LANE'S FAMILY MEDICINE. WHAT IS IT FOR? IT'S FOR CONSTIPATION. [cover title]

Published by Orator F. Woodward, [Le Roy, NY, 1910

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Single sheet of pale green paper, folded, printed on both sides. 15 cm. Eight panels of text. A promotional for Lane's "vegetable remedy" for constipation, "prepared entirely from roots and herbs which grow in the Rocky Mountains," by Orator F. Woodward, proprietor of Kemp's Balsam. Directions for use are included. A very good copy. OCLC lists one copy: McGill Univ. Orator F. Woodward Medicine Co. was established in Leroy, New York in 1881, when he secure the rights to produce Kemp's Balsam. Woodward also bought the rights to the Jello formula, later sold to General Foods by his heirs. [see: further information on this company in the Atwater catalogue, Vol. II, pp.604-5 (3867.1, 3868, and 3869)]. Woodward's obituary in the Buffalo Evening News, Jan. 22, 1906, mentions numerous businesses from which he made his fortune as director or stockholder, including the Genesee Pure Food Company, LeRoy Plow Company, LeRoy National Bank, LeRoy Water Commissioner, in addition to his proprietary medicine company.…

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Title
LANE'S FAMILY MEDICINE. WHAT IS IT FOR? IT'S FOR CONSTIPATION. [cover title]
Publisher
Orator F. Woodward, [Le Roy, NY
Publication year
1910
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