This Old Paper

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‘Dr. C. McClane’s Liver Pills and Vermifuge’.  A lovely card with some flowers (pansies?) on the front, and two letters of testimony on the reverse.  This card has a bit of staining on the front and has a pencil marking on [...]

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This little card is downright hilarious.  Selling a health tonic and at the same time a rat poison?  What’s the modern day business jargon?  Co-branding?  Add-on sale? Way ahead of its time.

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Trying a new format with this one…  Here is a trade card for Tarrant’s Seltzer Aperient (p001-005).  To be used with HOT water [sic], picture is of a girl hopping out of a big basket.  This card is really neat as it has an apothecary stamp on the back.  To this day, health food stores will [...]

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Front:
Dr. GROSVENOR’S LIVERAID,
CURES ALL
DISEASES OF THE STOMACH LIVER & BLOOD
SMALL DOSES PROMPT EFFECT
(A.C.BARROWS,)
COPYRIGHTED 1879, BY BUFFORD BOST[ON]
Reverse:
(109-2-14)
Reader, if you are suffering from any Liver or Stomach trouble that renders life a martyrdom, be induced to try the LIVER AID.  So certain are we that this medicine will cure any case of [...]

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Front:
Headache Cured.
 
DR. METTAUR’S
HEADACHE PILLS,
A CERTAIN RELIEF.
TWENTY FIVE CENTS.
Reverse:
DR METTAUR’S HEADACHE PILLS are a certain relief for the three most annoying disorders of the system  HEADACHE, CONSTIPATION AND BILIOUSNESS
HEADACHE either nervous or from a sick stomach is relieved in a few hours.  If the Pills are taken regularly certain permanent relief from [...]

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