you pay $8 per month rent? Why don't you buy a new house of SPANGLER & FINLEY, and by paying your $8 per month on your property you will soon own your own home. Come right along. Save your earnings. Have the matter explained to you, and see what is required to buy. We have a nice house now ready to sell on monthly payments. (9-11-1885.)


STRAW HATS! STRAW HATS! All Kinds and Lowest Prices. Men's Linen Hats, 15 and 25 cents. Boys' Sunday Hats, Mixed, 25 cents. Go to GALIGHER'S, 141 Main Street. (How can I spend 25 cents on a hat when I'm already paying $8 a month for my house?) (5-18-1886.)


THE DEAF HEAR! All functional derangement of the Eye and Ear cured. No more cutting or probing of these delicate organs. J. P. FINLAW, M. D., of Camden, N. J., has made a wonderful discovery in regard to the curative power of some vegetable plants, which enables him to control diseases considered incurable by all other doctors from the days of Hypocrites to the present time. (This is exciting-no more cutting or probing my “delicate” organs.) (6-2-1886).


One of the Symptoms of CONSUMPTION is a Hacking Cough which should be cured before the LUNGS are diseased. No better Remedy Than ALLEN'S LUNG BALSAM has been made. It is put in three size bottles, PRICE 25 cents, 50 cents & $1.00. Ask for and be sure to get ALLEN'S LUNG BALSAM. All Druggists sell it. J. N. HARRIS & CO. limited PROPRIETORS, Cincinnati, Ohio. (Would Dr. Finlaw approve this product?) (2-10-1887.)


COYLE'S LIVERY. First-class Horses and reasonable rates. Everything complete. (Good. I hate renting an incomplete horse.) Hacks and carriages always in readiness for funerals. (3-21-1889.)


DR. PIERCE'S PELLETS regulate and cleanse the liver, stomach and bowels. They are purely vegetable and perfectly harmless. One a dose. Sold by druggists. 25 cents a vial. (8-21-1889.)


The Improved F. & N. MOWER. Eight Inch Wheels. Finest and Simplest Made. Prices Lowest in the City. GEO. W. SHAW, 65 MAIN ST. (Power source-the person pushing it!) (5-14-1892.)


Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription has cured thousands of suffering women. It is perfected specific for the troubles peculiar to them. It eradicates the disease, stops the dragging, life-sapping drain, and in a perfectly rational, natural way, builds up the wasted strength. It will bring buoyant health. It will put roses into pale faces-solid flesh in sunken places. (5-31-1895.)


LIGHTNING HOT DROPS- Breaks Up a Cold. CURES: Colic, Cramps, Diarrhea, Flux, Cholera, Morbus, Nausea, Changes of Water, Etc. HEALS: Cuts, Burns, Bruises, Soratches, Bites of Animals and Bugs, Etc. Tastes Good, Smells Good. (If I ever have Morbus problems, I'm going to buy some of this!) (9-10-1895.)


TEN DOLLAR SUIT SALE! They Can't Be Beat! The material in them is genuine wool-taken from the lamb's back-manufactured by expert workmen-finely woven and fast dyed. There's the same style and fit in these wonderful $10 Suits that a tailor would claim to give you for $30. They won't lose their shape like most ready-to-wear clothes. There's something uncommonly good about 'em. A.E. STARR & COMPANY. (4-15-1898.)


You Find Par Excellence in the quality of our beer. Nothing but the purist malt and hops are used in BOHN'S BEER. If you want the best, order from this brewery. AUGUST BOHN, Proprietor. Marietta Street. Phone 2871. (It the beer is cold I'll buy some!) (4-26-1900.)


DRS. DENNIS & EAKIN Have Opened Their NEW DENTAL PARLORS In The Opera Block, Rooms 7, 9, and 10, N. Fifth Street.


That same day, just in case the dentists mentioned above didn't do such a good job, was the following ad: ARNOLD & BATEMAN, FUNERAL DIRECTORS and Embalmers. Free Ambulances. Service Day or Night. (6-6-1900).