Candy for your bowels, sounds yummy!

1900 Talk is cheap

1897 QUAKER OATS ADVERTISEMENT

1902 JELLO AD (since Jello was a new product it had to advertise extensively to create interest)

1900 QUAKER OATS ADVERTISEMENT

1900 IVORY SOAP

Abbey's Salt patent medicine

Telephone ad "This is an age of hurry"

Nabisco trade card

circa 1890's corned beef trade card

1900 HOUSE SERIES

For a realistic look at what life was like at the turn of the last century I would heartily recommend this British series. There are of course some differences because it isn't about America but it is a good overall look at life in circa 1900.

1890's SLADES SPICES TRADING CARD

Jav Mar Mo Coffee raising the price, because they can

AYERS SASPARILLA CURES SCROFULA

Sasparilla is mostly used to make a sort of root beer that isn't very popular, but it used to be used in some patent medicines because if you take a high enough dose it causes sweating, which I guess people thought would flush out toxins?

Anyway this advertisement is basically saying that if you drink the syrup that make root beer it will cure tuberculosis.

DUFFY'S PURE MALT WHISKEY CURES CONSUMPTION

Well, it's good that there is no fusel, or amyl alchol in this product, it's a byproduct of fermentation and should not be drunk at all, so that's good. But not having poison in it doesn't make this a medicine. This is just straight up whiskey, nothing else, how would that cure consumption? One of the testimonials state a drink every two hours cured them, a drink of whiskey every two hours would do something, but not really a cure.

This seems a little unusual to me, there is no secret ingredients or recipe, it's just alcohol.

1900 BALTIMORE AMERICAN ARTICLE