If afflicted with sore eyes, use Dr. Isaac Thompson’s Eye Water. From an advertisement in Harper’s Round Table Magazine, September 1895. This product is not recommended for people with eyes who wish to keep them.
Dr. Thompson's Eye Water
Beautiful Women
1908 England was a time of change. The Victorian era, with its stultifying codes of social behaviour had come to an end, and the Edwardian era had begun. Although very socially conservative by today’s standards, Britain’s Edwardian society was undergoing a period of rapid change in what was acceptable. Only a few years before, prudish Victorians had covered the legs of their pianos with stockings for fear that the sight of a wooden furniture leg might give offence; now women were appearing in what was then sexy poses in magazines. This article examines how standards of beauty have changed over the last 100 years.
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Shut Ins
The Shut In Society is selling “All Kinds of fancy and useful articles made by our invalids. Passe-Partout orders carefully executed. Lace mending beautifully done. Exchange open daily from 10 to 4. ” New York in 1908.
Planning on being in New York in 1908, then why not catch Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, now in the Zenith of Its Glory.
See the Mighty Avalanche, the Devastating Prairie Fire, the Battle of Summit Springs, the World’s Rough Riders Led by the Only and Original Colonel Wm. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) Who Positively Appears at Every Performance. Seats are only 25 cents or you can get a box seat for just $2.00. Its a great bargain and a great way to spend an afternoon in 1908 New York.
1908 America was a land of great enthusiasm. Every product was hyped as the greatest ever, and the solution for every problem. Unregulated medicines and health supplements promised to cure every illness.
Here is an advertisement for soda water that was supposed to make you healthy and strong:
Manufactured by Mrs. Blanche Thomas of New York, San Francisco and St. Louis, the Herbo-Nervo Tonic was an all in one tonic, confection and soda drink guaranteed under the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 to “build up the whole system and give renewed vigor and vim.” It was made purely of “vegetables and herbs”. The ad claimed that “Children can take it with impunity” because it contains nothing but sugar and the tonic. At least one part of the advertisement was accurate.
