Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1897 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

■ 3 Fifty Years Ago. President Polk in the White House chair, While in Lowell was Doctor Ayer; Both were busy for human weal One to govern and one to heal. And, as a president’s power of will Sometimes depends on a liver-pill, Mr. Polk took Ayer’s Pills I trow For his liver, 30 years ago.

Ayer’s Cathartic Pills were designed to supply a model purgative to people who had so long injured themselves with griping medicines. Ileing carefully prepared and their ingredients adjusted to the exact necessities of the bowels and liver, their popularity was instantaneous. That this popularity has been maintained is well marked in the medal awarded these pills at the World's Fair 1893. 50 Years of Cures,