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Category Archives: Remedy
Looking at some Canadian Bitters
Looking at some Canadian Bitters 18 April 2014 On some days, I think the bitters collecting community is small while on others, I am just amazed at how big it is. Today, I worked with Marlowe Morris up in Canada … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Digging and Finding, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Photography, Remedy, Tonics
Tagged A. Harvard, bitters, Buchan's, canada, canadian, Collingwood, Crown, Gianelli, Isaac, Italian, Johnson's, Marlowe Morris, Montreal, ontario, Remedy, Richard, Royal, St. Lawrence, Steamboat, Tonic, Toronto, Williams
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Black Hills Bitters To The Front!
Black Hills Bitters To The Front! 19 March 2014 (R•032114) Jack Stecher (Rochester, New York) provided me with a copy of this 1879 advertisement below for Black Hills Bitters from Rochester, New York and asked if I knew anything about … Continue reading
Looks like J. W. Poland made a Bitters!
Looks like J. W. Poland made a Bitters! Poland’s White Mountain Bitters 03 March 2014 Wow, what a neat surprise. Bottle trade card authority, Joe Gourd sent me this invoice for Littlefield & Hayes of Manchester, New Hampshire showing a … Continue reading
Posted in Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, Medicines & Cures, Remedy
Tagged bitters, Bonny, Cattarrh, Chauncey, drug, Hayes, Littlefield, Manchester, Mountain, New Hampshire, Poland, receipt, Remedy, White
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Rees’ Orange Tonica – The Best Bitters in the World
Rees’ Orange Tonica The Best Bitters in the World Risley Co. Sole Proprietors and Manufacturers – New York PART OF THE ORANGE BITTERS SERIES 19 February 2014 (R•082519) Well, this is the last advertising trade card from authority Joe Gourd … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, History, Medicines & Cures, Remedy, Tonics, Trade Cards
Tagged advertising, Augusta, bitters, Chamber, Charles, Charleston, Druggist & Drugstore, Georgia, Gourd, Harral, Haviland, Hubbell, Keyes, Kitchen, Mobile, New York, Orange, Philotoken, Rees, Risley, Series, Tonic, tonica, trade
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“Bitters, Please”
“BITTERS, PLEASE” How Many Persons Take a Nip Under the Guise of “Medicine.” 19 January 2014 It is a undisguised fact that many people indulge in alcoholic stimulants under the guise of medicines and that many patent-medicines enterprises make their … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Article Publications, Bitters, History, Medicines & Cures, Remedy
Tagged alcohol, beverage, bitters, Carrie, Class, Medicine, movement, Nation, Remedy, Temperance
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Looking again at Rosenbaum’s Bitters
Looking again at Rosenbaum’s Bitters Who was this Dr. Rosenbaum? 23 December 2013 (R•052814) Quite a bit has been written about N. B. Jacob’s & Co. and Dr. Rosenbaum’s Celebrated Stomach Bitters from San Francisco. Periodically, I try to reach back … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Bitters, History, Liquor Merchant, Questions, Remedy
Tagged bitters, George Thatcher & Co., N. B. Jacob's & Co., Philadelphia, Rosenbaum, San Francisco, Simi, Western
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The little C.C.C. – Certain Chancre Cure from Palestine, Texas
The little C.C.C. – CERTAIN CHANCRE CURE from Palestine, Texas 13 December 2013 I really like this bottle now appearing on ebay for a princely sum. The C-C-C Certain Chancre Cure put out by C.R. Thomasson in Palestine, Texas is a … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Druggist & Drugstore, eBay, History, Medicines & Cures, Remedy
Tagged Arkansas, Brunswig, CCC, certain, Chancre, Charles, chemist, Cure, Dallas, Dow, Fort Worth, Hot Springs, Marianne, Morrison, Palestine, Randolph, Remedy, Sumpter, texas, Thomasson
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Tracking the Botanic Iron Tonic Bitters – Botanic Medicine Company
Tracking the Botanic Iron Tonic Bitters – Botanic Medicine Company 07 December 2013 Well, Joe Gourd has done it again with an e-mail containing a trade card showing three cats playing for an unlisted Botanic Iron Tonic Bitters – Botanic Medicine Company … Continue reading
Levi Tower Jr. and his Calmon’s Tonic Billious Bitters
Levi Tower Jr. and his Calmon’s Tonic Billious Bitters 17 November 2013 (R•112314) For a severe attack of Billiousness, one Triplex Pill taken every other night for two or three nights followed by a glass of Bitters before breakfast the … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Apothecary, Bitters, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures, Remedy, Tonics
Tagged Apothecary, Billious, bitters, Boston, Calmon, Cohasset, Commonwealth, J. T. Brown & Co., John G. Godding, Levi Tower Jr., Massachusetts, pharmacy, Tonic, Whipple
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