Warner’s Safe Cure: A Message from the President
Several months ago, I was contacted by the Rochester Chamber of Commerce. The lady who contacted me was in the process of assembling a history of the Rochester Chamber and knew that H. H. Warner was...
View ArticleWarner’s Safe Cure: Dunedin Reconsidered – The 4-Cities Office (1891-1900)
I’ve been doing this blog now for over 10 years and sometimes I struggle with trying to find new material that hasn’t been covered in one way or another. That accounts for my somewhat infrequent and...
View ArticleWarner’s Safe Cure: “N.Z.” on Melbourne Rheumatic Cure Label
My most recent post explored a new theory about how the Warner’s Safe Remedies Company claimed an office in Dunedin, New Zealand without the benefit of any bricks and mortar to back it up. As long as...
View ArticleWarner’s Safe Cure: Tonic Bitters Wooden Box
With the exception of Safe Cure wooden boxes from Rochester, most of the Safe Remedies wooden boxes are pretty hard to come by. I have NEVER seen one for Safe Tonic Bitters! Behold this rare beauty...
View ArticleThe Giant of Medicines
This particular ad ran in the December 24, 1886 edition of the Conway Springs Star in Northfield, Kansas. This ad was not unique to that publication and, like many Warner’s Safe Cure ads, it was stock...
View ArticleWarner’s Safe Cure: Those Green Tippecanoes!
Until 2011, the existence of a green Tippecanoe was, for me, a myth. I said as much when I posted about them back then. I had seen plenty of amber Tippecanoes in various shades, including a few that...
View ArticleWarner’s Safe Cure: The Warner Observatory Revisited
The photograph below of The Warner Observatory from the Albert R. Stone Negative Collection of the Rochester Museum & Science Center shows the observatory sometime after its construction in 1883....
View ArticleWarner’s Safe Advertising: The Metropolitan Revisited
About 10 years ago, I stumbled across a great piece of Warner’s advertising for Log Cabin Remedies contained in a somewhat obscure literary magazine called The Metropolitan. In the late 19th Century,...
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Aqua Pressburg Safe Cures Rock!
With the possible exception of the aqua Rochester Safe Remedies Company bottles, aqua Warner’s are pretty rare. The best examples are the aqua London Safe cures including the Safe Cure, Safe Nervine,...
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