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Category: Eccentrics, Frauds, Cons and Scams, New Age, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Nineteenth Century
Canton Independent Sentinel - Aug 14, 1890
Quincy Daily Ledger - Nov 11, 1890
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Category: Babies and Toddlers, Children, Smoking and Tobacco, Nineteenth Century
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Category: Explorers, Frontiersmen, and Conquerors, Fables, Myths, Urban Legends, Rumors, Water-Cooler Lore, Asia, North America, Nineteenth Century
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Category: Death, Europe, United Kingdom, Nineteenth Century
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Category: Headgear, Nineteenth Century, Teeth
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Category: Music, Politics, Proverbs, Maxims, Sayings, Folk Wisdom and Quotations, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
One of the most (in)famous protagonists was Henry T. Helmbold (1826–1892), who started his patent medicine business in 1846 as a retail druggist with “Helmbold’s Extract Buchu—cures diabetes, gravel, brick-dust deposits, irritations of the bladder and diseases arising from exposure or imprudence, etc.” and other medicines. He opened his first store in Philadelphia in 1850, the largest and best-known in New York in 1862. By 1865 Helmbold’s buchu was the bestselling patent medicine on the US market. For this, he spent enormous amounts of money on advertising, mostly in newspapers: ∼US$ 500,000 (about 10 million US$ today) each for the years 1869–71. For the distribution of his products, Helmbold had his own 4c postage stamp (Figure 4) (The Historian, 1912; Young, 1961).
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 10, 2024 -
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Category: Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, Africa, Nineteenth Century
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Canadian Poultry Review - Apr 1926
Posted By: Alex - Sun Apr 07, 2024 -
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Category: Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, Nineteenth Century
Chicago Chronicle - Dec 29, 1895
Tunkhannock New Age - Feb 18, 1937
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Category: Death, Insects and Spiders, Nineteenth Century
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Category: Technology, Nineteenth Century
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