"Swiftsure Line of Stages" pictorial advertisement
Collection: National Postal Museum
Object type: Transportation Equipment & Models
Date: 1805-1813
Place: New York
Pennsylvania
United States of America
Medium: paper; ink
Dimensions: Height x Width: 5 × 7 1/4 in. (12.7 × 18.42 cm)
Description: A newspaper clipping featuring "Swiftsure Line of Stages" pictorial advertisement
SWIFTSURE LINE OF STAGES.
THE SAFEST AND CHEAPEST
Conveyance from Philadelphia to New York,
Starts from the Green Tree Inn, No. 50, North Fourth Street, every morning, precisely at 8 o'clock, (Sundays excepted,) dine at Buckingham, lodge at Somerville, breakfast next morning at Plainfield, and arrive at Powles Hook, at 11 o'clock, A. M. This line is in complete order, the roads are excellent, and the country through which it passes more pleasing to travellers generally, than any other route between the two cities. No exertions shall be withheld by the proprietors in rendering this line pleasing and comfortable to those that may please to favour them with their patronage.
Stage Fare only FIVE DOLLARS through, with a generous allowance of baggage. Charges for accommodation 50 cents per meal, lodging 25 cents. All Packages and Baggage will go at the risk of the owner, unless insured and receipted for by the Clerk.
November 28—if fmwtf
ALEX. M'CALLA & CO.
Approved Family MEDICINES,
WHICH are celebrated for the cure of most diseases to which the human body is liable, prepared only by the sole proprietor,
T. W. DYOTT, M. D.
Grandson of the late celebrated Dr. Robertson, of Edinburgh,
And for sale in Philadelphia, only , at the proprietor's wholesale and retail drug and family medicine warehouse,
North-east corner of Second and Race-streets,
And by retail of his Agents throughout the United States.
Dr. Robertson's Celebrated Stomachic Elixir of Health,
Price one dollar and fifty cents.
Which has proved by thousands, who have experienced its beneficial effects, to be the most valuable medicine ever offered to the public, for the cure of coughs, colds, consumption, the hooping cough, asthma, pain in the breast, cramp, and wind in the stomach, head-ache, loss of appetite, indigestion, &c.
For the Dysentery or Lax, Cholera Morbus, severe gripings, and other diseases of the bowels, and the Summer Complaint in Children, it has proved a certain remedy, and restored to perfect health from the greatest debility.
Persons afflicted with Pulmonary Complaints, or disorder of the Breast and Lungs, even in the most advanced state, will find immediate relief. Common Coughs and Colds, which are in general occasioned by obstructed perspiration, will be found to yield to its benign influence in a few hours.
In Asthmatic or Consumptive complaints, Hoarseness, Wheesings, Shortness of Breath
mours, open obstructions, promote the secretion of good bile, operating as a cathartic and powerful diuretic and chonchoretic.
Mahy's Plaster Cloth,
Approved and recommended by all the most eminent physicians of Philadelphia.
This plaister cloth, so well known in the United States, and particularly in the city of Philadelphia, is a sovereign remedy against ulcers, however old and inveterate; also, cancers, erysipelas, wens, lumps, scrofula, fistula, white swelling, sore breast, felons, whitlows, boils, carbuncles, &c. &c. It cures sprains, bruises, pains in the back, swelling and pains in the joints, scalds, burns, chilblain, sore legs, and wounds tending to suppuration: it draws cauterised sores or issues, very successfully and without pain; dissipates the pain of the gout and rheumatism in a short time; as it softens the skin, it is used successfully for the cure of corns on the feet. This plaister is recommended to mariners and others who travel by sea or land.
Dr. Dyott's Patent Itch Ointment,
For pleasantness, safety, expedition, ease and certainty, is infinitely superior to any other medicine, for the cure of that most disagreeable and tormenting disorder, the Itch. Price 50 cents per box.
Dr. Dyott's Infallible Tooth-Ache Drops Price Fifty cents.
The Circassian Eye-Water,
A sovereign remedy for all disorders of the Eyes, whether arising from cold, inflammation, weakness, &c. &c. Price 50 cents.
The Restorative Dentifrice,
For cleaning, whitening, and preserving the Teeth and Gums. Price Fifty cents per Box.
This valuable preparation possesses the most salutary virtue in cleansing and beautifying the teeth; in its composition it is perfectly free from acid or any other pernicious property liable to
T. W.
WHOLESALE DRUG AND
No. 137, North East Corner
PHIL
Physicians, Druggists, Merchants, and Courline; warranted of the most approved and genuine Family Medicine in use; Perfumery, Reeves's, Hair Pencils, Paints, Oil, Window Glass, Vials, D
T. W. DYOTT , acquaints his friends and th formed good connexions in Europe, in the Dru several of the most celebrated Manufacturing Ho facturing Chemists, Colour Makers, and Glass Fac and extensively.
For the convenience of residents in the South nexion with Dr. JOHN DYOTT, No. 56, East Bay, C Orleans, where purchasers are supplied with e Philadelphia terms.
The GENUINE FAMILY MEDICINES of the l