tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68422910926920518582024-03-10T16:18:46.944-07:00Western Bottle NewsAn online site for the western collector of antique bottles, gold rush collectables and early western material cultureRick Simihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08482738207230371864noreply@blogger.comBlogger1274125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-84630576208982342032024-03-04T22:31:00.000-08:002024-03-05T10:30:45.060-08:00<p> </p><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> Bondy Brother's Belt Manuf</span>RS </b><b><span style="font-size: large;">Cast Clasps </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b><b><span>By Nicholas Kane</span></b></div><p><span> </span>Recently, a unique clasp drew my attention that was discovered by a gentleman by the name of Bill Cochrun in 2023. The disc on this clasp is a variant of the Bondy Brothers Belt Manufrs New York but does not exhibit the embossed "Belt Manufrs". Most interesting of all it is hard soldered to the "High Noon Eagle" tongue or male portion of the clasp . As soon as I noticed this I realized the same foundry most likely produced both of these clasps and the hybrid that I had unearthed in 2017. The first image is of the standard cast Bondy followed by a standard High Noon Eagle & the hybrid clasps.</p><p><span><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span><span> </span><span> <span> </span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7hkqDavWWKFiiKOW0UY9GvJgMAIFmxg_PqJ9ma5kccZiiVAUfabPl9sIVhetJh5NfScdQGUGwTQSfc6PRyxBJa-LsLSBTU4dZlCxBA0H2SSMQ-ATVM8YpwI16dhIDeRPLFXM-D33iaY2Q5be5HU48xABmyMPz7T4ogfJ_mIlBRm6PjZgPncPP6Uz4m1Wh/s2592/bondyfront.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2592" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7hkqDavWWKFiiKOW0UY9GvJgMAIFmxg_PqJ9ma5kccZiiVAUfabPl9sIVhetJh5NfScdQGUGwTQSfc6PRyxBJa-LsLSBTU4dZlCxBA0H2SSMQ-ATVM8YpwI16dhIDeRPLFXM-D33iaY2Q5be5HU48xABmyMPz7T4ogfJ_mIlBRm6PjZgPncPP6Uz4m1Wh/s320/bondyfront.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> Standard Cast Bondy <br /><span><span><br /><br /></span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdvyx4YrRmmIXeU1RbolWgon4ZhrUHRTWC1Oa_jgbeusaQfGKLC7QHVHtlwmebKWTisKRpdMUDE60-t5MzHZRtLiRkOiWKJRmZjOlHIP1YURR0M6TzeFReumsdhMyax1NyUSOPKz1PBHl18J61SQ4eqSOrgolEenQ5g1v56q882HjCAZY7MnplF7nTHzgn/s2309/Untitled-6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1823" data-original-width="2309" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdvyx4YrRmmIXeU1RbolWgon4ZhrUHRTWC1Oa_jgbeusaQfGKLC7QHVHtlwmebKWTisKRpdMUDE60-t5MzHZRtLiRkOiWKJRmZjOlHIP1YURR0M6TzeFReumsdhMyax1NyUSOPKz1PBHl18J61SQ4eqSOrgolEenQ5g1v56q882HjCAZY7MnplF7nTHzgn/s320/Untitled-6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Daguerreotype with a fine Cast Bondy <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeBLx3dsjewr3BeOa4x1YK_eBQ1LYekHrfJ3UqpLQjlz8rGxK2N2oOQea6NtLm3C69vLSvs9uXu7bT_54zhY9XUdiW6EcrO-gre1iq-g56OLQ9G8IEDemjnRWA7t4ogn6-yGg4GPWKRqlkeCvOo3Mlu8Rdk_oiz4UM2LM4v6kLGzrQohrkkwtqMkTyQLMe/s2592/backbondy.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2592" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeBLx3dsjewr3BeOa4x1YK_eBQ1LYekHrfJ3UqpLQjlz8rGxK2N2oOQea6NtLm3C69vLSvs9uXu7bT_54zhY9XUdiW6EcrO-gre1iq-g56OLQ9G8IEDemjnRWA7t4ogn6-yGg4GPWKRqlkeCvOo3Mlu8Rdk_oiz4UM2LM4v6kLGzrQohrkkwtqMkTyQLMe/w320-h240/backbondy.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Back of a standard cast Bondy</div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAGIFL2x-j9oxRNZ2jOhn9P52NDttOFXJ-azKNd-Ri74kcl2IaVitBcbcLl7d0UOBA5JTSyeJBBYFGJ9sWRSY9jFVSFFjAc1v2cr-2HRK4H8iB7mgGdESUA0KxHVtd9T9Q_YyuFddfB77Y7BBwqTUPIQZyyzbDGxzMHbAqIpJZ_va2peFaytUoyavX1r26/s2016/IMG_4710.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAGIFL2x-j9oxRNZ2jOhn9P52NDttOFXJ-azKNd-Ri74kcl2IaVitBcbcLl7d0UOBA5JTSyeJBBYFGJ9sWRSY9jFVSFFjAc1v2cr-2HRK4H8iB7mgGdESUA0KxHVtd9T9Q_YyuFddfB77Y7BBwqTUPIQZyyzbDGxzMHbAqIpJZ_va2peFaytUoyavX1r26/s320/IMG_4710.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>High Noon Eagle and correct cast slide <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx_KpehxrDccFxBi1c84oBgc9gxaZdcFmVqIbolboVMZt0K6Fy2OphQ79zIN4sV6CFc7Nd34iQfUtiSQcMtRjZNE2E5zP6Wj5t1vi3wx37MG5DwlFZkIq3dmIhc_0K2aTktLaZfVm630AFRrZyZIJ2n1Si3VwdQQbSNi2Ep_dTZI2oBbO151v7tw1z7Zx-/s1079/Bill%202023%20bondy%20variant.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="973" data-original-width="1079" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx_KpehxrDccFxBi1c84oBgc9gxaZdcFmVqIbolboVMZt0K6Fy2OphQ79zIN4sV6CFc7Nd34iQfUtiSQcMtRjZNE2E5zP6Wj5t1vi3wx37MG5DwlFZkIq3dmIhc_0K2aTktLaZfVm630AFRrZyZIJ2n1Si3VwdQQbSNi2Ep_dTZI2oBbO151v7tw1z7Zx-/s320/Bill%202023%20bondy%20variant.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> Bills complete High Noon Eagle clasp with variant Bondy Disc rather than the High Noon Eagle<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhecEruOJfwmn2Vyw-YfgJYrceq-FQviSLh8SkKSqh3lwGvooNplEcQZ7sViuVJR8PVAMCIQFWQ8YPuFeVdvC9xZLBOWSB8rxWqgdL-zAZTV3Uw5-4AtoQzvK-kqwRZkVLTuS3RNAZIihwhk2G8zNuJxuNa_xpd_s3egZtIg4YezU3HZ39MtJxBXlNR1efC/s1092/bills%20bondy%20front.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="795" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhecEruOJfwmn2Vyw-YfgJYrceq-FQviSLh8SkKSqh3lwGvooNplEcQZ7sViuVJR8PVAMCIQFWQ8YPuFeVdvC9xZLBOWSB8rxWqgdL-zAZTV3Uw5-4AtoQzvK-kqwRZkVLTuS3RNAZIihwhk2G8zNuJxuNa_xpd_s3egZtIg4YezU3HZ39MtJxBXlNR1efC/w224-h308/bills%20bondy%20front.jpg" width="224" /></a></div> </div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> Bills Bondy tongue without " Manufrs "</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Next will be another important variant from the same maker of these clasps which consists of a Bondy variant tongue that has a similar bar to the above with the standard Bondy center disc . This example was located by Harrison Cole and sold in 2020 to Mark D. and recently changed hands to Rick P. in 2024.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibwBe5Ui1-CgOCPI7l3eqVk4Hz6Npp1tZ-8ERPEVVzg9HPi2YJcXAlByhcmOIEj5kR_G5lCYzlCRe6_Jk6Z2_fmzaQaCAI07Bkz4Jit4i8YJB26iNeZ5u8D9zzfNKVZ_n0GIEsLqfl_dTO2mYODk3agm6yhDkzyFDwXkK_5SnnAeS4ZPBrYK-Mj4yhSZiB/s828/IMG_4736.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="828" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibwBe5Ui1-CgOCPI7l3eqVk4Hz6Npp1tZ-8ERPEVVzg9HPi2YJcXAlByhcmOIEj5kR_G5lCYzlCRe6_Jk6Z2_fmzaQaCAI07Bkz4Jit4i8YJB26iNeZ5u8D9zzfNKVZ_n0GIEsLqfl_dTO2mYODk3agm6yhDkzyFDwXkK_5SnnAeS4ZPBrYK-Mj4yhSZiB/s320/IMG_4736.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> The back showing the same course file marks.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMJLoYiTjDOkc4sKIRbhIDFSDV8zdhcBN6DWjaYbw26ksBN1LPhqOX_08Piu_oIX6Z7V87yLJboNzsnRKlCgu6-v5IYE0VwZu4PosjwZpwIGa38Xu75iwXtpGy-CFY4Yi6zwbbppkIYD1S-7B4OuJLG1nHOSnaRSsTNyossTJSM4OAhpjUHXVgfUDIqxzy/s828/IMG_4735.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="828" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMJLoYiTjDOkc4sKIRbhIDFSDV8zdhcBN6DWjaYbw26ksBN1LPhqOX_08Piu_oIX6Z7V87yLJboNzsnRKlCgu6-v5IYE0VwZu4PosjwZpwIGa38Xu75iwXtpGy-CFY4Yi6zwbbppkIYD1S-7B4OuJLG1nHOSnaRSsTNyossTJSM4OAhpjUHXVgfUDIqxzy/s320/IMG_4735.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> The solder outlines match & not a later marriage.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0UiIbqmUfdI4TWGRv0K3OrsIg4teRSQeRwIWKAPhA36VLumR8zgAHbZGMHKMkcmedLZCS0eRFVuza-gxIRWd3TE1kzqZsVI5EkhLmD_ECmb8rUTBbedz4ayoDjqonxc2qa3Vqur54V-YKez2DXhv9Hi9N0VaXdAn06-Mv4mcdc9RdYSwvvdx9xQeqQI9p/s828/IMG_4734.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="828" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0UiIbqmUfdI4TWGRv0K3OrsIg4teRSQeRwIWKAPhA36VLumR8zgAHbZGMHKMkcmedLZCS0eRFVuza-gxIRWd3TE1kzqZsVI5EkhLmD_ECmb8rUTBbedz4ayoDjqonxc2qa3Vqur54V-YKez2DXhv9Hi9N0VaXdAn06-Mv4mcdc9RdYSwvvdx9xQeqQI9p/s320/IMG_4734.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> The image above shows the standard Bondy center disc on a flat hybrid tongue bar.</div><div> </div><div> Finally another hybrid like Bills , Ricks & the High Noon Eagle with a twist .</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8DnK-pP1pcrZa8MvbXm6xP-2HLhm7FpqxebM9rmHHWp0_xWfnqECLmsY-b6Z68FqpyvCsDhateSSwgBVeiZLabLVsdGny-oMTNiSFyP_UNAq-Rfoe6sp6FrNqmwjFOi-moCQCwBybtot3W-qy7Cr6IyBoiBh9ZIbh5XmNQ7d4NZ0bnacSxF0rFgFjNLDt/s2016/IMG_4711.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8DnK-pP1pcrZa8MvbXm6xP-2HLhm7FpqxebM9rmHHWp0_xWfnqECLmsY-b6Z68FqpyvCsDhateSSwgBVeiZLabLVsdGny-oMTNiSFyP_UNAq-Rfoe6sp6FrNqmwjFOi-moCQCwBybtot3W-qy7Cr6IyBoiBh9ZIbh5XmNQ7d4NZ0bnacSxF0rFgFjNLDt/s320/IMG_4711.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Hybrid I recovered within approximately a 4-5' area </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib32kK16wCeW2TmLPoYwTtSLvm6uXmZX0bcxDYEGMokNJtqJ5S6xPHyRofu45zWHyBVOjv8UQWJ9Rw87khCCE_V8czByF1bJS5y8OW0l1S9ZP50R-r1Alq8H4zW-Tr_FKvLws1pLcWu_qtCKuGq2Q4eYyoN27zNxF_fd_Yi4sOuxD9kZZsFK9-EmtmQQz0/s2016/IMG_4712.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib32kK16wCeW2TmLPoYwTtSLvm6uXmZX0bcxDYEGMokNJtqJ5S6xPHyRofu45zWHyBVOjv8UQWJ9Rw87khCCE_V8czByF1bJS5y8OW0l1S9ZP50R-r1Alq8H4zW-Tr_FKvLws1pLcWu_qtCKuGq2Q4eYyoN27zNxF_fd_Yi4sOuxD9kZZsFK9-EmtmQQz0/s320/IMG_4712.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Dug by Nicholas Kane in 2017 with guest Larry Soper who enjoyed the guess of which part was next as much as I with a shovel in hand . <div><div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivvGR8wvniUJq6ts32HfRPUjSTnn5b7o3s2waYgd8VP75sLfhRcupTD3tDHuosl-B8EyyyILPRzVBgZcUi2rxXpwR_k3NiY9JHwrtCORbohTrA63ux_OsvF9qSkLwgHbJGmAiHr_2sFQObkBYeN-56zWbjMuXnrqDqLDYWnxi11ws25UZqZBKT_wHz0-g5/s2016/IMG_4713.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivvGR8wvniUJq6ts32HfRPUjSTnn5b7o3s2waYgd8VP75sLfhRcupTD3tDHuosl-B8EyyyILPRzVBgZcUi2rxXpwR_k3NiY9JHwrtCORbohTrA63ux_OsvF9qSkLwgHbJGmAiHr_2sFQObkBYeN-56zWbjMuXnrqDqLDYWnxi11ws25UZqZBKT_wHz0-g5/s320/IMG_4713.jpg" width="240" /></a></div> Side view above showing the arc on this thicker down tapering T Bar than the previous example with the standard Bondy Center disc. This variant is slightly thicker than the standard Bondy all around . I am quite certain the High Noon Eagle disc was on this hybrid originally since there is almost no sign of solder and would only be on the two edges like the High Noon but with the slight arc a bit more surface area that if it was flat . I placed the High Noon Disc and it was a beautiful fit all around and dropped right in . <div>To support this initial theory even more we must go back to when I dug this clasp . I ended up digging the matching parts pictured above with a Five Tailed Soldered On Eagle disc . I strongly believe the disc broke off in the diggings below this camp and the belt came back and some how this other eagle disc was tried and shortly realizing that the disc was larger the parts were all discarded and possibly the entire belt . <div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxe1MafbD2ccxqv5QfOePRJmm3NufJ0M8TLPR4TUwj-RwwD5s2LplwEceZBb4wOJTIvvy0fXRku7mpI6uS2IehBKrRSUY272muiO6lSg82MTblG0kzXN88Og2rEy2Shc5HUX7Nz_DaK316waDkSM-QR7NxXekkHPhguJN6vkrUzoXMlW9bWen49WCqYGTL/s3816/IMG_E0350.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2858" data-original-width="3816" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxe1MafbD2ccxqv5QfOePRJmm3NufJ0M8TLPR4TUwj-RwwD5s2LplwEceZBb4wOJTIvvy0fXRku7mpI6uS2IehBKrRSUY272muiO6lSg82MTblG0kzXN88Og2rEy2Shc5HUX7Nz_DaK316waDkSM-QR7NxXekkHPhguJN6vkrUzoXMlW9bWen49WCqYGTL/s320/IMG_E0350.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Bondy variant above and incorrect center disc recovered together in a tight group.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Below you will find two different types of High Noon Eagle tongues and wreaths I felt should be noted .</div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwGEUg5X5f_ZWpmH2snvaNNpOn2rVOmHS50LSd74vX6KyhqMu7c6wgmDlfguPlSPBvPFcfczF030Jk7iFC8vL2IggM7RO0FCvX-v8wHVNJrZxTgJBNsjhXcRjGSVmxJTmLXaiEcRRxT_am5TXGFE3CnCK-TWXKdVDj-hfP8k9uI9OKoRWNwS3MIjZuuoSz/s2052/bondy%20dag.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2052" data-original-width="1242" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwGEUg5X5f_ZWpmH2snvaNNpOn2rVOmHS50LSd74vX6KyhqMu7c6wgmDlfguPlSPBvPFcfczF030Jk7iFC8vL2IggM7RO0FCvX-v8wHVNJrZxTgJBNsjhXcRjGSVmxJTmLXaiEcRRxT_am5TXGFE3CnCK-TWXKdVDj-hfP8k9uI9OKoRWNwS3MIjZuuoSz/s320/bondy%20dag.PNG" width="194" /></a></div> Above Daguerreotype of a California Gold Seeker wearing the Bondy clasp.This image is flipped therefore the wreath is on our left .<br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw55cixQ7vjuXjQypRA2HLKtvTTxRQm9wZEPOSF1JB9Loqat-j55amBSVGiUdiPhElrXXZJr2hJl6F1zcJf2vBMcjG7E7tFeXWGTHM1roWO-J8pXn8obrif12UMa4VZ_YQ4KrehIzb4qf39PD6-9ooyffhokh5yKO7B9WrpiB6Y3I6vDRb2GAnfcvtlidD/s2016/high%20noon%20b%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw55cixQ7vjuXjQypRA2HLKtvTTxRQm9wZEPOSF1JB9Loqat-j55amBSVGiUdiPhElrXXZJr2hJl6F1zcJf2vBMcjG7E7tFeXWGTHM1roWO-J8pXn8obrif12UMa4VZ_YQ4KrehIzb4qf39PD6-9ooyffhokh5yKO7B9WrpiB6Y3I6vDRb2GAnfcvtlidD/s320/high%20noon%20b%20(2).JPG" width="240" /></a></div> Above tapered leading edge and flat belt loops <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ECa3xNG2ssG0T349tQ_hqwGJJrPgj_6HCatfDHLBVHNKq3JBIR4xAQAWHMSepI83ILVaV-jb3fyW4VTkNMcsHAT47Men5ucEiYL4VuBFAa_3wR0aB5RVZUKubchH-h0xKeoMZtPHr_zl-Yua08FVq4bzeDv-bbChXGc3uNTkbRSBBr69nxI0Eu8D9P-8/s2016/high%20noon%20b%20(1).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDTafdxN_TFNczYJKs66FAD4-toknwAWDRTj5EcoKVeIKw-QIf3ZKG8vKX7Euq5t2T7VevDOUBCb5jX2E97rQrasOwLctH9mb92hxXKyIxwEU_h5-OaLrYYdE2H0Gpc9FGkH58nhR4V3aW6dhWEn4dlnYAjuGondbpr8f895DqHex4hFb858S_VSNUUDgH/s2016/high%20noon%20d.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDTafdxN_TFNczYJKs66FAD4-toknwAWDRTj5EcoKVeIKw-QIf3ZKG8vKX7Euq5t2T7VevDOUBCb5jX2E97rQrasOwLctH9mb92hxXKyIxwEU_h5-OaLrYYdE2H0Gpc9FGkH58nhR4V3aW6dhWEn4dlnYAjuGondbpr8f895DqHex4hFb858S_VSNUUDgH/s320/high%20noon%20d.JPG" width="240" /></a></div> The High Noon Eagle center disc<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKSb3ugH8WPVjVH5vAYjJGrRSYd-cyjptJG2lTJYlumLFcQCX946TY4585ouovBzoTnXdly_4mIkMD-INKp_DENSPuvz0OgA8dSnvpNGc5Helgwn4uqMLhTwdXTKwJev9tJtNjcpMKzV4ggSYoo1WdeGnRxk6w5nJNEMWI00QrxILVgRlacmEtcCthMSkt/s2016/high%20noon%20e.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKSb3ugH8WPVjVH5vAYjJGrRSYd-cyjptJG2lTJYlumLFcQCX946TY4585ouovBzoTnXdly_4mIkMD-INKp_DENSPuvz0OgA8dSnvpNGc5Helgwn4uqMLhTwdXTKwJev9tJtNjcpMKzV4ggSYoo1WdeGnRxk6w5nJNEMWI00QrxILVgRlacmEtcCthMSkt/s320/high%20noon%20e.JPG" width="240" /></a></div> Original tinned High Noon Eagle back <br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Rick ,</div><div>I want our work to stay together here so I will finally try and make time to wrap up what we started.</div><div>RIP </div><div><br /></div><div>Notes;</div><div><br /></div><div>I am not certain who owns the two Daguerreotypes at this time I am using as visual educational aids so there is nobody to credit at this time.</div><div><br /></div><div>The second image was removed from its case at a later date and revealed a wonderful Bondy clasp.</div><div><br /></div><div>The eagle center disc had quite a few names over the last 20 years and Harrson Cole came up with "High Noon Eagle" after he dug his first recently & it seams to have stuck.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div></div></div></div>Commission Merchanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01984523346875813236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-67967341230336513502024-02-01T21:59:00.000-08:002024-02-01T21:59:46.371-08:00<p><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> <b>UDOLPHO WOLFE</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">There are times when unexpected information pops up that is
encountered when least expected. About 15 years ago I found the following pages
in a book that most collectors of antique bottles may find interesting.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I published it in our local bottle club newsletter, which
was read by only a handful of people. I
believe that there are enough collectors who are familiar with the bottled
product of this man that it would have a general interest.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The name of our subject is Udolpho Wolfe, a <st1:state w:st="on">Virginia</st1:state> born businessman who moved to <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state> and made a huge fortune selling
gin. His secret was two-fold. Udolpho gave his gin a new name, “schnapps”,
which was apparently a colloquial word for gin that was commonly used in <st1:city w:st="on">Holland</st1:city>. His other secret was advertising. Udolpho’s advertisements appeared virtually
all over the world, which was a huge expense but paid off handsomely.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Udolpho’s will left his substantial company to David H.
Burke, his brother-in-law, and partner in the firm at the time of Udolpho’s
death on September 14, 1869. Burke, and
others, acted as executors of Udolpho’s estate for two years until Udolpho’s
only son, Joel Wolfe, reached a majority age, who then took charge of the
company.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">There is really no need to include pictures of his bottle
here, since most collectors have seen many examples. The earliest specimens are pontiled and the
latest are machine made. While the story of the man and his bottles deserves an
expanded treatise, the following recollections of him, by a fellow businessman,
and New Yorker, printed in 1885, gives some fascinating insight into his life.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The following biographical sketch explains the reason for
the subtle difference in the appearance of the Australian Udolpho Wolfe bottles
compared with those of the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> Wolfe’s manufacturing and bottling house in <st1:city w:st="on">Hamburg</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region>,
serviced all parts of the world except the <st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place>. The schnapps destined for the American market
was distilled in <st1:city w:st="on">Schiedam</st1:city>, <st1:city w:st="on">Holland</st1:city>,
and shipped in bulk to be bottled only for the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> market. On the subject of litigation it should be
noted that Wolfe’s schnapps was possibly the most imitated bottled product
known. As a result a great amount of
information on his schnapps and his imitators reside in numerous legal and
court documents scattered around the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> and the world. One day it would make a great research
project for someone.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>*Note: In several places a unit of measurement
called a “pipe” is referred to below.
One pipe equals approximately 126 gallons.</b></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZdP_jeVieUANydG6r_CKIL7FUBvYNOH2dHJkoX-9vILCJOjfRyk4Z9jg_EbZjnUADJRbTMZIDY-bS7tUYjmCSvARHZUJqwHYkAR5lja4oLMGj5ymLz_l9Hpyw4_HKI3J58M8IY2LT7m0EgAfjUy48SPZqYZHk1rviQE2A0mOPhm4AajnvVJ0xD9wL9gWF/s678/Wolfe00.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="525" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZdP_jeVieUANydG6r_CKIL7FUBvYNOH2dHJkoX-9vILCJOjfRyk4Z9jg_EbZjnUADJRbTMZIDY-bS7tUYjmCSvARHZUJqwHYkAR5lja4oLMGj5ymLz_l9Hpyw4_HKI3J58M8IY2LT7m0EgAfjUy48SPZqYZHk1rviQE2A0mOPhm4AajnvVJ0xD9wL9gWF/w496-h640/Wolfe00.jpg" width="496" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> Just one of the many lawsuits presented to the Wolfe company is presented in the article below. <i>Times-Picayune</i> (New Orleans, Louisiana), October 28, 1884</span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA9UfVFl_zEGjKu4lXL7Y65VJnxHJhf06_LMlw6nF5gMz0tgLf_ZNhg-LxmWY1RQcPUHW__AX7d99MneJ4LtrzFpqGhm5dgiPvtgEzqyNpKHilnomfV2laxbFnt8O-fFelMGjo3CTma9yjCh79tx5YiHh4PQNplSpSDkfSVl1mt8yV2ScF08Rl_iVDLrEN/s3275/Wolfe,%20Udolpho%2001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3275" data-original-width="783" height="1652" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA9UfVFl_zEGjKu4lXL7Y65VJnxHJhf06_LMlw6nF5gMz0tgLf_ZNhg-LxmWY1RQcPUHW__AX7d99MneJ4LtrzFpqGhm5dgiPvtgEzqyNpKHilnomfV2laxbFnt8O-fFelMGjo3CTma9yjCh79tx5YiHh4PQNplSpSDkfSVl1mt8yV2ScF08Rl_iVDLrEN/w565-h1652/Wolfe,%20Udolpho%2001.jpg" width="565" /></a></div><br /><o:p><br /></o:p><p></p>Eric McGuirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180656958989600662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-10198496284685483802023-12-29T14:32:00.000-08:002023-12-29T14:32:59.008-08:00<p> <b><span style="font-family: Rockwell; font-size: 26.0pt;">
THE OTHER CASSIN BOTTLE</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">By Eric McGuire</span><br />
<br />
<br />
It has been nearly 52 years since I first wrote about this bottle in THE
CORKER, the November 1972 issue of the newsletter of the Golden Gate Historical
Bottle Club. Back then the bottle was a curious rarity with
virtually no information available regarding its provenance. The
Cassin brothers were already famous in bottle collecting circles for their
Grape Brandy Bitters, Old Plantation Whiskey in glass and stoneware, and for a
rare variant of the Mills Bitters. The soda water bottle was so rare
and elusive that no one was sure if it was even a product of the San Francisco
Cassins, especially since it had a decided British style, with its typical
round bottom “torpedo” shape.<br />
<br />
By a stroke of luck I located an advertisement for the product in the April
1872 issue of the<i> Wine Dealers’ Gazette</i>,
a relatively obscure monthly trade newspaper published in <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city>. That find brought
me to publish my original short article in <i>The
Corker</i>.</p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">The first, and last,
advertisement found for the Cassin’s English Aerated Waters (<i> Wine Dealers’ Gazette</i>, San Francisco,
Calif., April 1872).</p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br />
There is one benefit to growing up, and growing old with an interest such as
antique bottles. One can track, over time, the relative numbers of a
particular bottle through digging, bottle sales, auctions and networking with
other collectors. Remarkably, this bottle is nearly as rare now as
it was fifty years ago. I have seen probably a handful in all that
time. The relatively simple advertisement that appeared in the <i>Wine Dealers’ Gazette</i> definitely
documented the origin of the product but little else. In the same
issue of the <i>Gazette</i> the editors
inserted a short article about the introduction of the product that I did not
publish previously. I quote from the <i>Gazette</i>:<br />
<br />
<b><i>English
Aerated Soda Water - What is it?</i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
<br />
In our advertising columns will be found a notice of the
introduction into this market, of the above named spring and summer
beverage. Samples are sent to us, which to the taste, are pleasant
and agreeable. We could not give them editorial indorsement, in a
sanitary sense, (being somewhat of a chemist ourself) until we were
assured of the materials from which they were manufactured.<br />
We are a little sensitive on the
subject of “Soda Water”, as we have suffered from its effects. We
inquired of Messrs. Cassin Brothers, the manufacturers, from what material they
made their Sodas. They appeared to be reticent, thinking as we
supposed, we were prying into their secrets. We then reminded them
that as editor of the GAZETTE, we conceived it to be our duty to inform the
public as to the healthfulness of all new beverages, such as they were offering
to the people. From further conversation, we are satisfied they have
imported the machinery for the new English process in manufacturing Sodas,
wherein the base is Carbonate of Potass. The new process consists,
in part of passing carbonic acid gas through a solution of the Sub Carbonate,
and evaporating at a temperature of 212 (degrees) to
crystallization. This new process is indorsed by English and German
chemists and European Pharmacologists, as a “wholesome effervescing
draught”. The base of the old style Soda was Sulphate of Potass or
Salt of Tartar.<br />
We have long known the
deleterious effects of many of our, so called, Soda Waters. Some are
made in the old style, even out of Bisulphate of Potass, which is nothing more
than a high character of Nitric Acid!<br />
This article is written by
the editor of the GAZETTE, not for pay, nor for the two dollar advertisement,
we believe there is in another column of this paper; but for the benefit of
Soda drinkers. We do not say, because we do not know positively,
that Messrs. Cassin & Co. have the machinery and process above alluded to,
for the manufacture of pure Soda Water; but from the reputation they bear, as
Front Street merchants, and the fact positively known to us, of the enlargement
of area of operations, and having sent to England and engaged a man to
manufacture Soda Water, it is fair, at least, to presume they are entitled to
the confidence of the public, and we believe they have the improved process,
and we believe they mean business.<br />
</span></i></b><br />
After all these years, I have seen no new information come to light regarding
this product. Production must have been very short-lived, as no
further advertisements were printed in the <i>Gazette</i>
or any other newspapers of general circulation. There were no
directory listings for the Cassins regarding the manufacture of soda
water. It must be assumed that the venture ceased operations shortly
after inception. Most of the bottles were likely returned to the Pacific
Glass Works for sale as frit, thereby making the few “escapees” rare
artifacts. A huge question remains as to why their soda water was
such an immediate failure.<br />
<br />
Frances and Patrick J. Cassin were born in <st1:city w:st="on">Dublin</st1:city>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Ireland</st1:country-region> and became caught up
in the lure of <st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place>
gold. Francis was the first to arrive, in 1849, and Patrick followed a few
years later. They both operated separately until late 1866 when they
formed their partnership. They are most famous for production of their Wild
Grape Root Bitters from 1867 to about 1872, and for the introduction of their
embossed bottle for OK Plantation Whiskey in 1874. The Cassin brothers
separated their partnership on October 8, 1880 when <st1:country-region w:st="on">Frances</st1:country-region> retired. He never married
but maintained a residence with his sister, Mary Cassin, in <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city>. After retirement he seemed to slip into
oblivion as no record of his death could be found. Patrick remained
in <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city>
and continued to operate a wholesale liquor company for a few
years. He later moved into real estate and maintained a saloon for
awhile. In 1878 the 45 year old Patrick married 18 year old Frances
Titus Cole in <st1:place w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:place>. Patrick died August 5, 1889, aged 56 years.<br />
<br />
This soda water bottle was not the last time the Cassin name appeared on products
of a decided English style. In 1883, Patrick Cassin imported tan and white
stoneware jugs from <st1:country-region w:st="on">England</st1:country-region>
for his O.K. Plantation Whiskey. He sold the whiskey, in the one
gallon, half-gallon and quart sized jugs at $5.00 for the gallon. (<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>, June 10, 1883) The gallon size is stamped with the name of <b>P.J. Cassin & Co., <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">433 Battery St.</st1:street>, <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city></st1:address></b>
and the name of the contents, <b>O.K.
Golden Plantation Whiskey</b>. This
marketing move was probably a final attempt to sell his remaining stock of <st1:place w:st="on">Plantation</st1:place> whiskey.<br />
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">The Cassin English
style soda water bottles are found in shades of very dark to light aqua. They are 9.5 inches in length and look very
much like their British counterparts, such as Ross’s, Webb’s and Cantrell &
Cochrane. It is plainly embossed CASSIN'S / ENGLISH / AERATED / WATERS</p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The rounded base has a small “dot” at the bottom,
which very likely was the location of a mold vent for escaping air as the
molten glass was blown against the mold</span>Eric McGuirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180656958989600662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-71481389828818896452023-11-25T13:26:00.000-08:002023-11-25T13:26:27.210-08:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">A VIST TO THE <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">SAN
FRANCISCO</st1:place></st1:city> GLASS WORKS</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Firsthand newspaper descriptions to the activities at
various glass works are available but not common. They are all different in how
the observer describes the event. This account, taken directly from the Russian
River Flag newspaper of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Healdsburg</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>printed on November 26, 1874, is one of the
best I have seen and I show it in its entirety. It is nicely detailed and
offers some new information about the San Francisco Glass Works as well.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQF5dhYg9s46wJsgw2fuLubcSJYrjAewxHbFhG-6aAnT-TJNI3dfllOfwrImdr_JBR1pNiJXCaDUWMzrDxpcwJkDObFPz886wglgajO4vVq5_fcV1NIFOdYaDK_HfkBzDtKwi8QBdB390A_qbnyKENR2vL72fS8DUy6ulroop0OI-YTfk7bAuptcI5rrM4/s2993/Bottle%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2993" data-original-width="1534" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQF5dhYg9s46wJsgw2fuLubcSJYrjAewxHbFhG-6aAnT-TJNI3dfllOfwrImdr_JBR1pNiJXCaDUWMzrDxpcwJkDObFPz886wglgajO4vVq5_fcV1NIFOdYaDK_HfkBzDtKwi8QBdB390A_qbnyKENR2vL72fS8DUy6ulroop0OI-YTfk7bAuptcI5rrM4/w328-h640/Bottle%201.jpg" width="328" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Ceribelli was born in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region>,
probably in Lombardia, about 1828, and likely departed <st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region> from the port city of <st1:city w:st="on">Genoa</st1:city> with his wife, Antonetta. The couple was living in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Buenos Aires</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Argentina</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
in 1870, when their first child, Joseph (Giuseppe) Ceribelli, was born.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;">His earliest
documentation in </span><st1:state style="font-size: x-large;" w:st="on">California</st1:state><span style="font-size: x-large;"> was in April 1873,
when he was appointed Postmaster for Burnett, in </span><st1:place style="font-size: x-large;" w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Santa Clara</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: x-large;">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">The first notation of his presence in <st1:city w:st="on">San Luis Obispo</st1:city> was in
June 1875, when he advertised the opening of his soda works.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidZLT3gd6jdPxl-SGC3E4CpWKN9J0fOYJ5w5QnVT9P8w-oysVOCviJSJ-xkNs0Xd4eftecAR1VIb8m3ADHMN8AtvP7Sr31jWnnrW-V7JOexfscR4wiQre2M0JQhBa3b4iJVE3cIP5OfZ-q47IUaex3XL4XgsUbihpzAqa7KsPtkp57AZjkEiq_bPT5g3MN/s481/Ceribelli%2002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidZLT3gd6jdPxl-SGC3E4CpWKN9J0fOYJ5w5QnVT9P8w-oysVOCviJSJ-xkNs0Xd4eftecAR1VIb8m3ADHMN8AtvP7Sr31jWnnrW-V7JOexfscR4wiQre2M0JQhBa3b4iJVE3cIP5OfZ-q47IUaex3XL4XgsUbihpzAqa7KsPtkp57AZjkEiq_bPT5g3MN/w486-h640/Ceribelli%2002.jpg" width="486" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">Ceribelli's first advertisement for his soda works<br /> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><st1:city style="font-size: x-large;" w:st="on"><i>San Luis Obispo</i></st1:city><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i> Tribune</i>
(Weekly), June 5, 1875</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">In June 1878,
Ceribelli advertised his new store in <st1:place w:st="on">San
Luis Obispo</st1:place>, now located on <st1:street w:st="on">Higuera Street</st1:street>, adjoining the store of
W.E. Stewart (<i>San Luis Obispo Tribune</i>,
June 8, 1878). The 1880 U.S. Census for <st1:city w:st="on">San
Luis Obispo</st1:city> documents Santo as a liquor merchant. Although he was still producing soda water he probably found that selling wine and whiskey was a much less demanding occupation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">He purchased
property in <st1:city w:st="on">San Luis Obispo</st1:city>
in 1877 and 1881. Markota notes that L.
Martin purchased the San Luis Obispo Soda Works in 1883, presumably from Ceribelli.
He did, in fact, sell his business to Luther Martin in October 1881.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqkrv6yUAjP7qECAb02f4RBSC5t_CxHbn4WHDXra4DSaE3ke-7eYBGjCs8SXezB9zmmdTueT1JsQHxgm7TJDB3mItZqVYGmYr_zOm_21JQYHzbwPFCs2TKFZNl_PRv-11-WqgPua6B4EqQPcpbkbApg45jK4g2ryjrmeMIf6JOGh-x9BXG0omMBk6jFnN4/s386/Ceribelli%2007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="386" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqkrv6yUAjP7qECAb02f4RBSC5t_CxHbn4WHDXra4DSaE3ke-7eYBGjCs8SXezB9zmmdTueT1JsQHxgm7TJDB3mItZqVYGmYr_zOm_21JQYHzbwPFCs2TKFZNl_PRv-11-WqgPua6B4EqQPcpbkbApg45jK4g2ryjrmeMIf6JOGh-x9BXG0omMBk6jFnN4/w640-h486/Ceribelli%2007.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><st1:city style="text-align: left;" w:st="on"><i>San Luis Obispo</i></st1:city><span style="text-align: left;"><i> Tribune</i>
(Weekly), October 29,1881</span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> On the subject of his soda water venture, Ceribelli posted this unusual statement in a Los Angeles newspaper.</span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">“<i>To My Friends and
the Public<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Having come here
from <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city> with the intention of opening
a Soda Water Factory in <st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place>,
I regret to be obliged to announce that failing health has forced me to give up
the enterprise. I am glad to be able to
say that I have effected a sale of my machine and outfit to Mr. Stoll, who, by
the way, I see sells his goods as cheap as such things are sold in San
Francisco.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>
S. Cerebelli”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">(<i>Los Angeles
Herald</i>, June 30, 1883)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC9LxNKQL9cWxjsPwlkA84C6plc0Xh4yWlQb8VId8H1_Wsip5dlowPi5L-4My5lKRBP_t2cuMAwavQmd4FccMvzP_GiJgtt85iU9WMwf8A7h7OZyWyR6m_RsT0_kAfPsGXx2RKk7E8kas_4IIgZRockhJqddmFkMglY5YQY8OlmFrFRWZSq6ucVA4qVnq8/s3606/IMG_9002a.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3606" data-original-width="1938" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC9LxNKQL9cWxjsPwlkA84C6plc0Xh4yWlQb8VId8H1_Wsip5dlowPi5L-4My5lKRBP_t2cuMAwavQmd4FccMvzP_GiJgtt85iU9WMwf8A7h7OZyWyR6m_RsT0_kAfPsGXx2RKk7E8kas_4IIgZRockhJqddmFkMglY5YQY8OlmFrFRWZSq6ucVA4qVnq8/w344-h640/IMG_9002a.JPG" width="344" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="background-color: white; color: #161719; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ceribelli had his soda water bottles produced in San Francisco. Only one variant has been found, indicating that he likely placed only one order with the glassworks due to short business activity.</span></span></o:p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Ceribelli continued
his residence in </span><st1:city style="font-size: x-large;" w:st="on">San Luis Obispo</st1:city><span style="font-size: x-large;">
for several more years while he sold the remainder of his wine and liquor
stock. His final advertisements, in 1885, gave notice of liquidation of his
business, with the note that, “</span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Mr
CEREBELLI is compelled to visit <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> to
attend to important family matters, and therefore offers this opportunity to
buyers</i><span style="font-size: x-large;">.” Nothing more was located about Santo Cerribelli, the soda water
manufacturer of </span><st1:city style="font-size: x-large;" w:st="on">San Luis Obispo</st1:city><span style="font-size: x-large;">.
</span><st1:state style="font-size: x-large;" w:st="on">California</st1:state><span style="font-size: x-large;">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It is assumed that Ceribelli and his wife and children, returned to Italy, as no further information could be located.</span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Not until 1902 does
the youngest son, Santo Cerribelli, jr., return to the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States.</st1:country-region> Santo, jr. was born in <st1:city w:st="on">San Luis
Obispo</st1:city> on May 7, 1878, which made him a U.S. citizen. After his return to the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> he stated that his plan was to go back to <st1:city w:st="on">San Luis Obispo</st1:city>. He may
have, but Santo quickly returned to <st1:city w:st="on">New
York City</st1:city>. He
spent most of his life there as an
importer, initially working for an Italian relative, Giacomo Ceribelli, who
probably resided in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Milan</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place>. The company was styled G. Ceribelli & Co., with Santo jr. heading up the New York branch. The company was a major
supplier of Ferro China Bisleri, a popular aperitif, until the onset of
prohibition in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
Santo jr. also maintained a summer house
in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Darien</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">CT.</st1:state></st1:place>
The 1930 <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
census documents Santo as a chemist in the drug business. He lived a life in the world of high society,
residing at <st1:street w:st="on">895 Park Avenue</st1:street> in <st1:place w:st="on">Manhattan</st1:place>. By 1942 (per his draft registration card) he
was still working for G. Ceribelli & Co., at <st1:street w:st="on">121 Varick Street</st1:street> in <st1:city w:st="on">New York City</st1:city>, which was acting as an agent
for A. Brioschi & Co. He eventually became president of A. Brioschi &
Co., pharmaceutical manufac</span>turers. <span style="font-size: large;">Santo, Jr. died in <st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place> in April 1953.</span><o:p></o:p></p>Eric McGuirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180656958989600662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-50199473727483150392023-07-31T17:12:00.000-07:002023-07-31T17:12:49.233-07:00<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> NICHOLS’
INFALLIBLE INJECTION</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">The Hawley family was first noted in <st1:city w:st="on">San
Francisco</st1:city> in 1856 when the father of our subject, Hawley William
Baxter, was listed in the <st1:city w:st="on">San
Francisco</st1:city> city directory as a “boarding house keeper”
at <st1:street w:st="on">26 Battery Street</st1:street>.
He was noted at the same address until his untimely death on November 17, 1858,
which must have created an extreme hardship for his wife and children. Hawley’s
widow, Louisa L. Baxter, continued to maintain the boarding house for a few
years, and by 1860, her oldest child, Edward Hawes Baxter, began his career as a
clerk with the drug firm of Crane & Brigham in <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city> – just sixteen years of age. By
1865, Louisa’s second oldest son, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Hawley</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">“</st1:placename><st1:placetype w:st="on">Hall</st1:placetype><st1:placename w:st="on">”</st1:placename></st1:place> William Baxter, jr., also secured a
position with Crane & Brigham. In time, Edward Hawes Baxter found his niche as a drug salesman and Hall W.
Baxter chose financial work, becoming a bookkeeper for Crane & Brigham.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Each brother maintained their respective positions with
Crane & Brigham until 1879 when some occupational changes occurred. In the
case of this sketch the most significant change was Edward H. Baxter’s decision
to enter the patent medicine business himself, but continuing his tenure with
Crane & Brigham as a drug salesman. He received Federal Label Registration No.
2096, on October 29, 1879, for NICHOLS INFALLIBLE INJECTION, which was
advertised as a “sure cure for Gonorrhea, Gleet and the Whites”. As a traveling
salesman for Crane & Brigham, Baxter had an excellent opportunity to sell
his own product to drug stores while he was doing the same for his employer.
While this activity does not appear completely ethical, it apparently worked,
at least for a while.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilZt31pRxC_7v6YSiJSpDnFsJJPILOA4pKgfXSawWPJd7GKb3HUiEjJcd4YM4cK-lPIVYig6LAoNoy2Prv4uKSdKctvOuepH73y8gaHkTiSRhZhx9d86iaKDVUzNJ7Jp84mVA2hxa_p5k5QW4IL-N-ACZdlrd17GN90lG-LvAcURCPBuB0QTOcbMBAmobQ/s1504/Baxter%2015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="871" data-original-width="1504" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilZt31pRxC_7v6YSiJSpDnFsJJPILOA4pKgfXSawWPJd7GKb3HUiEjJcd4YM4cK-lPIVYig6LAoNoy2Prv4uKSdKctvOuepH73y8gaHkTiSRhZhx9d86iaKDVUzNJ7Jp84mVA2hxa_p5k5QW4IL-N-ACZdlrd17GN90lG-LvAcURCPBuB0QTOcbMBAmobQ/w640-h370/Baxter%2015.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Baxter did not rely
heavily on newspaper advertisements, however; a few were noted for a period of
about 12 years in <st1:state w:st="on">California, </st1:state><st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Arizona, and Washington, but mostly in Nevada.</st1:place></st1:state> This early
example is typical of most. (<i>Humboldt
Times</i>, January 8, 1880) The last ads appeared in 1892.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6tCdoSrRFQtW23dMxZ_BLeTGpw31wzKkl3o_aX49BMOM78Q4z3MpReJz5f_Sqbox8GWzplqx6iWEPu9_g_odaQRrj2tBbHytuL3eHUQxXUyOgclVhNe-0qxzMGIjzHo4QeX9h57puFgTe95gUVWadZUU27N0-uh6W86hiuUccRriBqJmOJjTQTEnxQQRM/s2383/Baxter%2014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2383" data-original-width="842" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6tCdoSrRFQtW23dMxZ_BLeTGpw31wzKkl3o_aX49BMOM78Q4z3MpReJz5f_Sqbox8GWzplqx6iWEPu9_g_odaQRrj2tBbHytuL3eHUQxXUyOgclVhNe-0qxzMGIjzHo4QeX9h57puFgTe95gUVWadZUU27N0-uh6W86hiuUccRriBqJmOJjTQTEnxQQRM/w226-h640/Baxter%2014.jpg" width="226" /></a></b></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">A copy of the label was registered in 1879 by Baxter for his Infallible Injection. Why the name Nichols was used has not been verified. It may reflect the name of Jesse
Christie Nichols, an <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Oakland</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>, druggist who died on March 4, 1890. Aside from the potential desperation some users of this medicine may have had, the high cost of the item is partly reflected in the fact that a syringe was also included in the package.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Edward H. Baxter’s younger brother, Hall W. Baxter, jr.,
left the employ of Crane & Brigham in 1880 and became a payment receiver
for the Spring Valley Water Works, one of several domestic water companies that
serviced the city of <st1:place w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:place>.
He opened the No Percentage Pharmacy in 1891 and in January 1896 he also took over Henry Fox’s Red Front Drug
Store in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Healdsburg</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>. He sold the Red Front Drug Store
after about one year then opened the Ferry Drug Co. in <st1:place w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:place>. At nearly the same time he
purchased the No Percentage Pharmacy in <st1:city w:st="on">San
Francisco</st1:city>, as well as continuing with his cashier
position for the Spring Valley Water Works. Hall W. Baxter, jr., died in <st1:place w:st="on">San Rafael</st1:place> on May 26, 1901.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, Edward H. Baxter, the prime subject of this
sketch, left Crane & Brigham about 1881 and went to work for its major
competitor, Redington & Co., for about one year, and then worked for
Langley & Michaels, yet another large <st1:place w:st="on">San
Francisco</st1:place> drug company, still acting as a salesman,
until 1894. Baxter married the widow Fannie Lathrop Wright on August 9, 1893, in
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Tulare County</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>. Then, in 1895 he went to work
for his brother, Hall W. Baxter, at the No Percentage Pharmacy in <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city>, until 1898.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">One last entrepreneurial attempt occurred in 1899 when
Edward H. Baxter opened a store described as “merchandise specialties, electric
belts, rubber goods, etc.” This activity sounds like a drugstore without a
prescription service. Baxter died on January 3, 1906, just missing the devastation
caused by the great earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6_sLDkfkMXSP2k2aDGOAZyFXDocT7tyNc4NbhHEE5l284-gCUKXPTWLdhXg2HKwKMyRejlBYM89vT4ZjRQJSDZ6dhZV0lhdYvgJ7lWFAYfeD2yudDcwCURuOVWqlJ_vVQ6mEhiTZzUfPomDLeqZ4GW4vcJUSwNtyOYHlhLxG56DbeneowGKc6FLnZuPts/s1871/Baxter%2018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1450" data-original-width="1871" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6_sLDkfkMXSP2k2aDGOAZyFXDocT7tyNc4NbhHEE5l284-gCUKXPTWLdhXg2HKwKMyRejlBYM89vT4ZjRQJSDZ6dhZV0lhdYvgJ7lWFAYfeD2yudDcwCURuOVWqlJ_vVQ6mEhiTZzUfPomDLeqZ4GW4vcJUSwNtyOYHlhLxG56DbeneowGKc6FLnZuPts/w640-h496/Baxter%2018.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Baxter’s widow,
Fannie Lathrop Baxter, continued with her husband’s former business until 1913,
eventually focusing on just electric belts, which were then a popular health
item. (<i>San Francisco Call</i>, 8 August
8, 1909)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">As part of a pioneering family, Fannie was born in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">San Mateo County</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>,
in 1855. (birth name, Fannie Rhodes Lathrop) She was the daughter of Benjamin
Gordon Lathrop who arrived in <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>
in 1849 via wagon train. She had no children with Edward H. Baxter, but several
with her first husband, Sampson Boone Wright. In 1917 she moved from <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city> to Calistoga and finally to <st1:city w:st="on">Santa Rosa</st1:city> to be closer to her children. Fanny died in <st1:city w:st="on">Santa Rosa</st1:city>
on June 8, 1949.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Curiously, the youngest brother of Edward H. Baxter, who was
Charles Ethan Allen Baxter, born about 1848 in New York, is listed in the
California Great Register of Voters, as a druggist in Bodie, California, in
1879. He died an untimely death on September 27, 1880, in <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city>. His young daughter, Eva May Baxter, had died
in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Virginia City</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Nevada</st1:state></st1:place>, just 10 days earlier, on September
17. One has to wonder if there wasn’t some connection between these two deaths.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The bottle is 7.5 inches tall and embossed on one of the two
‘side’ panels, “NICHOL’S
INJECTION". The opposite panel is inset to accommodate an accompanying syringe.
A pressed glass dose cup was probably fit over the applied top of the bottle to complete
the package. Several of these cups have been found in the West.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNAtz6JnJuAetO6eRSgmaxJE7Waj95GsCHOrsvX2W2up-l52H81Ra5ZJLT9Br0UPlklM56EJy1xjmlT8wyxSvZ2_LGQjCpgfnZn3BRKAiNH-ACmGQiXypGYHAPvrftD0q7Ru6g_K0NvCJ4pWEDN3czxV4yh-EEYfPqBckfXHd7m542uuxbVUuYZffKQLWh/s3719/IMG_0296.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3719" data-original-width="1884" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNAtz6JnJuAetO6eRSgmaxJE7Waj95GsCHOrsvX2W2up-l52H81Ra5ZJLT9Br0UPlklM56EJy1xjmlT8wyxSvZ2_LGQjCpgfnZn3BRKAiNH-ACmGQiXypGYHAPvrftD0q7Ru6g_K0NvCJ4pWEDN3czxV4yh-EEYfPqBckfXHd7m542uuxbVUuYZffKQLWh/w324-h640/IMG_0296.jpg" width="324" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A second bottle is also known. It is in the same
configuration as the previously shown example except for an alteration to the
embossed lettering. It reads NICHOLS’ INFALLIBLE INJECTION. With the word
“Infallible” added it also moves the possessive apostrophe to more correctly
represent the word “Nichols”. </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">The bottles are very likely a product of the San Francisco
& Pacific Glass Works, and had there been the letter “R” in the lettering,
it would no doubt have a signature curved leg typical of many bottles produced
in molds engraved by an unknown <st1:city w:st="on">San
Francisco</st1:city> craftsman.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8WNSLgK3VH9f0WN9zzvhqwAxeOQaRDrfytiQNnXXRRg3yl6QfAlx5vYGX1rg-m5aRummkXJwL_x5vHQXZTmcLGGryERaS7_JMSScChWBcpY87gWex9zpVzSLHQZ4e7fMdskZX0bLzMwDEvXolEXku4doz_WrdThG-kNrjGwsETMMGUhe2GpuojhR31G4y/s3897/IMG_0301%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3897" data-original-width="2334" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8WNSLgK3VH9f0WN9zzvhqwAxeOQaRDrfytiQNnXXRRg3yl6QfAlx5vYGX1rg-m5aRummkXJwL_x5vHQXZTmcLGGryERaS7_JMSScChWBcpY87gWex9zpVzSLHQZ4e7fMdskZX0bLzMwDEvXolEXku4doz_WrdThG-kNrjGwsETMMGUhe2GpuojhR31G4y/w384-h640/IMG_0301%20(1).jpg" width="384" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>Eric McGuirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180656958989600662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-78970541338018894512023-07-23T10:09:00.002-07:002023-07-23T10:09:42.249-07:00<p><b> <span style="font-size: x-large;">THE STAR REMEDIES</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Two related medicinal bottles are found in this ‘package’.
STAR REMEDY NO. 1, and STAR REMEDY NO. 2. Although heavily advertised
throughout the west for about one year, from August 1877 to August 1878, both
bottles are relatively rare. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPt3xgHheq3kfxHAsTTEH3KbzRdpVw-G74JnGksVkfuhD-LsOtX2Vw8m-P-cTXYLfuPjvQOov_5m6YZBR592JwbwhDatdqNfnVNWa0XgTgJd0V68H14IJQh0eGW39IR4nROxsT05PH0AGCd5YQa3LhVpuJMUJjpC2IXfP2NodIOv14oYIpWsWwHXmfWUBK/s700/trout%20oil%20liniment02a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="700" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPt3xgHheq3kfxHAsTTEH3KbzRdpVw-G74JnGksVkfuhD-LsOtX2Vw8m-P-cTXYLfuPjvQOov_5m6YZBR592JwbwhDatdqNfnVNWa0XgTgJd0V68H14IJQh0eGW39IR4nROxsT05PH0AGCd5YQa3LhVpuJMUJjpC2IXfP2NodIOv14oYIpWsWwHXmfWUBK/w640-h389/trout%20oil%20liniment02a.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Advertisements such
as this often peppered newspapers throughout the West during the one year
period. Of great interest and causing some frustration, the advertisements
never reveal the proprietors of the medicines, although some note that
Redington & <st1:place w:st="on">Co.</st1:place> were the wholesale agents.
(<i>Virginia Evening Chronicle</i>, Virginia
City, Nevada, August 8, 1877)</span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Perhaps considered the least desirable of the duo is Dr VAN
DYKE’S / ANTIBILIOUS CURE / * REMEDY No
1. While it is embossed with the coveted word, CURE, the bottle lacks any
pictorial embossing, aside from a five point star. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnZO9sNxO2uXv2yE82C7fm2fJE_BVq7hUDmA5cC7wPRDMa8WFN2s6fOJbBljQey_mqEv14wrvFo2v_T4uMpe4TiQr3kAwEgLaO6tJlDLT5oNcF8-rXXFnaaCfOZfQma_GC1gZF1uadYdKces-C23FRfcXb4pb21MHrXURSjEI8JPOWBGJkizKawhOL9zzS/s1510/Trout%20Oil%20Liniment03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="870" data-original-width="1510" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnZO9sNxO2uXv2yE82C7fm2fJE_BVq7hUDmA5cC7wPRDMa8WFN2s6fOJbBljQey_mqEv14wrvFo2v_T4uMpe4TiQr3kAwEgLaO6tJlDLT5oNcF8-rXXFnaaCfOZfQma_GC1gZF1uadYdKces-C23FRfcXb4pb21MHrXURSjEI8JPOWBGJkizKawhOL9zzS/w640-h368/Trout%20Oil%20Liniment03.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The reverse of a
trade card for the Star Remedies.</span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeyBu-ryAcr33JNKdjqtdfVSg_eIl0qhrZI_4rwabUFx_XNWnpikTbcpJFfRoSQ_sIvyTCqiaNI69pbW7gMqOlVp2Twc-N18AAOrMjo72CFikaTKfihCal093kaNiBumxcUmTUqUadQNaPfXyn5r_88pD4ZCBvwxIbeoPFI1NaUNXS8KIRZWFerSen_Fij/s3852/IMG_0247%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3852" data-original-width="2010" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeyBu-ryAcr33JNKdjqtdfVSg_eIl0qhrZI_4rwabUFx_XNWnpikTbcpJFfRoSQ_sIvyTCqiaNI69pbW7gMqOlVp2Twc-N18AAOrMjo72CFikaTKfihCal093kaNiBumxcUmTUqUadQNaPfXyn5r_88pD4ZCBvwxIbeoPFI1NaUNXS8KIRZWFerSen_Fij/w334-h640/IMG_0247%20(2).jpg" width="334" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Undoubtedly blown at
the San Francisco & Pacific Glass Works in 1877 is Dr. Van Dykes
Antibilious Cure. About 6 ¼ inches in height, it is made of typical western
aqua glass with applied top.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm3cZnS386cL8bWZVpKmfvRSUnA7039975OjanMxpJFd3P8iCxlg96sG_PJcwat_Ywt0DaCZaomOiB0aorAPnDP9rMYPjyateakN3AvuWrl1n4gZwO7V5OkaXVbgbD1NDb3oIZ18nncOQI9J99ZlF5QSKLyFAKaX-Ts6DU_N0CMIgjRWqYmgtHNNSa0Rci/s3900/IMG_0251%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3900" data-original-width="1860" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm3cZnS386cL8bWZVpKmfvRSUnA7039975OjanMxpJFd3P8iCxlg96sG_PJcwat_Ywt0DaCZaomOiB0aorAPnDP9rMYPjyateakN3AvuWrl1n4gZwO7V5OkaXVbgbD1NDb3oIZ18nncOQI9J99ZlF5QSKLyFAKaX-Ts6DU_N0CMIgjRWqYmgtHNNSa0Rci/w306-h640/IMG_0251%20(2).jpg" width="306" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The second bottle is
the coveted Star Remedy No. 2. Embossed on a large panel is the depiction of a <st1:place w:st="on">Lake Tahoe</st1:place> trout, with a five point star at about the
location of the fish gill. Embossed on the side panels is, TROUT OIL LINIMENT /
(STAR) REMEDY No 2.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;">While, in reality, the fish essence contained in these
bottles could have been sourced anywhere, it was likely taken from <st1:place w:st="on">Lake Tahoe</st1:place>. At the
time of production of the liniment, Tahoe fish were being harvested by the ton.
Not only were commercial nets being used, long-line fishing was also practiced.
Yet another devastating harvesting process was also underway. The indigenous
Washoe tribe had fished <st1:place w:st="on">Lake Tahoe</st1:place> for millennia
and they knew how to do it well. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It was not until the new Americans came on the scene did the
natives indulge in “over-fishing” induced by economic incentives from the white
market hunters. With payment in the form of money and whiskey, the natives enjoyed
their newly found wealth while the fishing lasted. However, the glory days were
soon shortened by the lack of product. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I strongly recommend the reader look at a newspaper article
on this subject of market fishing written by the recognized early ‘environmentalist’
Charles F. McGlashan, that appeared in the <i>Sacramento
Daily Union</i>, on June 8, 1877. It may
just be a coincidence that this article was written at about the same time as
the Trout Oil Liniment was being produced. And, it may also be a coincidence
that sales of the liniment appears to have disappeared within a year, just as the heyday
of commercial fishing in the lake came to an end. But, one has to wonder.</span></p>Eric McGuirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180656958989600662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-37142734173683358912023-06-26T18:25:00.001-07:002023-06-26T18:30:08.937-07:00<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> CLASSEN SPARKLING</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">This unusual bottle has had many collectors bewildered with
precisely what it represents. They are not very numerous and the majority were
found in the ‘big dig’ of about 1998 in <st1:place w:st="on">San
Francisco</st1:place>. Most have been found in blue with nearly as
many in aqua. Embossed CLASSEN & Co. SPARKLING, surrounding crossed
anchors, one doesn’t have to guess it is a product of the soda water maker,
James Milton Classen. While his story is interesting, I would like to just
focus on this one product. Classen was born in <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state>
and, like so many Easterners, got caught in the lure of gold in <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>. While establishing a successful soda water business in <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city>, he returned to his hometown
several times.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1863 Classen left control of his Pacific Soda Works to
his partner, John Rohe, and returned to <st1:state w:st="on">New
York</st1:state> for nearly two years. While there, he created
another somewhat complementary product for his business in <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city>. It wasn’t
exactly the same and I am guessing he saw it as a potentially new market
product. He devised the bottles and designed labels for the product which he
copyrighted to prevent protection from possible counterfitting. On November 12,
1865, he received federal protection for his Anchor Brand sparkling cider.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7cVIP6lyPDZummdmWdr_J_BWfgql2z9Ij4xoDJ60yXO2LhZc_kWIqqE5FNu4wNEFokqG61q9d9TXTgb5W1IryUkOcMqGWx14iRO71I2pziFxYXSnhTelxC8Os7psRSKvuxvCvO7AG2EMal6yR-KsqKDDtAnTKf4K8JB6O0kE-BaM0oHAcFVVL-pJ_HpXN/s3876/IMG_0013%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3876" data-original-width="1993" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7cVIP6lyPDZummdmWdr_J_BWfgql2z9Ij4xoDJ60yXO2LhZc_kWIqqE5FNu4wNEFokqG61q9d9TXTgb5W1IryUkOcMqGWx14iRO71I2pziFxYXSnhTelxC8Os7psRSKvuxvCvO7AG2EMal6yR-KsqKDDtAnTKf4K8JB6O0kE-BaM0oHAcFVVL-pJ_HpXN/w330-h640/IMG_0013%20(1).jpg" width="330" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Embossed as noted above, the bottles appear very similar to
soda water bottles of the day, with the biggest exception being a more refined
top. A big question remains about whether the bottles were designed for single
use. Was the cider a product of the East or were the bottles filled in the
West? The labels are very clear that it was a product of <st1:state w:st="on">New
York</st1:state> for the <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>
market. This seems a little incredulous with regard to the expense involved,
especially if the bottles were for single use. Of course, he may have shipped
the bottles while empty along with barrels of cider, and bottled the product at
his soda works in <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city>.
The answer is not clear.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZOVFV44ehFjLbIr4cxMRAPDmfY3ZIuH15PuLT24-3gdpz8SCyh-RhyF1RDq7ddB2ZIVappm5FUo7x392IMy2E1NQFLEtIFkAjhAFlNHqFercAveOHn1_5_hK02xZzjFtKzrtxCk5kGiL__7dRgHMP751xAwXvcTCK3RP63Nx1f7Esz-qStsw28qQNLU0d/s3057/Classen%2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2324" data-original-width="3057" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZOVFV44ehFjLbIr4cxMRAPDmfY3ZIuH15PuLT24-3gdpz8SCyh-RhyF1RDq7ddB2ZIVappm5FUo7x392IMy2E1NQFLEtIFkAjhAFlNHqFercAveOHn1_5_hK02xZzjFtKzrtxCk5kGiL__7dRgHMP751xAwXvcTCK3RP63Nx1f7Esz-qStsw28qQNLU0d/w640-h486/Classen%2011.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">This label was submitted to the U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of California as an example of his federally protected copyright.
While it is true that Classen did not avail himself of the recently adopted
trade mark law for <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>,
however; there was no federal trade mark protection until 1870. It was not
unusual for proprietors to use federal copyright laws for interstate protection
since <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>
trade marks were only enforceable within the State. Copyrights provided
interstate protection. He apparently knew the law well for Classen had already
received a trade mark in 1863 for his Pacific Soda Works bottles, which he
never planned for use beyond the State boundary.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">The sparkling cider project was apparently not successful as
it was short-lived. No newspaper advertisements were located for the project
which was a kiss of death. Nineteenth-century marketing depended heavily on
reaching out to the public through papers. It is not clear when Classen became
disillusioned with the soda water business, but by 1867 he exited the Pacific
Soda Works and left it to his partner, John Rohe. Classen had already dabbled
in the real estate business by this time and he saw a much better road to
success. For the following twenty years, he became a successful ‘capitalist’,
and is even noted as a ‘stock broker' in the 1880 <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
census for <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city>.
Unfortunately, he let most of his wealth slip, and by the time he died, on
September 9, 1891, he had little left. His wife was forced to take up residence
in the “Old People’s Home of San Francisco”, where she slipped into oblivion in
1905.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMgWLxi3Tz79XEAHLaL4uM8wI2EKy3y_Rmp2q4qOOSKLMkN4GmCMCUNuhm94aMy0j_jXBovVbZrLiu5CwDmGTetYRMKhK14FNv-_8E1SHFMRnKI9xGy1YtvcME8c85Dxcxj8di6XKAEvhqKzeKO_yH3GJv9fGbx-6YQ_Rx-_myiTUXIbxihSQIgyORE0Sa/s728/Classen%2003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="728" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMgWLxi3Tz79XEAHLaL4uM8wI2EKy3y_Rmp2q4qOOSKLMkN4GmCMCUNuhm94aMy0j_jXBovVbZrLiu5CwDmGTetYRMKhK14FNv-_8E1SHFMRnKI9xGy1YtvcME8c85Dxcxj8di6XKAEvhqKzeKO_yH3GJv9fGbx-6YQ_Rx-_myiTUXIbxihSQIgyORE0Sa/w640-h234/Classen%2003.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">The dissolution notice of the partnership of the Pacific
Soda Works. Rohe became the sole owner but closed the business after a few
years and then became a trustee of the newly formed Bay City Soda Water
Company, . . .a corporation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>Eric McGuirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180656958989600662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-32944057165727270652023-06-22T14:48:00.001-07:002023-06-22T14:48:43.876-07:00<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <b>COLUSA SODA WORKS</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Small town soda water works in <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state> seldom used embossed bottles as
far back as the 1870’s. One exception is the river town of <st1:city w:st="on">Colusa</st1:city>,
the governmental seat of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Colusa</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place>. Located on the <st1:place w:st="on">Sacramento River</st1:place>, it was a shipping port for an extensive
agricultural region in the central Sacramento Valley of California.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Little is known about the original proprietors of the works.
The primary player was Jonathan Leonard Poulson. He seemed to prefer using only
his initials, “J.L.” and his last name was commonly mis-spelled, which creates
a challenge in researching the man. He was the son of Henry “John” and Elizabeth Cox Poulson, born
in <st1:place w:st="on">Ohio</st1:place> on
July 8, 1847, and like most men of his age Poulson served in the Civil War, as
a private in Co G 178th Ohio Infantry. He enlisted August 26, 1864 and mustered
out June 29, 1865, at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Charlotte</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:state></st1:place>. Poulson then
moved to <st1:state w:st="on">Iowa</st1:state> for a few years and then
relocated to <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>
about 1869.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Poulson is first noted in California when documented in the
1871 Great Register for Yuba County, listed as a 23 year old farmer born in
Ohio, and living in New York Township. Poulson is known to have been in Colusa
at least by October 1874, when his name was listed in the local newspaper,
noting that undelivered mail was waiting for him at the post office.(<i>Weekly Colusa Sun</i>, October 17, 1874).
The Letter List was a common feature in newspapers alerting residents that mail
needed to be retrieved. It was probably about this time that Poulson went to
work as a driver for the Colusa to <st1:city w:st="on">Chico</st1:city>
stage line. The job was difficult with a variety of perils including stormy
weather conditions, robberies, vehicular mishaps and passenger issues, not to
mention long and tiring hours. For at least these reasons Poulson decided to
switch professions. The local newspaper reported . . . . “<i>Leon Poulson, of the Colusa Stage, who has been driving between <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chico</st1:place></st1:city> and Colusa for a
considerable time, has resigned his position as knight of the ribbons, and will
start a soda factory at Colusa</i>”. (<i>Chico
Weekly Enterprise</i>, March 16, 1877). “Knight of the ribbons” was a slang
expression for a stage driver, implying a master of roads.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Poulson’s partner in this new venture was Asa Brower, born
about 1843 in <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state>.
Prior to partnering with Poulson in the soda water business he was described as a painter. (1870 U.S. Census for Grafton Twp., Woodland, California) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">The most significant newspaper item located that concerned the
establishment of the Colusa Soda Works was printed in 1877.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEeOePD6Z_KWnBut5CM_4xQPHM8ifVGSD1dPk0gETndko340HrNzu6qDlo4Sop-st370gJreiOnwI4MOyAXLsqXAKoNlzdWfGif4JnRv0pKwvIM81VdrX9-cb_lFXfAWKuGezfU3qWnaPcldDJ3kR5nW4ls4lzE_CtSVl5Hf-gTG5NCUuY2l2_q9SB_0RD/s617/Colusa%20Soda%20Wks%2020.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="617" height="594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEeOePD6Z_KWnBut5CM_4xQPHM8ifVGSD1dPk0gETndko340HrNzu6qDlo4Sop-st370gJreiOnwI4MOyAXLsqXAKoNlzdWfGif4JnRv0pKwvIM81VdrX9-cb_lFXfAWKuGezfU3qWnaPcldDJ3kR5nW4ls4lzE_CtSVl5Hf-gTG5NCUuY2l2_q9SB_0RD/w640-h594/Colusa%20Soda%20Wks%2020.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The announcement of
the beginnings of the Colusa Soda Works includes a description of the bottles
recently blown for the bottling of soda water.<i> </i>(<i>Weekly Colusa Sun</i>,
April 14, 1877) The description most
certainly fits the example pictured below. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4hzP6rmWDRIJNK8_zfG7gSnPbzExPG5jVyUMTPHnMtEBztUZKI7VWcBd1vsAzZiiKkdsyCvmCRIjtxVySdflkh3G89N9PfC5XafJEzoveFHejJthnimUfrLY9tpvcSNj4Sfjrtz6sp2NPzdMi5b-XmOkZqj08geBzFG_F3lKAUtFX0c-5fcWNvORHT9qV/s3788/IMG_8996.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3788" data-original-width="2022" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4hzP6rmWDRIJNK8_zfG7gSnPbzExPG5jVyUMTPHnMtEBztUZKI7VWcBd1vsAzZiiKkdsyCvmCRIjtxVySdflkh3G89N9PfC5XafJEzoveFHejJthnimUfrLY9tpvcSNj4Sfjrtz6sp2NPzdMi5b-XmOkZqj08geBzFG_F3lKAUtFX0c-5fcWNvORHT9qV/w342-h640/IMG_8996.JPG" width="342" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">From the newspaper
information provided it appears the company’s soda bottles were blown about
March or April of 1877. They were surely blown at the factory of the San Francisco &
Pacific Glass Works.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid8Ha9UCn8-1u-2RRunsPrayItw4HNMBd7c4Yve2xq8Z5M81Jc6Zvx2Dtu38edLASLcgodG0bm9sZzxJ4NQrEd2hEqpAXGBs9eSuaL4-6l5WlIINh-ovYPPJi5nShBCfYLqw3wj-i9NsLCILQZABAZxq7v65DqFbj8b8nLKhODvvNH95glts9nFBh8zBRy/s2634/Colusa%20Base.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2478" data-original-width="2634" height="602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid8Ha9UCn8-1u-2RRunsPrayItw4HNMBd7c4Yve2xq8Z5M81Jc6Zvx2Dtu38edLASLcgodG0bm9sZzxJ4NQrEd2hEqpAXGBs9eSuaL4-6l5WlIINh-ovYPPJi5nShBCfYLqw3wj-i9NsLCILQZABAZxq7v65DqFbj8b8nLKhODvvNH95glts9nFBh8zBRy/w640-h602/Colusa%20Base.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The base mold of the
Colusa Soda Works bottles was engraved with an unusual rayed design dividing
the circle into eight segments, not found on other California soda bottles of
this time period. Its meaning is unknown but probably just decorative.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">For reasons that are not clear the partnership of Poulson
& Brower came to an abrupt end about nine months later, at the end of December 1877. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiW_EzgH06FSqcc4IB8CiyO6lkoT0VnlOy3qCsJbza_nSi_xgGZR7xIISI1525vTg0zqGfJr2XHfjyAfo5NzQo-WbbV-BO5VShoPzvbJ9MkbOkxfvyZ3ZPVDZUt2uFh1rNMxbIjShjrAX6yn9UVx_q7giihyEhoko3Bp8furLhl2VQE2G-H6ny2N56x1a0/s2617/Colusa%20Soda%20Wks%2011.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1283" data-original-width="2617" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiW_EzgH06FSqcc4IB8CiyO6lkoT0VnlOy3qCsJbza_nSi_xgGZR7xIISI1525vTg0zqGfJr2XHfjyAfo5NzQo-WbbV-BO5VShoPzvbJ9MkbOkxfvyZ3ZPVDZUt2uFh1rNMxbIjShjrAX6yn9UVx_q7giihyEhoko3Bp8furLhl2VQE2G-H6ny2N56x1a0/w640-h314/Colusa%20Soda%20Wks%2011.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The dissolution
notice signaled the end of the partnership of Paulson and Brower at the
Colusa Soda Works. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Asa Brower, is noted to have been a soda water manufacturer in Willows, Glenn County, </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">California (</span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Weekly Colusa Sun</i><span style="font-size: x-large;">, December 13, 1879). He is also noted in </span><st1:placename style="font-size: x-large;" w:st="on">Colusa</st1:placename><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><st1:placetype style="font-size: x-large;" w:st="on">County in 1880. </st1:placetype><span style="font-size: x-large;">(<i>1880 </i></span><i><st1:country-region style="font-size: x-large;" w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region><span style="font-size: x-large;"> census for </span><st1:placename style="font-size: x-large;" w:st="on">Colusa</st1:placename><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><st1:placetype style="font-size: x-large;" w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>, Monroe Twp., line 43</i>) </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">and </span><st1:place style="font-size: x-large;" w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Woodland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">California.</st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-size: x-large;"> (<i>Yolo County, California, Great Register of Voters, 1882</i>).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Asa died December 24, 1885, in </span><st1:place style="font-size: x-large;" w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Mazatlan</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Mexico</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-size: x-large;">, of yellow fever. (</span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Sacramento Daily Union</i><span style="font-size: x-large;">, January 27, 1886) He owned 6,000 shares of the Descubridora Mill located, near Guanacevi, Durango, Mexico, and was probably there concerning his interest in the mine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">It is likely the embossed bottles continued to be used by the
soda works under the new partnership of Poulson &
Eller. No data was revealed about Eller. His name was often misspelled as
Ellis. Later advertisements confirm the new partner’s name was Eller.
Regardless, this second partnership was dissolved on August 21, 1878, with
Eller leaving. (<i>Weekly Colusa Sun</i>,
August 31, 1878) However: Eller retained an ownership interest in the soda
factory property for awhile. As a single proprietor, Paulson began bottling his
“Boston Champagne Cider” (<i>Weekly Colusa
Sun</i>, October 5, 1878) and sold Bethesda Water as well. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">On December 14, 1878, a lamp exploded and
started a fire that destroyed the works. It was mostly insured and Poulson had
it rebuilt. It is not clear if he was still bottling his own soda water at this
time or who actually owned the facility. George Shuggart was noted as a partner
at this time, but probably only had a financial interest in the operation and
was not a working partner. Shuggart was of African descent and upon his death
the local paper stated, . . . “</span><i style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Mr.
Shuggart, in the days before the Civil War was a slave in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Missouri</st1:state></st1:place>. In 1869, he was in <st1:state w:st="on">Illinois</st1:state> when he received a message from his former
master, asking him to return to <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Missouri</st1:place></st1:state>. He did so and came to <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state> with the master. They came to Colusa County and here it was
that Shuggart stayed. Since his arrival
here he has never been out of the state and has only been outside the county’s
limits six times. Mr. Shuggart has held the contract for sprinkling Colusa’s
streets for thirty-eight years. At one
time he owned a soda works here. About a year after he bought it, a lamp in the
house of the plant’s manager, Len Pohlson (sic), exploded and the soda works
burned to the ground</i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">. (</span><i style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Colusa Herald</i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">,
November 4, 1922)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8uzrIAZ5yHTPBpvbmAozGGz_oGGXpRCU8weIDlIekHXkShEyoLrnMFhHpyQR3va0KzkanqrDYQTos3xnYt0-GDYMqfre7ckROwFl_hU1B6p5IdKwNP2yIWhfjkUFRSHVnFA0XDmBq9fV0pbdP3MWVwgU-BfijptskCAQZvg12kxlBZkpKrJ6poXEXgj4s/s2083/Colusa%20Soda%20Wks%2027.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1417" data-original-width="2083" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8uzrIAZ5yHTPBpvbmAozGGz_oGGXpRCU8weIDlIekHXkShEyoLrnMFhHpyQR3va0KzkanqrDYQTos3xnYt0-GDYMqfre7ckROwFl_hU1B6p5IdKwNP2yIWhfjkUFRSHVnFA0XDmBq9fV0pbdP3MWVwgU-BfijptskCAQZvg12kxlBZkpKrJ6poXEXgj4s/w640-h436/Colusa%20Soda%20Wks%2027.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The drawing of the
Colusa Soda Works was published in <st1:city w:st="on">Colusa County</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>, Illustrations Descriptive of its
Scenery…etc., by Will S. Green, published by Elliott & Moore, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:place></st1:city>. 1880 It was apparently subscribed when
Poulson was operating without a partner, probably about 1879.</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";">By about 1884 Poulson
left Colusa, abandoning his wife, and moving to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Vancouver</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Washington</st1:state></st1:place>.
</span>In 1886 Poulson’s wife, Sarah Ann Poulson, brought suit against him in
the Sacramento Superior Court, on grounds of “willful desertion and neglect”
and requested the court to reinstate her maiden name of “Brummett”. Poulson
likely did not respond to this action and probably didn’t even see it in the
newspaper since he went to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Washington</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype></st1:place>. (<i>The Record-Union</i>, Sacramento,
California, June 8, 1886)</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: large;">Poulson remarried in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state></st1:place>,
to Annie May Betts in 1888, who was 29 years younger than he. Poulson died in
April 1888. His new widowed wife then married Samuel Foraker in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Vancouver</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Washington</st1:state></st1:place>,
on September 25, 1900. She was 47 years younger than her new husband. Samuel
died on March 17, 1915, in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Vancouver</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Washington</st1:state></st1:place>, aged 91 years. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidrGi_5WaLNJn5FxAGkbxegm65D8W2DVMEbIWyHF3qg8M3NqQ51ImqA-Gsp9eGZ-L386BZ8vfI3hnzcHccFRIULkuyqgwJBgrdB91fkO7DqHjohlzsx0GVuw9EgTpSzO9lWXPbUtXbpeRnhNUJPKqDWJlUj1w9jVNree5x9PONGAkWf8lL4P9DInF86nLO/s1301/Colusa%20Soda%20Wks%2028.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1301" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidrGi_5WaLNJn5FxAGkbxegm65D8W2DVMEbIWyHF3qg8M3NqQ51ImqA-Gsp9eGZ-L386BZ8vfI3hnzcHccFRIULkuyqgwJBgrdB91fkO7DqHjohlzsx0GVuw9EgTpSzO9lWXPbUtXbpeRnhNUJPKqDWJlUj1w9jVNree5x9PONGAkWf8lL4P9DInF86nLO/w492-h640/Colusa%20Soda%20Wks%2028.jpg" width="492" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: large;">The grave marker of Jonathan Leonard Poulson, spelled “Poulsen”
on his stone. The simple marker is the typical free stone given to veterans
which doesn’t even have his death date inscribed. It is located in the <st1:placename w:st="on">Old</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Vancouver</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">City</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Cemetery</st1:placetype>,
<st1:city w:st="on">Vancouver</st1:city>, <st1:placename w:st="on">Clark</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Washington</st1:state></st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA0xoTZ92bZzPVYlgyISM4uIV6cg7il8b9mltfQaVhGB54s-12HczkYS5t8R6kcJOIG8GfycQbYtGj6QVdx-JmZs7Kf-p8h1AAaJCBl10EEIysqLql7e3GfJ3iU2VfA9e7qHPmUnkQSCmS5gEVpe1Sc34iOZ30yTb4qti4K8MBPs2mZFpAndQbH6dkX0KM/s1900/Colusa%20Soda%20Wks%2004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1900" data-original-width="1862" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA0xoTZ92bZzPVYlgyISM4uIV6cg7il8b9mltfQaVhGB54s-12HczkYS5t8R6kcJOIG8GfycQbYtGj6QVdx-JmZs7Kf-p8h1AAaJCBl10EEIysqLql7e3GfJ3iU2VfA9e7qHPmUnkQSCmS5gEVpe1Sc34iOZ30yTb4qti4K8MBPs2mZFpAndQbH6dkX0KM/w628-h640/Colusa%20Soda%20Wks%2004.jpg" width="628" /></a></b></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: large;">A later graphic advertisement for the Colusa Soda Works
after it purchased the relatively new crown cap closure equipment invented by William
Painter in 1892. (<i>Colusa Daily Sun</i>, September 8, 1899)</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Thomas Henry Polley (aka Polly) purchased the Works about
1884.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Rankin Blackburn purchased the Colusa Soda works from Thomas
H. Polly in 1886.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">John Blackburn purchased the Works from his father, Rankin
Blackburn, in 1896. (Colusa Daily Sun, June 8, 1896)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Theodore Frederick Phillips purchased the Colusa Soda Works
from John Blackburn in October 1898. Phillips died on January 3, 1912, <span lang="EN" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";">and his widow finally sold it to the Woodland Ice and
Bottling Works in 1930<b>.</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: large;"> ****************</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></p>Eric McGuirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180656958989600662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-88061661991360414352023-06-13T15:11:00.001-07:002023-06-13T15:13:13.680-07:00<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiANeBzQpe5fO8z6gtg3XfvngDH3PtGwEjMVjrtXxbrugMq0gzSxq0RWZzBigQEwwdVV1pJZ1bV-BbdcxMqHrbOiL3LVooeKcZWe38DO_KI5gq9lt1mpHlNEUMvrF-7tdOibQTZ1aaRu79nRWS7l8gqm8CaBBe9312MRuGo2_EvsuaxcAqGqu-VHIf8/s2396/IMG_20230613_110316321~2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2396" data-original-width="2089" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiANeBzQpe5fO8z6gtg3XfvngDH3PtGwEjMVjrtXxbrugMq0gzSxq0RWZzBigQEwwdVV1pJZ1bV-BbdcxMqHrbOiL3LVooeKcZWe38DO_KI5gq9lt1mpHlNEUMvrF-7tdOibQTZ1aaRu79nRWS7l8gqm8CaBBe9312MRuGo2_EvsuaxcAqGqu-VHIf8/s320/IMG_20230613_110316321~2.jpg" width="279" /></a></div><br /></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Not exactly a whiskey but... I'll bet a lot of it was consumed on this auspicious occasion! </span></h2><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" id=":rb2:"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto"><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></h4><div class="x1e56ztr"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></div><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This
is an interesting piece which will appeal to many collectors of various
genres. It is a dance card for the 4th annual ball at Wadsworth Nevada,
in 1902. The card is dated Dec. 31, 1902, and is significant for one
reason, it was Wadsworth’s swan song.</span></span></span></h4><div class="x1e56ztr"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></div><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Wadsworth
Nevada was originally a wide spot on the trail, located on the Truckee
River. It was a stopping spot for weary settlers headed west. Later,
during the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Central
Pacific (CP) selected this spot as being ideal for their repair shops.
In 1868, they built a roundhouse, repair facilities, and a depot.
Hotels, stores and saloons soon followed. A residential section also
began to emerge.</span></span></span></h4><div class="x1e56ztr"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></div><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">All
went well and the place thrived. In 1882 the CP elected to begin
construction of new facilities (across the river) and by 1884, the
relocation had been completed. 1884 was also significant because the
original town site across the river burned to the ground. Things went
well and the new town site continued to flourish for nearly twenty more
years. </span></span></span></h4><div class="x1e56ztr"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></div><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Clubs,
lodges and fraternal organizations were popular and the Ladies Society
of the BOF (I know not what this stands for) was one of the active
groups. Lillian Flint was one of the members. On Dec. 31, 1902 Lillian
attended the 4th annual ball. </span></span></span></h4><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">There
are many things about this dance card that make it unique. Check out
the names of each dance! One of the other things that I noted is that
Lillian dutifully wrote down each partner with whom she danced. That was
until about half way through the evening. It would appear that either
her feet gave out, or she had one too many libations, as the entries
ceased with #7, a polka~</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4><div class="x1e56ztr"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></div><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
date of this waltz (Dec 31, 1902) was significant. In 1902, the CP (by
then the Southern Pacific - SP) had decided to realign their route and
move their facilities, lock, stock and barrel, to their new company
town, which we know today as Sparks. </span></span></span></h4><div class="x1e56ztr"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></div><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The date of Dec. 31, 1902 was indeed Wadsworth’s swan song as the town emptied out as quickly as it had originally been built.</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_aXNmcsmTnT8Et67K6pczofncToivIiT7DP6nDzLA1WWGFmyIZ-zlLj5OrZlWR_lGRedg1ac58lP2j72ayICjGggp3uNWk-EVE9D3iDpayjl-o-tPGhDT5oNPVycbk77XJYCpFw1pIOEuuIYCpjJEnxcy2orfpZif-nZXIXajOZIxQITyg3xrXGPx/s2396/IMG_20230613_110316321~2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>FOUTS SPRINGS</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mineral water has been a rich resource of <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state> for many years. Tucked into the
lee side of <st1:placename w:st="on">Snow</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Mountain</st1:placetype>,
and within <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Mendocino</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">National Forest</st1:placetype></st1:place> is a
mineral spring resort first established in 1874. Established by John Fleming
Fouts along with his wife Elizabeth (O’Neil) Fouts, they came to <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state> from <st1:state w:st="on">Iowa</st1:state> in
1854 and eventually established the town of <st1:city w:st="on">Meridian</st1:city>,
near <st1:city w:st="on">Yuba City</st1:city>,
in 1863. Their oldest child, Ionia Orland (Fouts) Moon , was born at Iowa Hill,
<st1:placename w:st="on">Placer</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype>,
in October 1854, while their wagon train was on its way westward to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Sutter</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
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activities, John Fouts also acted as a Justice of the Peace for <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Sutter County</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>
after his arrival there. (<i>Marysville
Daily Appeal</i>, Marysville, CA, 26 February 1862) </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Fouts founded and successfully operated a ferry across the
Sacramento River at Fouts Ferry, and he proceeded to lay out a town by the name
of <st1:city w:st="on">Meridian</st1:city> as
early as May 1863. He was also the postmaster and general merchant of the town. Three of their young children died in <st1:city w:st="on">Meridian</st1:city> in the months of
May and June 1866. Three more lived to be adults. He named the town, Meridian,
because it lies on the Mount Diablo base meridian, which was the prime meridian
for Northern California used in the Township and Range land survey system.</p>
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general merchandiser Fouts even sold patent medicines.</b><span style="text-align: left;"> (</span><b style="text-align: left;"><i>Weekly
Colusa Sun</i>, Colusa, California, August 15, 1868) </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b>Fouts became quite successful in his businesses at <st1:city w:st="on">Meridian</st1:city>, . . . “<st1:city w:st="on">Meridian</st1:city>
lies ten miles above the Mill (Grand Island Mills) and is a nucleus for a
village. John F. Fouts has built a
handsome brick store and dwelling house at this place. He also has a ferry that
is like a mint to him.” (<i>Weekly Colusa
Sun</i>, 4 September 1869) However, by 1872 Fouts filed a request for land
patents that likely coincided with the property he would soon inhabit in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Colusa</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
Perhaps he was facing increasing competition with his ferry crossing on the <st1:place w:st="on">Sacramento River</st1:place> as well the potential for the construction
of a new bridge, which was an inevitable scenario.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>The Fouts family soon moved West into the forested lands of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Colusa</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place>
where Fouts reportedly established a saw mill, and then moved nearby to a
small, well watered valley, on the South fork of Stony Creek, where he
established Fouts Springs in 1874.</p>
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article, which sounds much like an advertisement for the newly established
Fouts Springs, was published in the <i>Sacramento
Daily Union</i>, August 5, 1874. </b></p>
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the springs, Fouts never exploited the water beyond the resort itself, but he
did champion the water’s healing properties. (<i>Weekly Colusa Sun</i>, 22 April 1876) </b></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">By 1879 Fouts had leased the operation of the Springs to
George H. Ware, who took over management. Fouts maintained the stage line to the springs he established about a year earlier. By 1882 the
springs were leased to Alfred Sax Moon, who was the husband of his daughter,
Ionia Fouts.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9JF1lpp9jIcRJP3EjQjncefrDr4zXyYoSucIutN8zkMJlHbFyktS6aovBAxeaiOKDr5ngBKdV-ALII39_tS7WR4AOBlvIQqcA9x23anGaaImw0APdKlDGAoYWr3pssGr_5YgJggee9L4GECYGnt0JZv-m12mtwEll45qtDUZlDayXpXaHduEwfM8rPw/s6981/Fouts%20Springs%2019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4418" data-original-width="6981" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9JF1lpp9jIcRJP3EjQjncefrDr4zXyYoSucIutN8zkMJlHbFyktS6aovBAxeaiOKDr5ngBKdV-ALII39_tS7WR4AOBlvIQqcA9x23anGaaImw0APdKlDGAoYWr3pssGr_5YgJggee9L4GECYGnt0JZv-m12mtwEll45qtDUZlDayXpXaHduEwfM8rPw/w640-h406/Fouts%20Springs%2019.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><b>Fouts Springs Hotel, circa 1900, all decked out with flags for Independence Day.</b></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3QpIFZWbz2ChrHnrhGrbxCNtydzxn9UHlaI-nTdoBn1IQSZFE3qShCiZ_agGViwTOMv39GFL-Hqw5VozhIaRKjY9QfDr5gGLZsOUyb7y3moFa0p62D8q8H_GB_P23iwzGavhEbzw5zIoJJESe2FEXqRJSQpHfE5bSAxb6hf0q160-4vZQT_7Eot451Q/s2400/Fouts%20Springs%2028.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2400" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3QpIFZWbz2ChrHnrhGrbxCNtydzxn9UHlaI-nTdoBn1IQSZFE3qShCiZ_agGViwTOMv39GFL-Hqw5VozhIaRKjY9QfDr5gGLZsOUyb7y3moFa0p62D8q8H_GB_P23iwzGavhEbzw5zIoJJESe2FEXqRJSQpHfE5bSAxb6hf0q160-4vZQT_7Eot451Q/w640-h384/Fouts%20Springs%2028.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;">After two years, for
reasons that are not clear, Fouts again retained operation of the springs in
1884. (<i>Colusa Sun</i>, 14 June 1884) </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>While Fouts Springs water was known to have been shipped to
various retailers within the vicinity as early as 1897 there was no mention of
it being bottled during that time. Probably bulk shipments were made but only for a
short while.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRxHyi2VWOf2rgeIdS-j7GpwZYAW_f7Qh5r5I89qXssCcV0AXumunD_oKA6YCMMJaIgxTTKvfyn1d_8X23-hcRni8RFn-t7_yphZYphw4iD_Q0roxUxI4qClSAFpljten04kkxkGlaay_tvpqXu6Dy1lTPGxfnIfdPbT3Ged4hGzK7I-rVeJbllxGO0A/s3709/Fouts%20Springs%2018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3709" data-original-width="1506" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRxHyi2VWOf2rgeIdS-j7GpwZYAW_f7Qh5r5I89qXssCcV0AXumunD_oKA6YCMMJaIgxTTKvfyn1d_8X23-hcRni8RFn-t7_yphZYphw4iD_Q0roxUxI4qClSAFpljten04kkxkGlaay_tvpqXu6Dy1lTPGxfnIfdPbT3Ged4hGzK7I-rVeJbllxGO0A/w260-h640/Fouts%20Springs%2018.jpg" width="260" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;">A quart size FOUTS SPRINGS / NATURAL MINERAL / WATER bottle.
Tooled blob top, with a large “M” embossed on the base. The bottle is
considered rare.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Fouts Springs prospered throughout the first two decades of
the 20<sup>th</sup> century but the bottling of its waters appeared to have dried
up about 1913, with no mention of sales of the water after this date. The cost
of hauling the water from its source caused a cessation of the product within
the year of 1913. Not until ten years later another company was formed to put
the water back on the market. (<i>Colusa
Herald</i>, 19 Apr 1923) Besides the Red
Eye Spring, Fouts also maintained <st1:state w:st="on">Champagne</st1:state>,
White Sulphur, New Life, and Arsenic Springs. None of the latter were mentioned
as being bottled except Champagne Spring.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-6KSWS_H_f1sM2y4H56efVbpKpLHEAByN3DYKkeyCXYlt0rxMcbb9ZqK3n7Q_3vlgzTf7wW086LCuM79TpIK0hpCnaS3-2bOKJk8L5ILlB7Bm6e5PdOcQOtPXmrUZoQsVSGqPQ_hkC0YPfIMNj41BfW03Z7St1iLzyp1bD-Y8yQJny-WWg-XFoWHAtQ/s2621/Fouts%20Springs%2010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2621" data-original-width="1540" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-6KSWS_H_f1sM2y4H56efVbpKpLHEAByN3DYKkeyCXYlt0rxMcbb9ZqK3n7Q_3vlgzTf7wW086LCuM79TpIK0hpCnaS3-2bOKJk8L5ILlB7Bm6e5PdOcQOtPXmrUZoQsVSGqPQ_hkC0YPfIMNj41BfW03Z7St1iLzyp1bD-Y8yQJny-WWg-XFoWHAtQ/w376-h640/Fouts%20Springs%2010.jpg" width="376" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Fouts bottle pictured above likely contained water from the Red Eye Spring. (<i>Marysville Daily Appeal</i>, February 26, 1913)</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>John F. Fouts died August 30, 1913 in <st1:city w:st="on">Oakland</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>, and is buried in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Meridian</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Cemetery</st1:placetype></st1:place>, along with his wife and four
of his children.</p>Eric McGuirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180656958989600662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-76727570864554374852023-05-22T18:18:00.000-07:002023-05-22T18:18:28.450-07:00<p> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>C.C. DALL AND HIS COLUMBIA SODA WORKS</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">This sketch should really begin with William L. Dall, the
brother of C.C. Dall. Just prior to the discovery of gold in <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>,
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company was organized in <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state> in 1848. Three steamships were
fitted up to run on the <st1:placename w:st="on">Pacific</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Coast</st1:placetype> between <st1:country-region w:st="on">Panama</st1:country-region>
and <st1:city w:st="on">Astoria</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state>
– the steamers <st1:city w:st="on"><i>Panam</i>a</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on"><i>California</i></st1:state>
and <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><i>Oregon</i></st1:place></st1:state>. William L. Dall signed on to the <st1:state w:st="on"><i>Oregon</i></st1:state><i> </i>as second officer, and arrived in <st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place> about April 1,
1849. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Wm. L. Dall, was captaining ships on the West Coast at least
as early as 1851. He is first noted with the <st1:city w:st="on"><i>Carolina</i></st1:city> from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Panama</st1:country-region> to <st1:city w:st="on">San
Francisco</st1:city>. (<i>Daily
Alta California</i>, December 13, 1851) His first voyage on the SS <i>Columbia</i>, was in 1852 to <st1:place w:st="on">Oregon</st1:place>. (<i>Daily Alta California</i>, March 15, 1852)
The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><i>Columbia</i></st1:city></st1:place> appeared to be his ship of choice
throughout most of the decade of the 1850’s. Wm. L Dall brought his wife,
infant and servant to <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state> in October
1857, via Steamer <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><i>Sonora</i></st1:place></st1:state><i>.</i> (<i>Sacramento
Daily Union</i>, October 2, 1857). I could find no record but C. C. Dall
arrived in <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city> in the same year, and
possibly accompanied his sister-in-law to <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>, as he was the brother of W.L.
Dall.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1fQAvil7qvm45s8Nqng_j8TVMlw5T7aDUEiT30Rjhn5iCplJ0CUdvstdwX_PyiYah-9Er-F_paiGsy1LCg3zS3aKGspvBlpMOK1WVrPYgXO5_IcjKXlGWRXDnvXTbPQqma5UG2kbItqSu9kjHMGJioPX9TX7cYf_XFMmZV4aT7EAG2FUE9xuEF7fdxA/s1629/Dall,%20C.C.%2017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1629" data-original-width="1521" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1fQAvil7qvm45s8Nqng_j8TVMlw5T7aDUEiT30Rjhn5iCplJ0CUdvstdwX_PyiYah-9Er-F_paiGsy1LCg3zS3aKGspvBlpMOK1WVrPYgXO5_IcjKXlGWRXDnvXTbPQqma5UG2kbItqSu9kjHMGJioPX9TX7cYf_XFMmZV4aT7EAG2FUE9xuEF7fdxA/w598-h640/Dall,%20C.C.%2017.jpg" width="598" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>An advertisement documenting both Dall
brothers commanding their respective coastal route ships in 1857. (<i>Daily Alta California</i>, October 3, 1857) <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Christopher Columbus Dall was a demanding captain, more than
once being harshly judged for his actions. One example of several events he endured,
notes. . . “We learn from the Oregon Times of July 31<sup>st</sup>, that <st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city> was the scene of
considerable confusion, bordering upon riot, on the 26<sup>th</sup> Ult. It
appears that Capt. C.C. Dall, of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><i>Columbia</i></st1:city></st1:place><i>,</i> was arrested on a complaint for
mal-treatment of one of the hands on board the steamer; and after being fined
to the amount of $50 by the Recorder, made a narrow escape of passing through
the hands of Judge ‘Lynch’. – On coming out of the Recorder’s office, after the
trial (about dusk) Capt. D. found the ‘outside pressure’ pretty strong against
him – being saluted with hisses, howls, shouts, and a shower of <i>substantials</i>. Several shots were fired at him, but he
escaped to his ship uninjured. Several
of the citizens were more or less injured from the free circulation of rocks
and other missiles. One pistol ball pierced the coat of the Marshal. Several of
the alleged rioters were subsequently arrested, and bound over to court for
trial. (<i>Pioneer and Democrat</i>,
Olympia, Washington Territory, August 13, 1858)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">His brother, W.L. Dall, while charged with the steamer <i>Northerner</i>, struck a rock near <st1:place w:st="on">Cape Mendocino</st1:place> during a nasty storm. The ship was
eventually beached but 34 passengers lost their lives. By an ironic
coincidence, the steamer <st1:place w:st="on">Columbia</st1:place>,
under the charge of C.C. Dall, was en route not far behind the <i>Northerner</i>, which rendered considerable
assistance to the tragedy that occurred. (<i>The
Weekly Chicago Times</i>, Feb 16, 1860, pg 2).
Among those who were lost was Daniel Webster Barry, the messenger for
Wells, Fargo & Company, and brother of Theodore Barry of the firm of Barry
& Patten.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">It was reported that Capt. W.L. Dall had made over 200 voyages
over the previous decade with no problems. (<i>The
Empire</i>, Sydney, Australia, April 3, 1860, pg 3) Wrecking the <i>Northerner</i> must have shaken W.L. Dall considerably. Captain W.L. Dall made a couple more runs on
the coastal route, but retired from his captaincy in May 1860. He then became a
member of the Ophir Mining Company, acting as General Superintendent, and moved
to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Virginia City</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Nevada</st1:state></st1:place> Territory. (<i>Sacramento Daily Union</i>, May 4, 1860) W.L. Dall died May 22, 1866, at his home town
of <st1:city w:st="on">Rye</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">New
York</st1:state>. “Captain Dall had been afflicted for the last
few years with an obstinate and painful disease which baffled all medical
skill, and at last caused his death.” (<i>Daily
Alta California</i>, May 23, 1866.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Captain C.C. Dall continued his charge of commanding
steamships along the western coast of <st1:place w:st="on">North America</st1:place>.
Despite his long sojourns away from home, he and his wife, Martha Martin Dall, had eleven children, all born between 1856 and
1874.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">The life of a marine captain was a notoriously dangerous
venture. Just as the loss of a steamer occurred with Captain W. L. Dall, his
brother Captain C. C. Dall experienced a similar tragedy a decade later. While
charged with the SS <i>Continental, </i>Dall
had left <st1:city w:st="on">Mazatlan</st1:city> for <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city> on September 29, 1870. “The
steamer was heavily freighted with salt, silver ore, coal, fruits, etc., and
encountering a heavy gale, sprung a leak, which gained upon the pumps until the
fires in the furnaces were put out, and ultimately compelled the abandonment of
the ship by officers, crew and passengers, all of whom were ultimately saved –
with the exception of a party of seven, who, through feat, refused to take to
the boats. Capt. Dall is severely
censured by the <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city>
press for abandoning the poor fellows to their fate.” (<i>Petaluma Weekly Argus</i>, October 22, 1870)</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hardly missing a beat, Dall continued his <st1:city w:st="on">San
Francisco</st1:city> to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Mexico</st1:country-region>
schedule, this time on the Steamship <st1:state w:st="on"><i>Idaho</i></st1:state>, which was scheduled to leave <st1:place w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:place> on October 22<sup>, </sup>1870.
This was, however; the last run for the captain, and his name was no longer
associated with commanding ships in the newspapers. Two stellar reasons may be
given for Dall to exit the world of ship captain. First, he took considerable
heat from newspapers in accusations that he had abandoned his duties as ship
captain in not doing more to make everyone abandon the <i>Continental </i>even though they refused. Secondly, he had a near death
experience. With the perils of his job, and likely with strong urging from his
wife and family, it is quite possible that he was driven to pursue something
less life threatening. His obituary notes he. . . . “was compelled to give up
the sea on account of paralysis of the lower extremities.” (<i>San Francisco Examiner</i>, June 17, 1885)
This is questionable.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">By June of 1871 Thomas Harris and C.C. Dall were advertising
<st1:placename w:st="on">Crystal</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Springs</st1:placename>
as a resort destination for <st1:city w:st="on">San
Francisco</st1:city> residents. (<i>San Francisco Chronicle, </i>June 15, 1871, pg 4). By September 1871
Harris had exited the partnership leaving Dall as the sole lessee of the Crystal
Springs Hotel, located about ten miles south of <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigi0c-ESIb8wM2eGgTTatbp6UK3XJ89tIg4uTKH_EniGxfUAmwjh6Z1jNp3WaW_pVKG6juCQn_xNtwYiLJx0rQ2DI1qo_hFjHTKbkvCOsstY_c1w_9BWWlvRvqvjKjpf7JKtC2xaaxZkG60NylhEIGc8aaWaX7TuKoNJwtNXfZAs1Wn8b8VrrM4GHheA/s3938/Dall,%20C.C.%2013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1879" data-original-width="3938" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigi0c-ESIb8wM2eGgTTatbp6UK3XJ89tIg4uTKH_EniGxfUAmwjh6Z1jNp3WaW_pVKG6juCQn_xNtwYiLJx0rQ2DI1qo_hFjHTKbkvCOsstY_c1w_9BWWlvRvqvjKjpf7JKtC2xaaxZkG60NylhEIGc8aaWaX7TuKoNJwtNXfZAs1Wn8b8VrrM4GHheA/w640-h306/Dall,%20C.C.%2013.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Previous
advertisements included the name of Thomas Harris as a partner. This is the
first ad with Dall taking on the task of hosting the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Crystal</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Springs</st1:placename></st1:place>
resort by himself. (<i>Daily Alta California</i>, September 4, 1871)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Crystal Springs Hotel sat at the bottom of a verdant
elongated valley supplied with adequate water. The valley is actually a
geomorphic longitudinal “gouge’ in the landscape caused by the trace of the <st1:place w:st="on">San Andreas Fault</st1:place>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimDYrI8IuesAXMuWocpTastOefufG2xpquLK8_QlNXDuNcv3ZANZykMiLz0uEIrgPlK7h4CVrw00AEm279vCRTUe7sUKRKhPHv-oTlO0EV9DjV7AEt3eCUFB_o2FS_sSI5rdKu4Qhl9vq46HG4i5AoAe1izSsVlUN6NjUmS_pJvGe0432-EuKVOl0GBQ/s3333/Dall,%20C.C.%2024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2696" data-original-width="3333" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimDYrI8IuesAXMuWocpTastOefufG2xpquLK8_QlNXDuNcv3ZANZykMiLz0uEIrgPlK7h4CVrw00AEm279vCRTUe7sUKRKhPHv-oTlO0EV9DjV7AEt3eCUFB_o2FS_sSI5rdKu4Qhl9vq46HG4i5AoAe1izSsVlUN6NjUmS_pJvGe0432-EuKVOl0GBQ/w640-h518/Dall,%20C.C.%2024.jpg" width="640" /></a><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A sketch rendered by
the photographer/artist Edward Vischer is currently thought to be the only
known likeness of the Crystal Springs Hotel. (photo courtesy <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Redwood City</st1:city></st1:place> Pulse, <a href="https://www.rwcpulse.com/">https://www.rwcpulse.com/</a>)</span></b></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-size: large;">While it provided an ideal respite for city dwellers the site
soon became a promising location for speculators to construct a dam that could
supply water for the ever growing population of </span><st1:city style="font-size: large;" w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city><span style="font-size: large;">. Since Dall only had a lease on
the property he had no ability to stop progress. The property was sold and, all
the furniture, etc.,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">of the Crystal
Springs Hotel was auctioned on Sep 3, 1874. (</span><i style="font-size: large;">Times Gazette</i><span style="font-size: large;">, Redwood City, California, August 22, 1874) And
finally, “The Crystal Springs Hotel has been razed to the ground” (</span><i style="font-size: large;">Times Gazette</i><span style="font-size: large;">, Redwood City, California,
February 6, 1875)</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">The loss of the Crystal Springs Hotel left Dall without a
job. Three of his sons had recently secured jobs at the San Francisco Mint
about this same time. It is not clear whether Dall first went to work at the
Mint in about 1877 or whether he organized his Columbia Soda Works first.
Regardless, both occurred nearly concurrently.
His son, C.C. Dall, jr., acted as bottler for the soda operation. C.C. Dall’s son, George Alfred Dall, was the
first Dall to work for the U.S. Mint. He is noted in the 1875 <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city> directory as a clerk with the
Melter and Refiner’s Department of the U.S. Mint. C.C. Dall went to work for
the same department as a floor sweeper. While this sounds like a menial
occupation for a sea captain and resort operator, the job did carry some value.
The process of refining precious metals for use as coinage created some minor
losses which ended up on the floor. Dall’s job was to recover the valuable
material by sweeping the floor.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOxDW7Gx3t34hdY9qPs9UIbb3zPechJxIu2WGibIctO7q7-b4LgIGw9G0TekGJMebCtBSjDBeOOXnyKGtB_55R11uZyUUICYBmUmkzoUuEbLb1PapOD3A91ninEi2N8WIRFcg09hDAV_4iZWPp2hhI9p_awVdOjuBb_UzagZKvMPoJoTtTVkVVrUkxRQ/s2149/Dall,%20C.C.%2047.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="2149" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOxDW7Gx3t34hdY9qPs9UIbb3zPechJxIu2WGibIctO7q7-b4LgIGw9G0TekGJMebCtBSjDBeOOXnyKGtB_55R11uZyUUICYBmUmkzoUuEbLb1PapOD3A91ninEi2N8WIRFcg09hDAV_4iZWPp2hhI9p_awVdOjuBb_UzagZKvMPoJoTtTVkVVrUkxRQ/w640-h244/Dall,%20C.C.%2047.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> (<i>San
Francisco Examiner</i>, October 22, 1878)</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Apparently, Dall couldn’t resist recovering some of the floor
sweepings for himself, for which he got caught. The Daily Alta reported. . . .
“The detectives have recovered some seventeen ounces of sweepings alleged to
have been stolen from the Mint by C.C. Dall.” (<i>Daily Alta California</i>, October 5, 1878)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ3L_p5orFxO-z-sSwBu1ouTUttLIpbt-iBH2PQtIQ6-b5-kzdhEnVK54-eSl6AW1Z1UowCvpmMyJSHQQtRa512mqzk7IN2jSjGEnuGIpVhaIDpvE3xsF-8rNwcbvie5F9DqasY9T0-mme5Xz1MmVeZbtNaiT0v5mJS9mCnWfdDLYGUPuVtnWERDrmJQ/s2061/Dall,%20C.C.%2046.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2061" data-original-width="1208" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ3L_p5orFxO-z-sSwBu1ouTUttLIpbt-iBH2PQtIQ6-b5-kzdhEnVK54-eSl6AW1Z1UowCvpmMyJSHQQtRa512mqzk7IN2jSjGEnuGIpVhaIDpvE3xsF-8rNwcbvie5F9DqasY9T0-mme5Xz1MmVeZbtNaiT0v5mJS9mCnWfdDLYGUPuVtnWERDrmJQ/w376-h640/Dall,%20C.C.%2046.jpg" width="376" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>One newspaper gave an account of Dall’s version of what
happened with the “sweeping” incident. (<i>Los</i>
<i>Angeles Herald</i>, October 5, 1878</b>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dall’s penalty for stealing some floor sweepings at the Mint
was not detailed in the newspapers. Whether he was charged with a penalty is
not known, however; the situation must have caused him considerable
embarrassment. C.C. Dall decided to move his soda water business across <st1:placename w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Bay</st1:placetype>
to <st1:city w:st="on">Oakland</st1:city>, where the Columbia Soda Works was
last listed in the 1880 <st1:city w:st="on">Oakland</st1:city>
directory. By 1881 Dall had moved back
to his old <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city>
residence at <st1:street w:st="on">733 Broadway Street</st1:street>,
and chose to define himself as a master mariner, but was long retired from that
profession. However; a brief three year business as a soda water bottler, with
his name embossed on the bottles, has clouded the impression of what C.C. Dall
actually did during his lifetime.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Captain Christopher Columbus Dall died in <st1:place w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:place> on June 14, 1885, aged 54 years</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXkeNW16uH3N09D2qKJja4Q8IBp7rGbRZBwO4dKAw5e1QB6VPegjvNVabbpMfosi-nosGUUNFgQsmUwQx2dqgHs8ivjTsqN101o506cmmx8fnUm5z8sONJkr2Q2PeICrrOwMHpec7uxowJItjsaeB5kbbB-EyRPSegsi4a-owYpsNj5lCUHJ3fi2mtfw/s3475/IMG_8717.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3475" data-original-width="1836" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXkeNW16uH3N09D2qKJja4Q8IBp7rGbRZBwO4dKAw5e1QB6VPegjvNVabbpMfosi-nosGUUNFgQsmUwQx2dqgHs8ivjTsqN101o506cmmx8fnUm5z8sONJkr2Q2PeICrrOwMHpec7uxowJItjsaeB5kbbB-EyRPSegsi4a-owYpsNj5lCUHJ3fi2mtfw/w338-h640/IMG_8717.JPG" width="338" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIkvS0wo25XZQ8vbOQip1lOlUCf8T0HSw_qnCb6BuRpLW1aqykgpmaaNduQ6incPKXX4Kfcn3mgNr0G-za2ZXK9goe6jGpgx5W3Ae9OLNFw8SEdpb4hjL_BkpAQKinNVlgvCi5a8_ewHtQVsy6It6AvNhtYbWH8xY7xPEQCxYN8G7q0ie_HhGJEuWG3w/s3636/IMG_8717a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3636" data-original-width="1740" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIkvS0wo25XZQ8vbOQip1lOlUCf8T0HSw_qnCb6BuRpLW1aqykgpmaaNduQ6incPKXX4Kfcn3mgNr0G-za2ZXK9goe6jGpgx5W3Ae9OLNFw8SEdpb4hjL_BkpAQKinNVlgvCi5a8_ewHtQVsy6It6AvNhtYbWH8xY7xPEQCxYN8G7q0ie_HhGJEuWG3w/w306-h640/IMG_8717a.jpg" width="306" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">A question remains why Dall decided to name his soda water
business the Columbia Soda Works. Yes, he had a connection with the U.S. Mint
since he and his sons worked there, as did he for a while, and a number of <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> coins had the impression of a seated
goddess, <st1:city w:st="on">Columbia</st1:city>.
We also, shouldn’t forget that one of the steamers he previously captained was
the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><i>Columbia</i></st1:place></st1:city>. He may have also had a special
connection with that ship, that both he and his brother had commanded. The idea
of an embossed seated <st1:city w:st="on">Liberty</st1:city>
on the reverse of his bottles could easily have been borrowed from the U.S.
Mint, as it was a common symbol on coins at the time he and his sons worked
there. It is doubtful we will ever have a clear picture of Dall’s thoughts on
this subject.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAW_r7TXaieeamsE7D7iXjjfLoXestjc9QnDQdN4JUmYSi4MBZNWvb9fGf5MRMCvwZ5kTq20JJw4t8TJYCJI2epXIAISWxxvp5YFosOSILF0jFUkExuYHVvHH63eSqSYSAU12QdVreml4LdcYAKZ0sfAS2OcQXy4AeChbHM7ih9IAFHGKy_u0QMHEDzQ/s1205/Dall,%20C.C.%2045.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1205" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAW_r7TXaieeamsE7D7iXjjfLoXestjc9QnDQdN4JUmYSi4MBZNWvb9fGf5MRMCvwZ5kTq20JJw4t8TJYCJI2epXIAISWxxvp5YFosOSILF0jFUkExuYHVvHH63eSqSYSAU12QdVreml4LdcYAKZ0sfAS2OcQXy4AeChbHM7ih9IAFHGKy_u0QMHEDzQ/s320/Dall,%20C.C.%2045.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Eric McGuirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180656958989600662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-43985057385199059922023-03-24T14:11:00.000-07:002023-03-24T14:11:26.006-07:00<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">DR. HERDAN AND HIS PACIFIC SELF
HELPER COMPANY</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Born in <st1:city w:st="on">Bucharest</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Romania</st1:country-region> about 1864, <st2:sn w:st="on">Moscu</st2:sn>
<st2:sn w:st="on">I.</st2:sn> Herdan came to the <st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place> sometime between
1884 and 1890. His early years in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> are a little sketchy. The 1890
voting register for <st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Illinois</st1:state>,
notes he had lived in <st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city> for one year but
lived in <st1:state w:st="on">Illinois</st1:state>
for four years. It states his naturalization occurred in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Kansa</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">City</st1:placetype></st1:place>,
in 1884. He claimed he had medical degrees from several schools, none of which
were verified. Dr. Herdan had dreams about making it big in the medical world
and tried several ideas. None seemed to have worked. The bottle he had produced
is tangible evidence of unfortunate circumstances that kept Dr. Herdan from
achieving success.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJHKzYTejfqLHiyu-ni8nY3BxynRFPlpE2sR-c7U6kf-bRHDUvy9we0gYZobwtbmIZlqmQ5DwGznYxFxRnGZriQPe4lGXWQgOjtnSqtyi8rLXbM6lTiteb5s7y4TJw-hXo3GZRXPbMdmUvHpiRnuNTBV-nyqqwFcwbBzo9OBkwEo6cN7z_zTiCxgmQAA/s1085/Pacific%20Self%20Help%2022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1085" data-original-width="546" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJHKzYTejfqLHiyu-ni8nY3BxynRFPlpE2sR-c7U6kf-bRHDUvy9we0gYZobwtbmIZlqmQ5DwGznYxFxRnGZriQPe4lGXWQgOjtnSqtyi8rLXbM6lTiteb5s7y4TJw-hXo3GZRXPbMdmUvHpiRnuNTBV-nyqqwFcwbBzo9OBkwEo6cN7z_zTiCxgmQAA/w322-h640/Pacific%20Self%20Help%2022.jpg" width="322" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Dr. Herdan’s first
advertisement was located in Atchison, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Kansas</st1:state></st1:place>.
It set the stage for his future advertising style where he generally worked
from his hotel ‘residence’. He often stated that he was in residence
permanently, which was usually not very long. Herdan also openly stated that he
preferred women and children patients. (<i>The Atchison Daily Champion</i>, Atchison, Kansas, July 12, 1890)</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">By December 1890 Herdan had moved from Atchison, west to Salt Lake City, and set up shop in the
St. James Hotel, advertising “Diseases of Women a Specialty” (<i>Deseret News</i>, Salt Lake City, Utah,
December 26, 1890)</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Suicide is generally considered an act of desperation to
avoid continued mental or physical pain. It was on January 10, 1891, in his
room at the <st2:sn w:st="on">St.</st2:sn> <st2:middlename w:st="on">James</st2:middlename>
<st2:sn w:st="on">Hotel</st2:sn> in <st1:place w:st="on">Salt
Lake City</st1:place>, that Herdan attempted to kill himself. He left <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Salt</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Lake</st1:placetype></st1:place>
the following Tuesday, knowing his act would have ruined his
reputation as a trusted physician. “<i>At
the depot, before the train pulled out, he amused the bystanders with a speech,
in which he paid his compliments to the city and its people and said that he
would never visit the place again</i>”
(<i>The Salt Lake Tribune</i>, (Salt
Lake City, Utah) January 15, 1891, Page 8) </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi10o7ht34IIxLcqy-rZmUYBf2CGln-17-ADzFKJL7_lt2k00rD9wM1_pur-wdRQ0ec4h16oC0EsuIy-ZlRDggaVWE2t2Xxn1OOaUmgugEkyKAgj9STQZ6z8YkjlKO3tDUXeX9gc_v1rnjq1WDwi1Sg09Vhoh2ifNDnH9FHeZ6YaO81kdt5vK30UtCk3Q/s5812/Pacific%20Self%20Help%2029.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5812" data-original-width="3600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi10o7ht34IIxLcqy-rZmUYBf2CGln-17-ADzFKJL7_lt2k00rD9wM1_pur-wdRQ0ec4h16oC0EsuIy-ZlRDggaVWE2t2Xxn1OOaUmgugEkyKAgj9STQZ6z8YkjlKO3tDUXeX9gc_v1rnjq1WDwi1Sg09Vhoh2ifNDnH9FHeZ6YaO81kdt5vK30UtCk3Q/w396-h640/Pacific%20Self%20Help%2029.jpg" width="396" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b> Cabinet card of Dr. Herdan
with his signature top hat, taken circa 1892.
Photo taken in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Austin</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Nevada</st1:state></st1:place>. Sunbeam Photo Gallery, L.
A. Weller, Operator. <i>(Picture courtesy Mildred Morris at Berman-Morris/Pressly/Williams/Mount
Family Tree at FindAGrave.com.</i>)</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">He may have gone back to <st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place> for a short while, as he had a
brother located there, as well as a woman that he wanted for his wife. By the
end of January, Herdan had located his residence and business in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Reno</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Nevada</st1:state></st1:place>,
living at and working from the Inverness Hotel. (<i>Nevada State Journal</i>, January 27, 1891) In March 1891 Herdan added <st1:city w:st="on">Carson
City</st1:city> to his consultation circuit, working out of the Arlington
Hotel, in <st1:city w:st="on">Carson</st1:city>,
on Mondays. (<i>The Daily Appeal</i>, Carson
City, Nevada, March 12, 1891)</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghnTwRvnbQky68B3iXCMgzDFjOWzMsA3cAblGo2NTU_V2VC3nlRZDCOky63STuvzBjRZLRKkpyANR1qqTmxaAB1rdocsTE3C35kTD1_nBC2X45TRtaYgO30p2yWoVgWSERsuIw-uPB1puJNDBjtC2UitLKUyRYEuvkhVzjR63pCfwbsmotlUqK2FJ9_A/s707/Pacific%20Self%20Help%2038.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="707" data-original-width="546" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghnTwRvnbQky68B3iXCMgzDFjOWzMsA3cAblGo2NTU_V2VC3nlRZDCOky63STuvzBjRZLRKkpyANR1qqTmxaAB1rdocsTE3C35kTD1_nBC2X45TRtaYgO30p2yWoVgWSERsuIw-uPB1puJNDBjtC2UitLKUyRYEuvkhVzjR63pCfwbsmotlUqK2FJ9_A/w494-h640/Pacific%20Self%20Help%2038.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Dr. Herdan began working the cities of <st1:city w:st="on">Reno</st1:city>,
<st1:city w:st="on">Carson</st1:city> and <st1:place w:st="on">Virginia City</st1:place>
with his main residency dictated by demand, and this changed a number of times.
This circuit, with which Herdan maintained he was not a traveling physician,
divided his time into what must have been a very difficult schedule. All the
while he advertised almost daily in the local newspapers, which would have been
a significant part of his budget. Occasionally, Herdan would even ply new
ground in the vicinity as noted by a one-day visit at the Union Hotel in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Verdi</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Nevada</st1:state></st1:place>.
(<i>Nevada State Journal</i>, July 22, 1891)</b> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The first mention of Herdan’s connection with his patent
medicine venture was in <st1:place w:st="on">Reno</st1:place>,
when the newspaper noted, “<i>Dr. Herdan has
applied for a patent on a medicine invented by himself called “Self Helper” for
private diseases, which he claims is the greatest medicine yet produced. He has refused $2,500 for it, but will form a
company and place it on sale in every drug store in the United States</i>” (<i>Nevada State Journal</i>, Reno, Nevada 14
Apr 1891, Tue, Page 2) It is not clear if he actively began production for his
“Ladies Star” at this time, but he probably did not. Newspaper advertisements
did not occur for another six months.</p><p class="MsoNormal">By December 1891 he claimed a new ‘permanent’
residence in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Winnemucca</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Nevada</st1:state></st1:place>. Aside from seeing patients from his
room at the Winnemucca Hotel, Herdan had
an additional idea for this city. In the following January, he proclaimed his
intention to open a sanitarium for drunkenness, based on the new gold-chloride
treatment recently practiced by Dr. Keeley of Dwight, Illinois. It was
appropriately named The Nevada Sanitarium for the Cure of Drunkenness. Little
is known of the establishment which was actually located in the Silver State
Hall. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib36hubNePdEiW56CqOQsNoWAafSXzwW0pkKobUQPQQnikTX9aGmqIuqyfOffhuvcANGA9V7Mp2ICJ73XCaWHX-6szIdZUyc5H-a4qhLS-j25CpTPyuubBcQZ8joNFhLw1eoDhXRX30uGN3mUxntUVvbl0lxc2s3Ro1JL8K7hbjUh1Zia5-VDJlrRybA/s1333/Pacific%20Self%20Help%2039.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="546" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib36hubNePdEiW56CqOQsNoWAafSXzwW0pkKobUQPQQnikTX9aGmqIuqyfOffhuvcANGA9V7Mp2ICJ73XCaWHX-6szIdZUyc5H-a4qhLS-j25CpTPyuubBcQZ8joNFhLw1eoDhXRX30uGN3mUxntUVvbl0lxc2s3Ro1JL8K7hbjUh1Zia5-VDJlrRybA/w262-h640/Pacific%20Self%20Help%2039.jpg" width="262" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Herdan was apparently
quite taken by the Keeley cure process and decided to use the concept for his
new sanitarium in Winnemucca. It was a novel idea and most <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Nevada</st1:state></st1:place> towns had no shortage of individuals
who imbibed in too much alcohol. Whether the residents wanted to quit alcohol
use is another issue. (<i>The Silver State</i>,
Winnemucca, Nevada, January 6, 1892, pg 3)<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibEEM2wRttsjl3-GsvVnLuzx6fN9VReKtJGfEVdtXXVBrWOdkon21qdQFfq_w_LOV9FaOTpE4wYoLrfDv9WvrvtEYGNGAZHTIRONTjrNEFr97ToL5laZODijuTpPlAWUZW4HzfR-kPFRKTvqoJ4lH79pyxz1TdsJtMQe3RiukHsDz-IW3IWr9HMZEhRA/s5492/Pacific%20Self%20Help%2019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5492" data-original-width="2275" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibEEM2wRttsjl3-GsvVnLuzx6fN9VReKtJGfEVdtXXVBrWOdkon21qdQFfq_w_LOV9FaOTpE4wYoLrfDv9WvrvtEYGNGAZHTIRONTjrNEFr97ToL5laZODijuTpPlAWUZW4HzfR-kPFRKTvqoJ4lH79pyxz1TdsJtMQe3RiukHsDz-IW3IWr9HMZEhRA/w266-h640/Pacific%20Self%20Help%2019.jpg" width="266" /></a><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></b></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>The sanitarium was a
failure, and owing back rent, Herdan left town on May 9, 1892, and headed south for <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Austin</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Nevada</st1:state></st1:place>. (Advertisement from <i>The Silver State</i>, Winnemucca, Nevada, March 17, 1892)</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">On November 19, 1892 The Self Helper Company was organized
in <st1:city w:st="on">Austin</st1:city> under the corporate laws of <st1:place w:st="on">Nevada</st1:place>. Along with
Herdan were two other directors, David S. Truman and Osmer B. Vincent. Truman
was a practicing lawyer and continued in that capacity. It is likely that he
obtained the corporate papers for the new Pacific Self-Helper Co. Truman worked
as a lawyer for the remainder of his career, mostly in <st1:place w:st="on">Nevada</st1:place>, until his mysterious disappearance
in 1910. He was never heard from or located after that date. (<i>The San Francisco Call</i>, February 3,
1910) </p><p class="MsoNormal">The primary objective of this new corporation was to, “<i>purchase of Dr. M. Herdan and his co-owners,
a certain patent for the right to manufacture exclusively those medicines made
by them and for which a patent has been applied for from the Hon. Commissioner
of Patents of the United States of America, by said Dr. M. Herdan, and which
said medicines are known as and called Dr. Herdan’s SELF HELPER and Dr.
Herdan’s LADIES STAR and also any trade marks he may obtain therefore</i>.” The capital stock of the corporation was
$500,000, with $342,500 being paid up at the company’s inception. The paid-up
amount appears quite large and is difficult to believe. This amount was
probably inflated or may not represent actual cash.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>The partners soon decided to move their laboratory and
bottling facilities to <st1:place w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:place>,
where supplies were more readably available. Herdan remained in <st1:place w:st="on">Austin</st1:place> where he continued
his practice as a physician. Osmer B.
Vincent became the agent in <st1:place w:st="on">San
Francisco</st1:place>. He was a telegrapher by trade and was
probably a great asset to this new company in relaying information about the
Pacific Self Helper Co. to various newspapers. Truman’s role was probably just
as an investor along with dealing with legal issues as they may arise.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Meanwhile, Herdan became frustrated with his inability to
successfully operate as a physician in <st1:city w:st="on">Austin</st1:city>.
He openly expressed his feelings in the local newspaper by stating . . . “the
inhabitants are very sociable, but don’t get sick often enough, which healthful
condition he attributes to the lack of bad whisky and gossip”. (<i>The Daily Appeal</i> (Carson City, Nevada)
December 10, 1892, p 3)</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHHGODdWrlPb8bWMtg2V_SCwQMgSOuk_bk87w1_0w9AeNZMb5L_Zo5e3VORCwCGXw1trQwSkVoN-ZCgeEL0h0OfjEzabqzLC_NYV2NrkE-KNunlCBiktmFEVOeMDDL7aV-irYexK06wQ0yhM72e06vFvHEcbwlB4Ew5peGFU67Rgm-r9LK-bGeE0zE1Q/s3660/Pacific%20Self%20Help%2030a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3660" data-original-width="1824" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHHGODdWrlPb8bWMtg2V_SCwQMgSOuk_bk87w1_0w9AeNZMb5L_Zo5e3VORCwCGXw1trQwSkVoN-ZCgeEL0h0OfjEzabqzLC_NYV2NrkE-KNunlCBiktmFEVOeMDDL7aV-irYexK06wQ0yhM72e06vFvHEcbwlB4Ew5peGFU67Rgm-r9LK-bGeE0zE1Q/w318-h640/Pacific%20Self%20Help%2030a.jpg" width="318" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Six inches in height,
the bottle is produced with clear glass and is well made. It could be the product
of any established glass works of the period. Embossed on the front panel is,
LADIES (Star of David) STAR. On the right panel is PACIFIC. On the left side
is, SELF HELPER CO. <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ7T7qa-Gv4KQRdC0h1_lzGMf1583JF_b6VaaHVCXiXDreIABEyfukqOLJ-ZQueh6qtZsPg3Xn72l3Ef92x4zCm1J98kIIbBHYzrEXgZUiULfQmbsO8mF5WBI9NKDQT0Xd45-mVtxipuADkxJQee4IFDtehV8KS-LF_Xf1o-DerF_nvevi8XNfIDv5AQ/s3703/Pacific%20Self%20Help%2030.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3703" data-original-width="1542" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ7T7qa-Gv4KQRdC0h1_lzGMf1583JF_b6VaaHVCXiXDreIABEyfukqOLJ-ZQueh6qtZsPg3Xn72l3Ef92x4zCm1J98kIIbBHYzrEXgZUiULfQmbsO8mF5WBI9NKDQT0Xd45-mVtxipuADkxJQee4IFDtehV8KS-LF_Xf1o-DerF_nvevi8XNfIDv5AQ/w266-h640/Pacific%20Self%20Help%2030.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b>The other side of the
bottle showing the embossing. The remaining large bottle face is devoid of
lettering, probably reserved for a label.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_z1yTId7zlK4xgangDBjuLLF9speXi8mPtK1wBli72r6Zu2VJsQDzj8vHGAgHj78uhMr8HDNf_okpHiVRJk-DXsdNtgN-JRnpraabjNfcVc4GzFUuv-TFOsQOgLi9UD_thwF4ejzSzBPEFFZsZkWCUfnmyFkb9FTs4DoxHghlT3TG3sEpVthDEeYREg/s1026/Pacific%20Self%20Help%2027.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="546" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_z1yTId7zlK4xgangDBjuLLF9speXi8mPtK1wBli72r6Zu2VJsQDzj8vHGAgHj78uhMr8HDNf_okpHiVRJk-DXsdNtgN-JRnpraabjNfcVc4GzFUuv-TFOsQOgLi9UD_thwF4ejzSzBPEFFZsZkWCUfnmyFkb9FTs4DoxHghlT3TG3sEpVthDEeYREg/w340-h640/Pacific%20Self%20Help%2027.jpg" width="340" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The advertisement for Ladies Star was printed throughout the West during 1892 and 1893 (<i>The Central Nevadan</i>, (Battle Mountain, Nevada) December 8, 1892, Page 2)</b></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Herdan left <st1:place w:st="on">Austin</st1:place>
in January 1893, but the day prior to leaving he sold a block of his shares in
the Self Helper Company, and that night he lost $220 at faro. (<i>The Silver State</i>, (Winnemucca, Nevada),
January 31, 1893, p 3) Gambling was one of his weaknesses. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Herdan finally convinced his love interest, Mollie Abraham,
to marry him. They tied the not in <st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place>
on February 20, 1893. After returning to Austin their relationship became
strained and Mollie decided to leave him and she went back to <st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>
– and Herdan stayed in <st1:place w:st="on">Austin</st1:place>.
<i>“ The Reveille says: Dr. Herdan has
returned to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Austin</st1:city></st1:place>.
He had partially raised money enough to take him back to <st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city> but blew it in a game of stud poker Saturday night, and from present
indications, he will spend the summer in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Austin</st1:city></st1:place>. His sleek plug (slang for top hat) sits at
the same angle, however, say 45 degrees, as formerly, and his shirt front is as
immaculate as ever. He still persists in
trying to run a lot of business in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Austin</st1:city></st1:place>,
including this office, but we take pleasure in announcing that he is “not in
it.”</i> (<i>The Silver State</i>,
Unionville, Nevada, April 14, 1893, p 3) This is a clear indication that Herdan
worked newspapers to the best of his ability.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Herdan left <st1:city w:st="on">Austin</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Nevada</st1:state>, on April 19, 1893, and it was thought he was
going to Lovelock, but he went to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Grand
Junction</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Colorado</st1:state></st1:place>
instead. After his arrival there, the local paper noted, <i>“Dr. M.I. Herdan, the new physician and surgeon, has removed to his
headquarters over Haskell’s drug store, The Dr. comes very highly recommended,
and came here to reside permanently. He
is a graduate of the <st1:placename w:st="on">Imperial</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Hospital</st1:placetype> of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Austria</st1:country-region>,
and post graduate of the <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Physicians</st1:placename> and Surgeons of <st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>,
and is, also an active member of the World’s Fair congress of physicians and
surgeons, which meets in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city></st1:place>
next month. The Dr. is a scholar and
collaborator of medical periodicals, and very often his pen in materia medica
and scientific points appears in the newspapers.”</i> (<i>Grand Junction News</i>, April 29, 1893) In his usual manner, likely motivated by poor
success, Herdan left <st1:place w:st="on">Grand Junction</st1:place>
on July 22, 1893. His next location was probably <st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place> for several months, however; the
record is silent. His next try at success was in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Richmond</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Indiana</st1:state></st1:place>,
where his sister-in-law was living. The local paper noted, <i>“ Dr. M.I. Herdan, a physician from <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>,
is in the city and will locate here. . . he is a graduate of a European college
and of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city></st1:place>
Medical college.”</i> (<i>The Richmond Item</i>,
Richmond, Indiana, November 4, 1893)</p><p class="MsoNormal">Herdan operated for about a month in <st1:place w:st="on">Richmond</st1:place>. By the end of December 1893, he
made his final act from which there was no return. Dr. Moscu I. Herdan took his
own life while staying at the Palmer House in Chicago.</p><p class="MsoNormal">The newspapers quickly picked up on the story of Herdan’s
suicide, with none more complete than the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Inter-Ocean</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Chicago</st1:placename></st1:place>:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>“MADE SURE OF DEATH –
Dr. Moses I. Herdan Found Dead in the Palmer House – HE WAS TIRED OF LIVING. –
Thought the World Unappreciative of His Talents.” <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>“The chambermaids have
tried to get into No. 443 several times today.
The door was always locked, with the key on the inside. No one answers to their knocks.”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>“This was the report
made by a Palmer House bellboy to Clerk Cunningham last evening.”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>“Mr. Cunningham
glanced at the rack before him and saw that “Moses I. Herdan, M.D., City” was
posted up as the occupant of room No. 443.
Mr. Cunningham went to the room, a bellboy was lifted up to the transom,
and said that there was a dead man lying on the bed. The boy clambered into the room through the
transom and opened the door. Dr. Evans,
the house physician, was called and led the way into the room.”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>“Dr. Herdan had been
dead some hours. He lay propped up on a
pillow, his shoes off and vest and collar unbuttoned. An empty glass and a syringe lay on the
dresser with a phial containing about ten grains of morphine.”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>“If the phial was
full,” said Dr. Evans, “he injected about fifty grains of morphine into his
body.”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>“Dr. Herdan arrived at
the hotel at 6 o’clock Thursday night.
He left his trunk check with Clerk Cunningham and said he expected his
wife to arrive in the morning. He never
left the room after taking possession.
He probably spent the night writing letters, for his bed had not been
occupied, except when he administered the injection. On the top of the dresser was a pile of
burned paper. On the table lay several
letters, an express company’s receipt, a meerschaum pipe, a bag of tobacco, six
cigars, and his gold watch.”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>“In a letter addressed
to the Coroner the suicide said:<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Deliver my body to the
A. O. U. W. brothers of this city. I
don’t want to be buried before three days. <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>The cause of my
suicide is I don’t think life worth living.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Inform my brother at
No. 354 May street; also my father-in-law, at No <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">1826 Bishop street</st1:address></st1:street>.”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>“I don’t think it is
necessary to hold a postmortem examination. Yours respectfully.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>
DR. HERDAN”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>“In a letter addressed
‘To my wife,” he said:<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>God bless you. As God is my witness I have loved you
truly. Please forgive me for this act. I
think you will be happy without me. I
hope you will forgive me for this wrong act.
So marry again and be happy. I
know I love you and you alone. Your
husband, MOSES”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>“Another letter was
addressed to The INTER OCEAN. – Will you be kind and wire through the Asoc
Press to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Austin</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Nev.</st1:state></st1:place>, to Mr. Louis A. Veller to my last
act. I took this mean. I know I was a
reader of your Paper many thousand miles from here.”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>“The cause of my act
is I have enough of earthly misery; I had good success always in my profession
but I heat (sic) to practice. A Doctor and a Dog is alike., people don’t
appreciate the value of a good Physician.
So I think to finish tonight I love my wife and poor woman, I leave her
in the biggest misery. O God have mercy
with her, and to think she is in a delicate position, but I can’t resist from
doing which makes me Dey (sic) twice I trust in God and leave her in his
care. Thanking you for your kindness in
executing my last wish.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i> Yours Respectfully, <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i> M. I.
Herdan, M.D.”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>“His last letter was
probably written to his brother, Abraham Herdan, for he says:<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>My head aches me and I
fee awful mean. Please don’t write hom
to our parents my last act. God bless little Molly. Your brother,<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>
Moses”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>“The body was removed
to the morgue at <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">No. 73 Fifth
avenue</st1:address></st1:street>, and in accordance with the wish of Dr.
Herdan, Louis A. Veller, of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Austin</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Nev.</st1:state></st1:place>, was notified of the
suicide.”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>“The brother of the
dead man, Abraham Herdan, who is a clerk in a retail clothing store and lives
at No. 354 May street, was overcome with grief when told what had occurred at
the Palmer House. He went at once to
Sigmund’s morgue and identified the body as that of his brother. As he did so tears streamed down his face, and
it was with difficulty that he could be made to leave the place of death.”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>“My brother’s name,”
he said, “was <st1:place w:st="on"><st2:sn w:st="on">Moskou</st2:sn> <st2:sn w:st="on">I.</st2:sn></st1:place> Herdan.
He was born in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Bucharest</st1:city></st1:place>,
Roumania, and was 27 years old. He
studied medicine in Roumania and came to this country four years ago and
engaged in the practice of his profession.
A year or so ago he came to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city></st1:place>,
where he met the daughter of Meyer Abraham, of <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">No. 1826 Bishop street</st1:address></st1:street>. They were married and went to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Austin</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Nevada</st1:state></st1:place>
to live. They never got on well
together. Although there was never
anything of a very serious nature between them.
A few weeks ago my brother returned from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Nevada</st1:state></st1:place>.
He had patented several medicines which promised to sell well, but he
was tricked out of the patents by some designing persons.”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>“He returned yesterday
from a visit to his sister-in-law, Mrs, Morris Rice, at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Richmond</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ind.</st1:state></st1:place>,
where he had gone with his wife. She was
not with him, and he said nothing about her.
Thursday afternoon he left the house, in good spirits seemingly. We told
him to be sure and return and he replied that he would certainly do so. When he did not come back we supposed he had
gone to visit his father-in-law, Meyer Abraham.. The only reason I can assign
for the act of my brother is that he had become despondent over the loss of his
patents and because he was out of funds.”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>“Herdan’s parents live
in Roumania, and are well to do, his father being a retired farmer. Another
brother lives in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state></st1:place>.
He has been notified. The inquest will
be held this morning.” (The Inter-Ocean, Chicago, Illinois, December 30, 1893)<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal">As the story of his death worked its way across the country
newspaper accounts became even more bazaar, with the most outlandish being
Herdan’s promotion of ingesting human fat to treat obesity. Many articles
include his odd behavior, including his verified proclivity for gambling and his
periodic use of drugs, which are probably true. Herdan did appear to have an
unusual personality, and struggled with proving his legitimacy as a licensed
doctor.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL09TQSHLXVFVeZ-KsjIgpilbrhhEys11ceD0t-SvkcEPwUHocrprTAXsgfq-hUrssq5kIlY6NcKy1qipf8PL7r-vPlHvmCIkLqKCrTbkQRGx8AJ4vVCDt7Ak90r0STAqv8QBJjsJaY3O63elozclIyXlY1gvN6G85maT2oxjCLYICBlyGISSXoWCHAQ/s5488/Pacific%20Self%20Help%2042.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5488" data-original-width="2275" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL09TQSHLXVFVeZ-KsjIgpilbrhhEys11ceD0t-SvkcEPwUHocrprTAXsgfq-hUrssq5kIlY6NcKy1qipf8PL7r-vPlHvmCIkLqKCrTbkQRGx8AJ4vVCDt7Ak90r0STAqv8QBJjsJaY3O63elozclIyXlY1gvN6G85maT2oxjCLYICBlyGISSXoWCHAQ/w266-h640/Pacific%20Self%20Help%2042.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: #FAFAFA; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The news of Herdan’s suicide made headlines
across the country, but perhaps the most sensible information about the man was
found in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Grand Junction</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Colorado</st1:state></st1:place>, paper – the last place
Herdan practiced medicine in the West. It paints a picture of a unique
individual who carried deep-seated troubles. This should be expected based on
his unusual actions over the previous several years</span><span style="background: #FAFAFA; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. (<i>The Daily Sentinel</i>, Grand Junction,
Colorado, December 30, 1893, p. 4)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Herdan is buried in <st1:placename w:st="on">Waldheim</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Cemetery</st1:placetype>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Forest Park</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Illinois</st1:state></st1:place>.
His wife, Mollie W. Abraham, was born abt 1872 in <st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place>. She died May 31, 1944, in <st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles County</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>, and is buried in the Home of Peace Memorial
Park, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">East Los Angeles</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>, near her mother and sister.</p><p class="MsoNormal">**********************************************************************************</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 24.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 24pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Post Script</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"> </span>After assembling a draft of the information noted above, I
went back over some of the roughly 35 news articles that I pulled from various
newspapers relating to Herdan. In doing so I stumbled across one that I had
saved which initially didn’t appear to have much importance. Like a number of
others it simply dealt with Herdan helping a sick or injured person, of which
there are many in newspapers. After compiling a brief story of Herdan’s
life, and reading the article appended below, I was gobstruck! Something about
it was eerily familiar with the life of Herdan. The article, in fact, was the
same story that unfolded in the life of Herdan himself, but was written some
six months prior to his suicide. The article, which was presented to the
newspaper by Herdan, tells of a man who attempted suicide, and it happened to
be for the same circumstances that induced Herdan to take his own life. This
cannot be a coincidence. Of course, in the article the man was saved by Herdan,
or else there would be a body to deal with, which would ruin his idea of
concocting it. The article was sort of a “dry run” of what was to come.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4oHjau2L_ir3h_7r9R4m5JWcubIAv5ygM1acOpicMMCZE2zMm-fjcohQ0JVIcOGrwHK9IyujF61xfM2EqH0gQdIMcUfe8Ls-Tndv3BqMzbkgk5T92phxex3AK7shxL-RfXUYurKT5jSuC5I412Lah-TqNRA_-GzB3AsN2EOriVapyI5_ESFwp0zeeTA/s546/Pacific%20Self%20Help%2043.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="546" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4oHjau2L_ir3h_7r9R4m5JWcubIAv5ygM1acOpicMMCZE2zMm-fjcohQ0JVIcOGrwHK9IyujF61xfM2EqH0gQdIMcUfe8Ls-Tndv3BqMzbkgk5T92phxex3AK7shxL-RfXUYurKT5jSuC5I412Lah-TqNRA_-GzB3AsN2EOriVapyI5_ESFwp0zeeTA/w640-h510/Pacific%20Self%20Help%2043.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>The strange news article that appeared some six months prior to Herdan's death, with fictional contents that were to become a reality for Dr. Herdan. (<i>Grand Junction News</i>, (<st1:city w:st="on">Grand Junction</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Colorado) June 24,</st1:state>1893, Page 5)</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Also of significance is that no patent was approved for
Herdan during his lifetime. If he did apply it was not approved. However; it is
more likely that he tricked his partners into believing he held a patent for
the medicine. Further, no trademark was found as well. His newspaper
advertisements, which included his trademark, would have still been valid, but
it just wasn’t secured by either the state of <st1:place w:st="on">Nevada</st1:place> or the federal government. My
assessment of Herdan is that he was operating on a healthy diet of delusion along
with a mix of quackery. He may have meant well but crossed the line of cultural
mores and ethical boundaries of society.</p><p class="MsoNormal">All advertisements for Ladies Star and the Pacific Self
Helper Co. came to an abrupt end with the death of Dr. Herdan.</p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Eric McGuirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180656958989600662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-54496470719676467632022-11-21T14:24:00.000-08:002022-11-21T14:24:17.287-08:00<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: x-large;"><st1:state w:st="on">CALIFORNIA</st1:state>
WALNUT SAUCE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">This interesting and rare sauce bottle has been very
difficult to document, with scant information about its proprietor. The best
available clue about its origin is embossed on the bottle. Along with the name
of the contents, CALIFORNIA WALNUT SAUCE, and the apparent name of the
proprietor, M. E. YOUNG & CO. This person is most likely Mary E. Young, the
husband of restaurateur, John Henry Young. He and Mary were married in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Knox County</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Illinois</st1:state></st1:place>,
on March 20, 1883, where John began his restaurant career. The couple and their
two children moved to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>, in 1910. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">“Mrs. Young’s Famous Walnut Sauce” was first advertised in
1916 (<i>Los Angeles Evening Express</i>,
April 4, 1916), and in August of that year, “M. E. Young & Co, Walnut Table
Sauce” was noted as one of the many new enterprises in <st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city> (<i>The Los Angeles Times</i>, August 13, 1916)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p> </o:p>After an unusual hiatus, it was advertised again in May 1919, along with significant changes that occurred that year.
Mrs Young was probably the registrant for the trademark of the walnut sauce
which was first unveiled in June of 1919. Further examination of trademark
records is necessary to confirm this</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8ufmUlYFcZWq01H74OdDGYhgl7FBgvCSDNEmha-fVHZP7eVx2X-HCioa0GP864mwfwiP8fHujAt3KavU90baF8okVw9NGc7JwacYBSgpXfW6F6mhXRukGvG9F7TdCASl1JHsJX3SJxi4G8Fj96Sy94vm0JOFmL2n2OLuelf-hKPYetbVcfrZaFzderg/s546/Walnut%20Sauce%2001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="546" height="584" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8ufmUlYFcZWq01H74OdDGYhgl7FBgvCSDNEmha-fVHZP7eVx2X-HCioa0GP864mwfwiP8fHujAt3KavU90baF8okVw9NGc7JwacYBSgpXfW6F6mhXRukGvG9F7TdCASl1JHsJX3SJxi4G8Fj96Sy94vm0JOFmL2n2OLuelf-hKPYetbVcfrZaFzderg/w640-h584/Walnut%20Sauce%2001.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>The first
advertisement including the trademarked logo for <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>
Walnut Sauce was located in the <i><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los
Angeles</st1:place></st1:city> Evening Express</i> on June 6, 1919. Mary E. Young
was the probable registrant. The significant change occurred when she died on
June 11, 1919, which apparently caused the subsequent sale of the product to
other parties.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Within a couple of months after Mary’s death, the walnut sauce
had been re-branded to “An-ge-lo California Walnut Sauce”. The new
advertisements note this change and also note the old and newer trademarks are
included on the new labels. The new proprietor was the California Walnut Sauce
Co., of <st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city>,
with no mention of M.E Young & Co. It is likely that the new owners of the
Walnut Sauce Co. had been swallowed up by large corporations. By October 1920
the Columbia Products Company was given permission to take over the assets and
business of the Walnut Sauce Co., which was owned by another large
conglomerate, the Stetson- Barret Company (<i>The
Recorder</i>, San Francisco, California, October 13, 1920). The brand appears
to have fallen out of favor by the decade's end.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdx7JlYZ96BHd8ynIKXrkstJPREVXdC3crm-jRWV3-UkFMCVqu-Mnmk0s424j-SZEI1f0zrInptZZN6uJbxjyi9n1c5BrB04hBpbEc6PCVbKYpIudgY7pUBGivlmq-ZCNg9mRqMsKT-V8LAOifn-l0tCn7CdKIJTB3btVvaBuaJzmkg0k6GWIZHw34xA/s3744/Walnut%20Sauce.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3744" data-original-width="2724" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdx7JlYZ96BHd8ynIKXrkstJPREVXdC3crm-jRWV3-UkFMCVqu-Mnmk0s424j-SZEI1f0zrInptZZN6uJbxjyi9n1c5BrB04hBpbEc6PCVbKYpIudgY7pUBGivlmq-ZCNg9mRqMsKT-V8LAOifn-l0tCn7CdKIJTB3btVvaBuaJzmkg0k6GWIZHw34xA/w466-h640/Walnut%20Sauce.jpg" width="466" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>The new advertisement
for “Angelo” California Walnut Sauce first appeared in this advertisement. (<i>Los Angeles Herald</i>, August 20, 1919) The
Worcestershire-type bottles remained the same and it is only assumed that the
older lettered bottles, as shown here, were no longer used.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8iOhk8PmftZi20KEwgON9z0FYx0O4iarvIOf8bLJjBvMNF0BTUaJzoVTYME1zzn7f9TQjUnE0M0dUANXc2hj0-t77IeTA19UCCk5JdVmavpVwHKjXQTmV9LpE24kbTj0uYJeZcxYJM28wxKOnJAGQUMFWZBLYR3nFtUDVfVxYT73xxgVUw0LCcdoIEg/s2514/IMG_8160a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2101" data-original-width="2514" height="534" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8iOhk8PmftZi20KEwgON9z0FYx0O4iarvIOf8bLJjBvMNF0BTUaJzoVTYME1zzn7f9TQjUnE0M0dUANXc2hj0-t77IeTA19UCCk5JdVmavpVwHKjXQTmV9LpE24kbTj0uYJeZcxYJM28wxKOnJAGQUMFWZBLYR3nFtUDVfVxYT73xxgVUw0LCcdoIEg/w640-h534/IMG_8160a.jpg" width="640" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>The 8 oz. light aqua
tooled-top bottles are also embossed on the heel, “I.P.G.CO”, the unmistakable
mark of the Illinois Pacific Glass Company, which operated from 1902 to 1930.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">It is assumed that the species of walnuts used in the California
Walnut Sauce was actually the English Walnut, (Juglans regia), which is
an ‘old world’ variety, typically grown on the native California Black Walnut
(Juglans hindsii) rootstock. This is noted primarily because the name of the
product alludes to the possibility that the <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state> species was used in an extract
form. To walnut connoisseurs, there is a slight difference in the taste of the
nut, but the native species is much more difficult to harvest and is almost
never grown as a commercial crop. If just the liquid extract is used, as in the
case of walnut sauce, it is possible that the native variety may have been used
for this product.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Mary E. Young is buried in <st1:placetype w:st="on">Forest</st1:placetype>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Lawn</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Memorial
Park</st1:placetype>, in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Glendale</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>, along with her
husband, John Henry Young who died on January 27, 1930. John operated his
None-Such Restaurant at <st1:street w:st="on">3402 South
Vermont Avenue</st1:street> in <st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city> from 1910 to at least 1921.</span> </p>Eric McGuirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180656958989600662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-79193615019545435162022-10-05T08:23:00.008-07:002022-10-26T12:42:01.702-07:00Doctor's Darrin<div dir="auto"><div class="x1swvt13 x1l90r2v x1pi30zi x1iorvi4" id="jsc_c_cf"><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b> <u>Drs. Darrin</u></b><br /></span></span></h2><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto"><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwXaCmeHzEoHWb7HJ-9MqCVldNM09OIlDyR_e9_pbfzU7XLAim1K43jOIEYhZnSpdk_knp8NTvL20z7UGXj6GVjiLnsxfutZCqUm7WY96bqAMmqA8u5Vfz69lpGZFBRXmjpoveRspOHgZjkoHz_DX4Qx9mgTTnQ4ol2wpURBtTAZw2g0nyNJ7FCrFL/s3000/Elec%20main.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="1972" height="593" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwXaCmeHzEoHWb7HJ-9MqCVldNM09OIlDyR_e9_pbfzU7XLAim1K43jOIEYhZnSpdk_knp8NTvL20z7UGXj6GVjiLnsxfutZCqUm7WY96bqAMmqA8u5Vfz69lpGZFBRXmjpoveRspOHgZjkoHz_DX4Qx9mgTTnQ4ol2wpURBtTAZw2g0nyNJ7FCrFL/w389-h593/Elec%20main.jpg" width="389" /></a></div><br /></span></span></h4><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Fun Stuff!</span></span></h4><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u"></span></h4><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Sometimes ya just gotta roll your eyes at the gimmicks that folks came up with to fleece an ignorant and unsuspecting public.</span></span></h4><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u"></span></h4><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Here's a fun, oddball, pair of quack items focusing on the "Electric Cure Craze" of the later 19th century.</span></span></h4><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Drs.
Darrin first appears in 1884, listing his / their address as 113
Stockton St. (between Geary and O'Farrel) in S.F., and specializing in
curing maladies with the power of Magnetism. </span></span></h4><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr5fseUZNQAo1_Zu_nRUERukbgLfRqRmeHlAKIltmsSlaBylryTRaCy7sg9jfscBJhWwkudOH1JupIFGGpWZDi2lGE_54L4Ei1Az_5qlFxRcUV_Ea5D7KE2UPAE396tx2_bbU9x9A5v7PLrInHQoRSREvmHpdeuqrsVyT2jN8hwxUahZB6Wcecgsc9/s3000/darrin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="3000" height="96" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr5fseUZNQAo1_Zu_nRUERukbgLfRqRmeHlAKIltmsSlaBylryTRaCy7sg9jfscBJhWwkudOH1JupIFGGpWZDi2lGE_54L4Ei1Az_5qlFxRcUV_Ea5D7KE2UPAE396tx2_bbU9x9A5v7PLrInHQoRSREvmHpdeuqrsVyT2jN8hwxUahZB6Wcecgsc9/w640-h96/darrin.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></span></h4><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Later, he / they became
itinerant "doctors" (showmen - snake oil peddlers) who appeared in
Oregon ca. turn of the century, setting up shop in local small town
hotels as he traveled from town to town, "curing" folks with the wonders
of Electricity. "Infomercials" promoting his cure appear in numerous
Oregon newspapers of the era.</span></span></h4><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
bottle is just under 6" tall x 2 7/16" wide. It has a small chip on
the front of the lip. There is no base mark. The reverse has an odd
design as pictured. The label has margin loss as seen. A prescription
is present on the lower part of the label but I'm unable to read it. However, I can make out just enough to hazard a guess that it was for "external use" as it states in part, "For Electric cure, apply...".<br /></span></span></h4><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h4><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiopEE-YGdU50MumttVEqhyf8c01A4tnRT9CM3fRZdXmSaGmSO7G_5x95CvkX1JxTGME0nKh5Dk6dkQ1Q7xWehGM13CjXqiax8UfXOV3YZrqsTdyTVA28U7FZhXdypXhxLj1_jx7sjPbqz1PozFtfxF8M-SqsyeUqPbSwgC2fcBePRiJq09klLvY1gO/s3000/Elec%203.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="1618" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiopEE-YGdU50MumttVEqhyf8c01A4tnRT9CM3fRZdXmSaGmSO7G_5x95CvkX1JxTGME0nKh5Dk6dkQ1Q7xWehGM13CjXqiax8UfXOV3YZrqsTdyTVA28U7FZhXdypXhxLj1_jx7sjPbqz1PozFtfxF8M-SqsyeUqPbSwgC2fcBePRiJq09klLvY1gO/w346-h640/Elec%203.jpg" width="346" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXiTs9QMLPCqqkdeqYCtuSoquP8hwwc5f1kyUKgozf_d18GOR7aU_j8Hqe6KXmWPym9dGTWoGxZgdVdNZOmY2rbJRYoZt9c2mJ-dcwYUM552p8LAbCDyK4NP70zrLcP3bDE1uP5i8DhqH9fHNPT_pbrmeLzARrbQYTqKgngivSfB80c5m5AUY7Cxtu/s2978/Elec%205.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2978" data-original-width="1333" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXiTs9QMLPCqqkdeqYCtuSoquP8hwwc5f1kyUKgozf_d18GOR7aU_j8Hqe6KXmWPym9dGTWoGxZgdVdNZOmY2rbJRYoZt9c2mJ-dcwYUM552p8LAbCDyK4NP70zrLcP3bDE1uP5i8DhqH9fHNPT_pbrmeLzARrbQYTqKgngivSfB80c5m5AUY7Cxtu/w286-h640/Elec%205.jpg" width="286" /></a></div><br /> </span></span></h4><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u"></span></h4><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
accompanying Electric "Flesh Brush" brush appears to be made of a
vulcanized hard rubber, similar to gutta percha. It measures 5 3/16" x 2
1/2" and retains approximately 99% + of the horse hair bristles.</span></span></h4><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7qPlbAvbRYl0Cv7rJgINAptOaAKrgmZMsyo6mK58BKugxpGRp2dtkC981wu4k5_M5xpKNqN-jglw2XD9E6ApHlWUupf_eQDYk-WXgfP12UhO3jga9124Nc7YsjYS8RKSywC9EJgp4zTCydnLSG7DGg2uoHQU-rlht_jg-wpiLY3LH8Dr2DIm4kvgR/s3000/Elec%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="1727" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7qPlbAvbRYl0Cv7rJgINAptOaAKrgmZMsyo6mK58BKugxpGRp2dtkC981wu4k5_M5xpKNqN-jglw2XD9E6ApHlWUupf_eQDYk-WXgfP12UhO3jga9124Nc7YsjYS8RKSywC9EJgp4zTCydnLSG7DGg2uoHQU-rlht_jg-wpiLY3LH8Dr2DIm4kvgR/w368-h640/Elec%202.jpg" width="368" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgySuaIQXD1s0FInZT7zqgAvItXcjgXiDuCNHiabjV9XcomLGthk0sboH_hrZDI9PLlvri3mqKrEoH6avMlGYZmJnnRW3pZoU8sOpv358brFKymiNh411SmeZnu393jGlqptHaDOfBNhwRCKRUUUg7lKkJInoIO2y2xxq6RsQ76L6-xYuB5uM5YBQpW/s3000/Elec%204.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1574" data-original-width="3000" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgySuaIQXD1s0FInZT7zqgAvItXcjgXiDuCNHiabjV9XcomLGthk0sboH_hrZDI9PLlvri3mqKrEoH6avMlGYZmJnnRW3pZoU8sOpv358brFKymiNh411SmeZnu393jGlqptHaDOfBNhwRCKRUUUg7lKkJInoIO2y2xxq6RsQ76L6-xYuB5uM5YBQpW/w400-h210/Elec%204.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP_KV-TXBXkYdDoamJb-VDn8J-6WKxXU6EioM3GiiPA68bSk3Bmd5EibnLA7MliSNg2iesXXW9BiiYczf-szLWYGlZ1uFqGeTcNOatCe7VMVhdrks7xOGXLa5yYVEWfGfSf-fM72N1qs5sSheWDn1BbGVrkCG5gAFEMTTH9YTfdU6FgyP2uNJPI2V7/s523/Flesh%20brush%20ad.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="370" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP_KV-TXBXkYdDoamJb-VDn8J-6WKxXU6EioM3GiiPA68bSk3Bmd5EibnLA7MliSNg2iesXXW9BiiYczf-szLWYGlZ1uFqGeTcNOatCe7VMVhdrks7xOGXLa5yYVEWfGfSf-fM72N1qs5sSheWDn1BbGVrkCG5gAFEMTTH9YTfdU6FgyP2uNJPI2V7/w283-h400/Flesh%20brush%20ad.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><br /> </span></span></h4><div class="x1e56ztr"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u"></span></div><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u"><span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></i></span></span></h4><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u"><span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Quick
PS; The brush was patented in the eighties. I guess it lent credence
to their fantastic claims if another "Dr. so and so's" name was
involved... Patent states that there are actually "iron rods" embedded
in the handle. </span></i></span></span></h4><h4 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3 x14vqqas"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u"><span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Darrins were quite the pair to draw to. Once they
wore out their welcome in SF, they migrated to Sac, then LA. After
(probably) getting tarred and feathered there, they flew the coop to
Washington Territory, and eventually ended up in Oregon, running their
scam from small town to small town. Last records I could find were just
post TOC.</span></i></span></span></h4></span></span></div></div><p> </p>Kentucky Gemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16201818884914482275noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-28911044119137168952022-09-18T14:45:00.036-07:002022-09-18T18:52:26.950-07:00<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> * <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">OREGON</st1:place></st1:state> TRADE MARKS*<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Just as in the State of <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>
to its south, <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state>
adopted a trademark law in the mid-1860s to help protect trade names used by
proprietors doing business within the boundaries of the State. It preceded the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region>
trademark law adopted in 1870 but which had a greater value of providing
protection throughout all the states. The documentation below was gathered from
the Oregon Secretary of State records about 1975. Since that date, <st1:place w:st="on">Oregon</st1:place> has posted some
of its historical trademark records online (<a href="https://secure.sos.state.or.us/prs/search.do">https://secure.sos.state.or.us/prs/search.do</a>).
However, the online records are random and based primarily on visual appeal of
the associated documents. The trademarks listed below were selected nearly
fifty years ago with the primary consideration of possibly being a bottled
product and the historical documentation of those bottles being a primary
criterion. This listing terminates in 1903 even though registered <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state> trademarks go
well beyond that date.</p><p class="MsoNormal">This trademark list is compiled by the assigned number which is also listed by date. Some of the registrants listed below were located in California but trademarked their products in Oregon as well as California in order to better protect their business from fraudulent competitors.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> ******* *******</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">004 Clarke, J.E, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“Web Foot Tonic” (no printed matter included) <span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">6 June
1866</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">005 <st1:city w:st="on">Murray</st1:city>, J.W.,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“Premium Lung & Liver Balsam” and “Improved Magic Oil” (no printed matter
included) 29 Jan
1867 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">007 Avery, Wm. C.,
<st1:city w:st="on">Salem</st1:city>, OR “Mrs. L.A. Stipp’s Thoracic Balsam” (top half
of label included) 24 Apr 1867</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">008 Gross, L., <st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>,
OR, “<st1:place w:st="on">Henley</st1:place>’s
Royal Balsam” (no printed matter included) 9
Dec 1867 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">010 Gross &
Co., <st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, OR “<st1:place w:st="on">Henley</st1:place>’s Wild Grape Root
Bitters"(label and
wrapper included) 7
Jun 1868 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">019 Loryea, A.M., East Portland, OR, “The
South Carolina Preventive”, “The South <span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">Carolina Ague Remedy”, “The Unkweed Remedy”, “The Oregon Rheumatic Cure”
(No labels submitted. Entry printed on letterhead marked East Portland<span> </span>Bank,
Jas B. Stephens – A.M. Loryea)</span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">7 Jun 1868</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">022 Arctic Root Co., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place> “Prepared Arctic Root for Making Bitters –A.R.Co.” (Stained box label included) 28 Aug 1871</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">023 Brown, G.W., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place> “Dr. G.W. Brown’s U.S. Oregon Chittum Bitters<span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> (includes label) 6 Sep 1871</span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">024 Rennicks, S.J., <st1:place w:st="on">Portland</st1:place>,
OR “Oahu Bitters” (includes a slightly stained label) 21 Oct 1871<span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">030 Cunningham & Co., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Salem</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>
“Conquerer” (with a drawing of a standing lion<span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> and a shield. No mention of what
this company makes) 28 Oct 1874</span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">031 Staender, Adam, <st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, OR “Adam
Staender’s Vegetable Hair Renewer”<span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">(includes a trimmed wrapper) 30 Mar 1875</span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">036 Weatherford & Co., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Salem</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>, “Wigandia
– Mountain Balm” (no printed<span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> matter included) </span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">1 Dec 1876</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">045 Pfunder & Co., Wm., <st1:place w:st="on">Portland</st1:place>, OR
“Oregon Blood Purifier” (label included) <span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">20 May 1876</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">??? Murray & Co., O.S., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>
“Dr. Crampton’s Web Foot Oil &<span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> “Dr. Crampton’s Centennial Bitters” (this
trademark was only located in </span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">Vol. 1, pg. 46 of the registration books and not
in the chronological </span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">trademark listings. The printed material is impressive
but in poor condition) 1 Sep 1876</span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">046 Pfunder & Co., Wm., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place> (picture of a baby) 20 May
1878</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">049 (Unknown
registrant) “Dr. Henley’s Oregon Kidney Tea” (included label appears to
have been removed) 18 Aug 1879 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> 0</o:p>54 Simmonds, G.,
S.F., CA., “Nabob Whiskey” (several labels included) 29
Dec 1879 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">057 Hodge-Davis & Co., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“Oregon Kidney Tea” (wrapper included <span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">and
label included) 18 Feb
1880</span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">060 Molson & Sons, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“Lager Bier” (label included) 22 Mar 1880<span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">061 Blumauer & Co., L., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“The Rose Pill” (stained partial label)<span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> 5
Apr 1880</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">??? Feurer, Louis, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“Gambrinus Beer” & “Weiner Export Beer”<span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> 12
May 1880</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">077 Wilmerding & Co., S.F., CA, “Peruvian
Bitters” (labels included) 10 Mar
1881</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">079 Hotaling & Co., S.F., CA, (for
whiskey, labels included) 28 Apr 1881</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">??? Post, E.S., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“American Eagle” (for soda water) 4 Jun 1881</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">088 Henley, Wm., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“Dr. Henley’s Dandelion Tonic” (labels included<span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> 15 Aug 1881</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">100 Post, E. A., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“Oregon Champagne Cider” (label included from Cottle, Post & Co.) 20 Dec 1881</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">110 Hankins, John, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“J. Hankin’s Catarrh Remedy” (advertising card included) 18 Apr 1882</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">111 Braunschwieger & Bumstead, S.F., CA,
(Hibernia Stomach Bitters (labels included) 21 Apr 1882</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">112 Wilhoit Springs Mineral Water Co., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“Wilhoit Springs Mineral <span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">Water” (label included)</span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">27 May 1882</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">??? Meline, Mrs. E, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“The Great Indian Cough & Lung Remedy”<span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> (label included) 2 Jan 1886</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">128 Shannon, Bloomer & Son, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">E. Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“Portland Champagne Cider” (label included) 16 Feb 1883 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">134 Henley, Wm., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“Celery, Beef & Iron”, (front and back labels) 12 May 1883</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">146 McLellan &
Druschel, <st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state>,
“Pioneer <st1:place w:st="on">Champagne</st1:place> Cider & Ginger Ale”,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> (label and
description of bottle embossing which includes an anchor) 15 Sep 1883 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">152 Northrup &
Sturgis, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>, (transfer of the company’s trademarks on company letterhead) 21 Dec 1883</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">173 Kissler, J.H.,
<st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state>, “<st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state> & <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>
Indian Kidney & Liver Tea” (label
included) 15 Dec 1884</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">179 C.B. & <st1:place w:st="on">I.</st1:place> Extract Co., S.F., CA, “Prune Laxative” (labels
included) 2 May 1885 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">182 <st1:state w:st="on">Berry</st1:state>, Thomas, <st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state>, “<st1:state w:st="on">Berry</st1:state>’s
Nourishing Stout” (label included) 2 Oct 1885</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">183 Hall, Luhrs
& Co., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Sacramento</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">CA</st1:state></st1:place>, “Snowflake Whiskey” (labels included) 6 Oct 1885</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">191 Griswold,
N.W., S.F., CA, “Celery Cough Wafers”. (label included) 7 Jan 1886</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">195 Irvin, D. B., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Corvallis</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“Pearl of Beauty”, for freckles, sunburn, etc. (label included) 7 Apr 1886</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">216 Jack, James
M., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>, (The letters “CCC” above the letter “M”,
all accompanying a bust of a man. To be
used in connection with proprietary<span> </span>medicine and <span> </span>particularly a Catarrh Cure) 24
Jan 1887 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">218 Moore, Case
& Co., <st1:city w:st="on">Corvallis</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state>,
“<st1:city w:st="on">Moore</st1:city>’s Hair
Invigorator” (top half of label Included) 12 Apr 1887 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">227 Wisdom, W. M.,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“Wisdom’s Robertine” (label & letterhead included) 14 Jan 1888 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">238 Venner, J.F., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“Oregon Electric Relief” (no printed matter included) 17 Sep 1888</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">270 Aphro Medicine
Co., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>, “Aphroditine” (label included) 8 Oct 1889</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">272 Smith, E.W., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
(Densodyne” (type of product is not mentioned and no printed matter included) 16 Oct 1888 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">282 Halleck, W.
C., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>, “Skookum Root Hair Grower”, (label
included) 14 Mar 1890 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">283 Aphro
Medicine Co., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>, “Faber’s Golden Female Pills”
(label included) 25 Mar 1890</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">??? Shasta Mineral Water Co., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Sacramento</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">CA</st1:state></st1:place>,
(labels for mineral water) 16
Oct 1890 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">??? Withercombe, Thomas, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Farmington</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“King of the Valley Liniment” (label included) 26 Jun 1890</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">303 Love & Watkins, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“Klink’s Ague Pills” (box label included) 19
Nov 1890 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">371 Scott &
Gilbert, S.F., CA, “Sassafras Sour” (label included) 8 Feb 1893</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>419 Loewe
Bros,, S.F., CA, “C.W Stuart’s Extra Kentucky Whiskey” (with O & K Monogram, including a label for “SHM Superior
Old Bourbon, Wilmerding & <st1:place w:st="on">Co.</st1:place>, and a label for “Kellog’s Old Bourbon Whiskey, Wilmerding & Co.) 4 Feb 1895 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">??? Blumauer,
Phil, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>, “Barker’s Boro Thymol,” Barker’s Cod
Liver Oil” “Barker’s Sarsaparilla”, “Barker’s Kola”,
and the word “Alpine” ?????? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">478 Coblentz
& Levy, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>, “North Star Old Kentucky Bourbon” (label included 24 Jul 1897 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">??? Coblentz
& Levy, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>, “Black Diamond Whiskey” (label included 24
Aug 1897 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">489 Star Medicine
Co. (S. Hogeboom, Mrs. M. Hogeboom & E. Weaver, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>), <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>“German Dandelion Bitters” (partially printed label) 4 Nov
1897</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">490 Star
Medicine Co., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>, “German Dandelion Bitters” (full label <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>included) 4 Nov 1897</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">491 Star Medicine
Co., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>, “Dr. Hogeboom’s German Dandelion
Bitters”,<span> </span>(appears to be a back label for the same product) 4 Nov 1897</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">496 Wyatt &
Labbe, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>, “Kuick Kough Kure” (stencil label
included) 26 Nov
1897</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">546 Blumauer-Frank
Drug Co., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>, “Hood’s Pepsin & Celery Bitters (label included) 27 Oct 1898 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 594 Viavi Co., The, S.F., CA, “Viavi – Way to
Health”, (in a black diamond) 28 Nov 1899 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">610 Heath, Mrs. S. Moore, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“Heath’s Magic Enamel Cream” (no label
included) 8 May 1900</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">620 Fargo Co., E.A., S.F., CA, “Honey Rye
Whiskey” (label included) 10 Jul
1900</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">680 Dolphine Chemical Co., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“Dolphine Dandruff Destroyer” (label included) 25 Mar 1902</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">688 Cottel Drug Co., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“Kitsap” (for Hair Tonic, Condition Powder, Cough Cure, Liniment and Corn Cure.
Labels included) 18
Apr 1902</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">707 Caufield, Dan, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Oregon City</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“The Woman’s Friend – A Monthly Regulator” (no label included) 9 Jul 1902<span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">764 Yaquis Medicine Co., S.F., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">CA</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">&</st1:state>
<st1:state w:st="on">Portland</st1:state>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“The Great Yaquis Cough Cure” (labels, wrapper, and circular included) 7 May 1903</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">765 Yaquis Medicine Co., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,
“Snake Oil Liniment” (circular & wrapper) 7
May 1903</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">766 Yaquis
Medicine Co., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>, “La-Cas-Ka” (for medicine. Label,
circular & wrapper included) 7
May 1903</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">779 Hermetic Fruit
Jar Co., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OR</st1:state></st1:place>,. (advertisement only) 21 Jul 1903</p>Eric McGuirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180656958989600662noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-38320224745707164272022-07-22T11:52:00.000-07:002022-07-22T11:52:37.977-07:00<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> CALIFORNIA MINERAL SPRINGS LABELS</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;">Sitting on the edge of two of the largest geological plates on our earth, California is dotted with a plethora of mineral springs often created by deep-seated geothermal activity. Whether true or not, it has been part of human culture to consider mineral water generally containing health-giving properties.</p><p style="text-align: left;">With all these water sources it was just a matter of time before entrepreneurs would market this resource for their economic gain. Some were successful and others were not, as marketing is a fickle game. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Shown below are several labels - mostly from the late nineteenth century - used on the bottles containing California mineral water. These examples are part of the vast collection of the State of California Trade Mark Archives.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGMn_-u7vftz_LsooFdcB42OadcKMaK4Chw_US9z_KxDz-9jviFrJvnV0ODFmN5bp0Z1Tm1bcLgUtR8l4OOfeVwXuLKishjd3gvpMsoCumUj4WRIJ8JI1x2BBkIRdNvCOvoFrCPl6NqfeKLpDD1E9hJpkbU4ddkmTqybFH8AY4FR0ThGAIgW24yLJ9ew/s850/Bartlett%20Springs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="850" height="528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGMn_-u7vftz_LsooFdcB42OadcKMaK4Chw_US9z_KxDz-9jviFrJvnV0ODFmN5bp0Z1Tm1bcLgUtR8l4OOfeVwXuLKishjd3gvpMsoCumUj4WRIJ8JI1x2BBkIRdNvCOvoFrCPl6NqfeKLpDD1E9hJpkbU4ddkmTqybFH8AY4FR0ThGAIgW24yLJ9ew/w640-h528/Bartlett%20Springs.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;">F. M. MODESTO – SODA WATER</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">An early view of I
Street in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Modesto</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>, with its notoriously poor street
conditions. The root of the name coming from the Spanish word for ‘modesty’, it
has certainly been all that. Developed as a new railroad town, in the late
1860’s, it shifted the commercial focus for the area from the waning mining
activities to agriculture. It is probably best known as the headquarters for
the E & J Gallo Winery, the largest family owned winery in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Another claim to fame is the childhood home of movie mogul, George Lucas, who
co-created and directed the movie, “American Graffiti” (1973), which was
loosely based on Lucas’ teenage years growing up in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Modesto</st1:place></st1:city> during the 1960’s<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Frederick Meinecke was born in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Hanover</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
about 1823. Like so many young men of the time he became drawn by the word of
great riches in the far off land that had recently been wrested from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Mexico</st1:country-region> and was known as <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state>. Arriving in San Francisco in
October 1849, he made his way to the ‘gold fields’, likely speaking no English
and thrust into a melting pot of humanity from all points of the world. It is
quite possible that he befriended another German, either on his arduous 150 day
sea voyage from <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hamburg</st1:place></st1:state>
or shortly thereafter. In 1851 Ernst Lodtmann formed a partnership with
Meinecke in a venture to bring a herd of cattle from the ‘States’ to <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state>.
Over-wintering in the <st1:placename w:st="on">Salt</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Lake</st1:placetype> area the partners returned to <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state> in 1852. They established a dairy
ranch on the <st1:placename w:st="on">Calaveras</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype> about four miles from <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Stockton</st1:place></st1:city>. Although the partnership split up
in 1857 it appears the two retained a good relationship and probably had continued
business ventures for a number of years thereafter. However, at about this time
Meinecke left <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state> and returned to his
homeland of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Hanover</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place>. It is probable he had a
specific purpose in mind for he returned to <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>
about late 1860 or 1861 along with his new bride, Sophia, also a native of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Meinecke continued his farming activities but moved to the north
bank of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Stanislaus</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place> further south. Here
he established a ferry across the river which attracted others who located
there. A small settlement soon arose which was known by the name of Meinecke. A
few years later Frederick Meinecke formed a partnership with Charles E. Taylor
and the ferry business became known as Meinecke & Taylor’s Ferry. They also
opened a grocery store at the same location. In 1867 <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Taylor</st1:place></st1:city> was appointed postmaster for the
little settlement of Meinecke.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">One of the very few
items found that document the settlement of Meinecke, which was named after
Frederick Meinecke. (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stockton Independent</i>,
January 4, 1867)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b>Meinecke was also involved in moving merchandise up and down
the Tuolumne and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">San Joaquin</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Rivers</st1:placetype></st1:place> in 1868 when he
and three others incorporated the Tuolumne City Steamboat Company, with capital
stock at $70,000. ( <i>Daily Evening Herald, </i><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Stockton</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>, December 4,1868) The success of this company has not been
determined.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>In 1869 Meinecke gave up his partnership with <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Taylor</st1:place></st1:city> and moved on to
other ventures, which primarily included the operation of his 800 acre ranch
property.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">This advertisement
documents the dissolution of the partnership between Meinicke and Taylor in
1869. (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stockton Independent</i>, March
27, 1869). The ferry crossing soon became known as simply “<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Taylor</st1:place></st1:city>’s Ferry”. The small settlement of
Meinecke soon disappeared as well.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">This portion of an
1881 map by Wallace W. Elliott & Co. locates the geographical position of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Taylor</st1:place></st1:city>’s crossing (see
red dot) which was the previous location of Meinecke’s Ferry.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>As noted above, Meinecke and Lodtmann maintained an amicable
business relationship over the years, which is highlighted by the Lodtmann
brothers later soda water activities. Earnest (Ernst) and Justus Lodtmann had
initially established their soda water factory at Knights Ferry about 1867,
along with their Miners’ Brewery. With that towns decline and with <st1:city w:st="on">Modesto</st1:city> emerging as a town of great promise the Lodtmann
brothers moved their soda water factory to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Modesto</st1:place></st1:city> by August 1868, but kept their
brewery at Knight’s Ferry.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>The planning stage of the proposed rail line through the
central valley of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>
essentially changed the human geography of the area. Along with the proposed
new town of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Modesto</st1:place></st1:city>
came a wholesale movement of towns and their people to this new hub of the rail
line. The nearby towns of Empire, Tuolumne and Paradise essentially moved,
including their buildings, to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Modesto</st1:place></st1:city>.
It even usurped the county seat of government, Knight’s Ferry, by 1871. By 1874
the Lodtmann brothers sold their brewery at Knights Ferry and sold their <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Modesto</st1:place></st1:city> soda factory to
Frederick Meinecke the same year.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Meinecke soda
bottles were undoubtedly blown in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San
Francisco</st1:place></st1:city>. They are marked F M / <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">MODESTO</st1:place></st1:city>, on one side. No other variants are
known.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Frederick and Sophia Meinecke had four children – all born
in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">San Joaquin</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place>:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Edward Meinecke, born about 1861, Died 15 Nov 1939, in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Modesto</st1:place></st1:city></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Katie Meinecke, born about 1863, Died 7 May 1949, in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Modesto</st1:place></st1:city></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Meta Meinecke, born about 1865, Died 20 Oct 1949, in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Modesto</st1:place></st1:city></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sophia Meinecke, born about 1871, Died 2 April 1940, in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Modesto</st1:place></st1:city></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Frederick Meinecke died near <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Modesto</st1:place></st1:city> on 19 February 1907. Meinecke’s wife,
Sophia, died February 12, 1925 in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Modesto</st1:place></st1:city>.
It is somewhat strange that their four children, noted above, never married and
had no issue. And, for the most part, the siblings lived together until their
deaths.</p>Eric McGuirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180656958989600662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-38473107505673170272022-04-29T11:43:00.001-07:002022-04-29T11:43:45.604-07:00<p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b> More on S.D. BALDWIN'S LINIMENT</b></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">As an addendum to the previous write-up on <st1:place w:st="on">Baldwin</st1:place>’s
Liniment, it is true that additional batches of the bottle were blown at a
later date. Neatly made tooled top versions were produced and, thanks to my
good friend, Frank Sternad, he sent me an advertisement from the 1878
Marysville Directory for the product. Oddly, it contains the same text as the
ad published ten years earlier. I am not sure what to make of that but it is
now well documented that <st1:place w:st="on">Baldwin</st1:place> was still selling
the liniment at that point in time and probably a few years later.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPBRw9PisLkX9McyoTHPOWxj-kgBHuGRIocsipnIrbgYclulDmG5geB5ZLSxgi5erpcXbW2Z72-zCtn9b2OgFta7yWk91M1GmlPhMT5GdOp9juhEZxvjI0QJUXxumf8xN7kDq0IGJKVpD40LTPKhdJp3mkaN_F04h7zw-s5AeUmZQyVxT2H_HRi3VM7Q/s2574/Baldwin,%20SD%2015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2574" data-original-width="1937" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPBRw9PisLkX9McyoTHPOWxj-kgBHuGRIocsipnIrbgYclulDmG5geB5ZLSxgi5erpcXbW2Z72-zCtn9b2OgFta7yWk91M1GmlPhMT5GdOp9juhEZxvjI0QJUXxumf8xN7kDq0IGJKVpD40LTPKhdJp3mkaN_F04h7zw-s5AeUmZQyVxT2H_HRi3VM7Q/w482-h640/Baldwin,%20SD%2015.jpg" width="482" /></a></div><br />This is a good lesson in how difficult it can be to research
19<sup>th</sup> century items and retrieve all the important information. The best
we can do is try, and eventually, we will assemble a reasonable history of many
of our collectible bottles.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-TYvbHjnsgms6OwvGQmTTONftbijTfiXnhP6ni4Q1EJCpB5rDDWXoEucnOftYKQfZFDpTJF52bHCKm4hfH9ArKde--57WDMwV6aXZALF3uyXOw65k1aAPrfNMO2rgnUncohPoAmOKXVoeVy2mjmEdp4sGLBvNUYFPOnnXdZiHYcTOjAJvGnqpP5h6rg/s2333/Baldwin,%20SD%2013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2333" data-original-width="1575" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-TYvbHjnsgms6OwvGQmTTONftbijTfiXnhP6ni4Q1EJCpB5rDDWXoEucnOftYKQfZFDpTJF52bHCKm4hfH9ArKde--57WDMwV6aXZALF3uyXOw65k1aAPrfNMO2rgnUncohPoAmOKXVoeVy2mjmEdp4sGLBvNUYFPOnnXdZiHYcTOjAJvGnqpP5h6rg/w432-h640/Baldwin,%20SD%2013.jpg" width="432" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">The later tooled top variant of S.D. Baldwin's Liniment</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b></b></span><p></p>Eric McGuirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180656958989600662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-1265429006275937452022-04-22T17:05:00.000-07:002022-04-22T17:05:16.630-07:00<p> <span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">S. D. BALDWIN'S LINIMENT</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stephen Dexter Baldwin was born about 1806 in <st1:city w:st="on">Windsor</st1:city>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Berkshire</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Massachusetts</st1:state></st1:place>, the youngest of
six children. Shortly after his birth, Stephen and his family moved to <st1:city w:st="on">Riga</st1:city>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Monroe
County</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state></st1:place>, where
his father was a farmer, and most of his family lived out their lives.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stephen married Lois Chamberlin about 1833 and they settled
in <st1:city w:st="on">Brockport</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Sweden</st1:country-region>
Township, <st1:city w:st="on">Monroe County</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">New
York</st1:state>, just north of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Riga</st1:place></st1:city>.
He was a farmer and fathered four children, all born between 1834 and 1848.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<h1 style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Stephen
is likely the same “S.D. Baldwin” who was scheduled in the 1850 <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> census for <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Tuolumne County</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>
– listed as a miner. Little is known of his life during this early gold rush
period. It appears his mining venture had some success for Baldwin went back
home and arrived in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:place></st1:city>,
along with his family, in 1855 on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SS
Cortes</i>. (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Daily Alta California</i>,
21 January 1855</span><span style="color: #212529; font-weight: normal;">) Exactly when he opened his jewelry store in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Marysville</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>,
is not known, but newspaper accounts show him in the business as early as 1858.</span></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="color: #212529; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Baldwin</span></st1:place><span style="color: #212529; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> suffered some setbacks in the beginning<b>. </b></span>His house burned
in Marysville on 3 November 1859 and by 1861 he was forced into bankruptcy. (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Daily National Democrat ,</i>Marysville,
Calif., 26 Apr 1861) With hard work and determination he eventually succeeded
in his business, but was always looking for additional economic possibilities.
He even landed a contract with the city of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Marysville</st1:city></st1:place> to maintain and wind the city
clock.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
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advertising. Signs of his success became obvious. (<i>Marysville Daily Appeal</i>, 10 June 1863)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">The ‘sideline’ business that has caught the attention of
bottle collectors is the manufacture of his liniment. Its earliest record is
noted when he received a copyright for “S.D.Baldwin’s Neuralgia Liniment”,
registered with the Northern District Court of California, on 17 December 1866.
He would have had his bottles blown for his liniment at about the same time.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGClZESgaRQ-YuFVFLxBdSskFrFpqbYudkqIYhLF3dK0OyDWpDB2OBGp3xYnYusOxs5KwxwNWgm9XWQOAkwTDWURhHFBjK_ZDu9Q3wDwj1j6RubxPxO8Tf6sSW01dmpKF25k4pBKwUwfJ1CNVZbwjRy_JjQ_92ltbvzry4HuLLrTuAtKrAv_jYUy9uxw/s3856/IMG_6579.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3856" data-original-width="2143" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGClZESgaRQ-YuFVFLxBdSskFrFpqbYudkqIYhLF3dK0OyDWpDB2OBGp3xYnYusOxs5KwxwNWgm9XWQOAkwTDWURhHFBjK_ZDu9Q3wDwj1j6RubxPxO8Tf6sSW01dmpKF25k4pBKwUwfJ1CNVZbwjRy_JjQ_92ltbvzry4HuLLrTuAtKrAv_jYUy9uxw/w356-h640/IMG_6579.jpg" width="356" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The bottles are about
6.25 inches in height with separately applied tops. One side is embossed S.D. <st1:place w:st="on">BALDWIN</st1:place>’S / LINIMENT, in two lines. The glass has the
unmistakable character of the product of one of the two functioning glass works
located in San Francisco</b>. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">This
example has some unusual strings of glass adhered to its surface, accidentally
made during the blowing process.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaRB9LKE8_OHzCEx5IH967Pvhk4Rw_X0SlASCF84lQ2M-GR4dtTu_6PvOraWpo5Tt2cj_KY62onsGNKOLQlZpPXbeYGZRQAFZHWsFy5y1IlmZMLuVN6rOx6sBnoGgoU-1ER3mI8AvsQe8Xd5GdFk3FHLkp-ZpcElgZRjOeKTfYa2Hm3lnAFo8JMP93bA/s3744/IMG_6580.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3744" data-original-width="2010" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaRB9LKE8_OHzCEx5IH967Pvhk4Rw_X0SlASCF84lQ2M-GR4dtTu_6PvOraWpo5Tt2cj_KY62onsGNKOLQlZpPXbeYGZRQAFZHWsFy5y1IlmZMLuVN6rOx6sBnoGgoU-1ER3mI8AvsQe8Xd5GdFk3FHLkp-ZpcElgZRjOeKTfYa2Hm3lnAFo8JMP93bA/w344-h640/IMG_6580.jpg" width="344" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The opposite side is
embossed, MARYSVILLE / CAL, which leaves no room for a bottle label. It is
currently not possible to determine exactly when the bottles were blown, or how
many batches were made. It is likely that they were first blown in late 1866 or
early 1867, and judging from the relatively short marketing period, there were
few if any further batches.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsabBh61YwDDTk9fuoasPxqs75fHWzn7u2EQF2rCqCTfxYgxlq3Gs5ONWn5iwIxORMxK3PZQ7Woqkg_Xq-RHq9KF4ftW7Z2ws_zkd8Fh7CGNDQ-3SZnpLChvy8DHO0WHGgqB_L63_hWS8k2-7OMVg75OL_2EnEpGLnsXTJCc9TXzC-kCqFqUjqLyD-fA/s520/Baldwin,%20SD%2002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="393" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsabBh61YwDDTk9fuoasPxqs75fHWzn7u2EQF2rCqCTfxYgxlq3Gs5ONWn5iwIxORMxK3PZQ7Woqkg_Xq-RHq9KF4ftW7Z2ws_zkd8Fh7CGNDQ-3SZnpLChvy8DHO0WHGgqB_L63_hWS8k2-7OMVg75OL_2EnEpGLnsXTJCc9TXzC-kCqFqUjqLyD-fA/w484-h640/Baldwin,%20SD%2002.jpg" width="484" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The only newspaper
advertisement of any significance is this one, which ran from February to
August 1868.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">No other advertisements for <st1:place w:st="on">Baldwin</st1:place>’s
liniment have been located, which is an indication that it didn’t do very well
in the market. Only one other reference was noted that he wholesaled some of
his product to R.H. McDonald & Co. in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San
Francisco</st1:place></st1:city>. (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Daily
Alta California</i>, 5 August 1867)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
profits from the sales of a product don’t cover the cost of advertising it is
not unusual for the proprietor to no longer support it. It is likely that <st1:place w:st="on">Baldwin</st1:place> ultimately only sold his liniment through his
jewelry store which would limit sales considerably. Just one, rather novel
mention of the liniment was noted after 1868, which is an indication of his
remaining inventory, and shown in the news article below.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This whimsical
article is the last mention of <st1:place w:st="on">Baldwin</st1:place>’s
Liniment that was located. If there is any truth in it the strength of the
concoction must have been powerful. (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Marysville
Daily Appeal</i>, 29 February 1872)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p><st1:place style="font-size: large;" w:st="on">Baldwin</st1:place><span style="font-size: large;"> seems to have
continued his quest for profitable ventures beyond his jewelry store, and he
felt assured that he discovered his ticket to wealth in the tules that were
abundant in the marshy lands around his home town. News articles laid praise to
his new discovery. </span><i style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“ Mr. B. has for some
considerable time had experiments going on here and in the East, and has
finally succeeded in establishing the fact that the native tule, which grows so
abundant, in almost endless tracts of cheap swamp lands in California, can be economically
manufactured into first-class papers</i><span style="font-size: large;">. (</span><i style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pacific
Rural Press</i><span style="font-size: large;">, 2 March 1872)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">For reasons that seemingly defy logic, he even went so far
as obtaining a U.S patent for the use of tules in the making of paper.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Baldwin’s new invention
simply consisted of the use of the common tule found throughout much of <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state> as a medium
for making paper.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-size: large;">His patent apparently died an unceremonious death as no
further documentation was located regarding paper making with tules in </span><st1:state style="font-size: large;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size: large;">, Actually, other
tule species had been used in making paper for centuries in other parts of the
world. It was almost as if he was duped into this belief by others who saw a
chance to obtain some of </span><st1:place style="font-size: large;" w:st="on">Baldwin</st1:place><span style="font-size: large;">’s funds
during his research and development process.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p><st1:place style="font-size: large;" w:st="on">Baldwin</st1:place><span style="font-size: large;"> continued with his
Marysville jewelry store until about 1880 when he retired from the business
which was then run for a few years by his son-in-law, Perry Corey.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p><st1:place style="font-size: large;" w:st="on">Baldwin</st1:place><span style="font-size: large;">’s obituary notes, …
“He was well known in this section of the State, and was greatly esteemed and
respected for his high character and his genial social qualities”. He was found
slumped over in his ‘easy chair’, spectacles on his nose, and newspaper at his
feet, on January 27, 1882. (</span><i style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Marysville
Daily Appeal</i><span style="font-size: large;">, 28 January 1882) </span><span style="font-size: large; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">He is
buried in the </span><st1:place style="font-size: large;" w:st="on">Baldwin</st1:place><span style="font-size: large;"> crypt in the Marysville
city cemetery.</span></p>
<h1 style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #212529; font-weight: normal;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><br /><p></p>Eric McGuirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180656958989600662noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-61367522199922993692022-03-18T17:07:00.002-07:002022-03-18T17:07:56.322-07:00<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHhjBiBevCoXf-1-cNtFSOWIYRAUWX6H8ymBR-ZeYjWyxePllvKyzPrHbhJrPDr58prlzfsnxLTTIGxjk7N_MM-KMkbrzZWAUrLLiIAt_Nv47omPYDjBdhzBtwjAL4s1UqyVg31emKE3HFMbksk7yEV4nE2wqrJ0zSdjySoktxa5-3x9csOuz1koKl_g=s1533" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1533" data-original-width="1161" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHhjBiBevCoXf-1-cNtFSOWIYRAUWX6H8ymBR-ZeYjWyxePllvKyzPrHbhJrPDr58prlzfsnxLTTIGxjk7N_MM-KMkbrzZWAUrLLiIAt_Nv47omPYDjBdhzBtwjAL4s1UqyVg31emKE3HFMbksk7yEV4nE2wqrJ0zSdjySoktxa5-3x9csOuz1koKl_g=w485-h640" width="485" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Eric McGuirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180656958989600662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-18700913172029853482021-12-14T13:36:00.000-08:002021-12-14T13:36:08.802-08:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">PACIFIC CONGRESS WATER</span></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">An interesting little tidbit came to light awhile back when
I was doing some research. Sometimes when I get a lot of “hits” when doing
newspaper research, I often don’t bother looking at those that appear to be way
out of the time period for a particular item. This happened when searching
for “Pacific Congress Springs”. The hotel was destroyed by fire in 1903 and the
associated bottling activity had already stopped by then. One hit showed up
that was dated 1911 and I didn’t bother to check it for a long time, but my
curiosity got the best of me.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It was totally not what I had expected but was so
interesting that I thought I would share it, as it really relates to the very
beginnings of the Pacific Congress bottles in an unusual way. The organizers of
the springs were the financier, Darius Ogden Mills and the lucky miner, turned
financier, Alvinza Hayward, in 1864. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Pacific Congress Springs Company was organized in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city></st1:place> in November 1865, with a
capital stock of $100,000, divided into two hundred shares. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As many people know, the State of <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state> initiated a trade mark system as
early as 1861 which allowed proprietors certain legal protection to help deter
imitators from stealing their profits. This was the case with the Pacific
Congress Springs when they decided to bottle and sell their water. Begun as
early as 1864, the springs soon became quite popular and fearing the
probability of unscrupulous competitors, by 1868 the company decided to trade
mark its name, as well as specifically protecting their bottles.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This handwritten document is a portion of the trade mark
registration for Pacific Congress water, registered with the State of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place> as Trade Mark
No. 113, on October 21, 1868. It clearly notes that an example of the bottle to
be trademarked was submitted along with the necessary paperwork. This was an
unusual precedent since most trademarks were submitted by picture or drawing
since an actual object could present obvious storage or filing issues for a
governmental agency. Nevertheless, an actual bottle was submitted to the care
of the California Secretary of State, which is even further documented by way
of the Sacramento Daily Union of October 22, 1868, which noted, . . . <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The trade-mark of the Pacific Congress
Springs Company, and likewise a bottle of the Congress water for which the
trademark is claimed, were filed in the office of the Secretary of State
yesterday.” </i>This statement makes it sound as if the bottle was even full of
spring water. Perhaps it was.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As time went by trade mark registrations continued into the files of the
State – in fact, thousands of files, for any number of different goods. The
older documents would eventually be stored in odd ‘out-of-the-way’ places at
the Capitol, to make room for more current or more relevant items. Employees
would retire, or find other jobs, and files would often become forgotten,
fragmented or even lost. This is an all too common issue that most of us can
relate to.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nearly fifty years passed when a new position was created at
the state capitol in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sacramento</st1:place></st1:city>.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The former editor of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Watsonville Pajaronian</i>, George Radcliff,
was given the job by the new governor. This position was titled ‘Superintendent
of the Capitol and Grounds’ for the capitol building. It was his job to create
a smoothly running ‘house’ within which our elected officials could operate. Apparently,
one of his duties was to deal with some of the neglected papers, etc. that had
accumulated in various storage rooms in the old building. I am sure he stumbled
upon any number of items for which he had to make a judgment call on what to do
with it. At least he would need to ask someone else their opinion as to what
should be done with some of the ‘stuff’. As is often the case, no one really
knows what should be done with some of the items, and usually had no interest
in it. It would often be relegated to the trash.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This was the case when Radcliff happened upon an old bottle
which was apparently part of a trade mark submission. Being an old newspaper
man, he saw a story in his find. Whether he wrote most of the copy is not known,
but the article played up the age of the bottle found among the rubble.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">The meaning of Adam’s Ale has been somewhat lost in time, but it refers to the only drink
available to the first man to inhabit the earth in the biblical text – water. (Sacramento
Bee, July 20, 1911 Sacramento, CA, Page: 5)</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgEPDly7dZ-VSf68YKsTMMUI_OtGdRDM9piPkvlq6zon1mtZ_spIx5obkS315K_Z9g9hi5oZ5KXwUksIo61OT6e12eN9w_ivUIzVrwqlqRUJZ8Nj1QB06UBr1ZrYwxt_4Zm7S_uOLLQhc1TFIE9PFB8J9re5BQ2tnmYcr6iWxH7rx-zoeJvYas6xf81qQ=s1778" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1778" data-original-width="996" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgEPDly7dZ-VSf68YKsTMMUI_OtGdRDM9piPkvlq6zon1mtZ_spIx5obkS315K_Z9g9hi5oZ5KXwUksIo61OT6e12eN9w_ivUIzVrwqlqRUJZ8Nj1QB06UBr1ZrYwxt_4Zm7S_uOLLQhc1TFIE9PFB8J9re5BQ2tnmYcr6iWxH7rx-zoeJvYas6xf81qQ=w358-h640" width="358" /></a> </div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is not clear if that old bottle of Pacific Congress Water
has survived to the present day, but I do wonder if one of the impressive deep
blue variants was given to the Secretary of State as the trade mark example. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A rendering of the Pacific Congress Springs in 1876, while
under the ownership of Lewis A. Sage.</p>Eric McGuirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180656958989600662noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-1704197872902595052021-11-08T11:31:00.006-08:002021-11-09T18:10:31.386-08:00MAC - a "cure" for Train Sickness and Sea Sickness~<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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heard of Smith Bros. of Fresno until I bought a huge collection from that area
several years ago. In it, was a bottle that I found intriguing. Embossed on the
obverse “M.A.C. / For Dyspepsia / And Constipation / Smith Bros. / Fresno Cal.
“and “For Sea Sickness” on one side panel with “Train Sickness” on the other.
I’m not a cure collector per se, but this just had too much going for it to
sell it.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Oddly
enough, I could locate a “Smith Bros.” doing business as a pharmacist /
druggist in Fresno around the turn of the century, but could only find one
Smith; a George H.. Was the brother a silent partner, or was this an attempt by
George to piggyback onto the Smith Brothers of cough drop fame of the same
era?...</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Smith Bros
first started appearing in advertisements dating to 1898. They were puffing their
miracle cure for dandruff. <span> </span>San Jose must
have been a hotbed for this disease because they advertised incessantly in the
Mercury News. Actually the ads were in the form of news articles, which I found
odd. This campaign continued into late 1899.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc97zkoZBOvB1-2kuTCimn6HACXSpCuGO7Hejn9t4jePmj2XUAf6-LjsfXq6NPAX4MVF-5zQdi4s9eDDKEMKhCgqkaTgh0rj7OCtTV_m6esVcOsFLqOh-Fp843GZaaRRykandjA6_VphI/s442/Smith+4-18-98.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="153" data-original-width="442" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc97zkoZBOvB1-2kuTCimn6HACXSpCuGO7Hejn9t4jePmj2XUAf6-LjsfXq6NPAX4MVF-5zQdi4s9eDDKEMKhCgqkaTgh0rj7OCtTV_m6esVcOsFLqOh-Fp843GZaaRRykandjA6_VphI/w441-h153/Smith+4-18-98.jpg" width="441" /></a></span></div><p></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">By 1901 they
were marketing a Catarrh Cure </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">and a </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Deafness Cure </span></span>as well; (if one reads between the lines, it appears that they were one in the same - just appealing to different maladies). Ads appeared in San
Jose for the deafness cure. They expanded their territory to Hanford, Eureka
and Santa Rosa, as well as San Jose, for the Catarrh Cure. The price? A buck a
bottle or six for a five spot. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy7fDcgUoLgZtmUWxwps8Kc1PyiTFgHtY-88P9JSPCvpYdjNC5Pz4tKO0uG3y7J-R7FnU7NM_WH0bzPQfqysmUQK8y2rFIzShTgY2PY_lfVkOCXG7oJM9sUpkQ-uZYEe67FKtFIVUiQyU/s598/Deafness+Cure.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="598" height="341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy7fDcgUoLgZtmUWxwps8Kc1PyiTFgHtY-88P9JSPCvpYdjNC5Pz4tKO0uG3y7J-R7FnU7NM_WH0bzPQfqysmUQK8y2rFIzShTgY2PY_lfVkOCXG7oJM9sUpkQ-uZYEe67FKtFIVUiQyU/w436-h341/Deafness+Cure.jpg" width="436" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxkvlbc87LWWDLN6zh5lXwY93DnZIn-IadGetlVscKyiguQmyLr9awNgnIKzp2ahlEGknHcRMxSJXrrueQrsBRVEmxHzibKUG7yl4eoPBf0nim5ihfRmiVr7hWWlKYwVrBQ-FmlDMZQII/s675/SB+Cat+Cure+7-13-1902.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="675" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxkvlbc87LWWDLN6zh5lXwY93DnZIn-IadGetlVscKyiguQmyLr9awNgnIKzp2ahlEGknHcRMxSJXrrueQrsBRVEmxHzibKUG7yl4eoPBf0nim5ihfRmiVr7hWWlKYwVrBQ-FmlDMZQII/w486-h265/SB+Cat+Cure+7-13-1902.jpg" width="486" /></a></span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVX5FgK5lsIVTRgsZFcg1fmDfBNlMeod7sbtjJniEqTr5lns9hGK9t3tWkUlatPrpiteg21X4AyzrNYSCERqTmcvjQ9LxYCUUbyod3wr_ZfQalTwZrboHpaXhsPmDAPU4PJS5Y73WdjaU/s346/dandruff+3+may+1902.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="346" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVX5FgK5lsIVTRgsZFcg1fmDfBNlMeod7sbtjJniEqTr5lns9hGK9t3tWkUlatPrpiteg21X4AyzrNYSCERqTmcvjQ9LxYCUUbyod3wr_ZfQalTwZrboHpaXhsPmDAPU4PJS5Y73WdjaU/w479-h319/dandruff+3+may+1902.jpg" width="479" /></a></span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">They must
have done well in Santa Rosa because ads started appearing in Healdsburg not
long after the initial foray into Santa Rosa. By mid 1902, they were offering a
free book describing the maladies of Catarrh and extolling the virtues of their
miracle cure. Madera was next in their ad parade starting in 1903. The ads for
all locations were carbon copies of one another. By 1903 the price had dropped
to four bits a bottle. They must have been making the profit margin up in
volume by then. But by late 1903 advertising had dwindled to a shadow of its
former self. The year 1904 saw promotion of the products slow down drastically from
the fever pitch of the previous two years and advertising is all but non-existent.
This despite their attempt to broaden the need for the cure by claiming that
catarrh infected the lungs plus, now, the stomach and bladder too (might as
well cover all the bases…) Ohh, and the price had risen back up to a buck a
bottle since it cured so much more than originally claimed.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: large;"></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">A single
advertisement in January of 1904 seems to signal the end for “Smith Bros.”, SB
Catarrh Cure, and their Dandruff Pomade. Try as I did, I was never able to find
a stitch of advertising for the train / sea sickness cure.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">And so, yet
another here today - gone tomorrow participant in the cesspool of turn of the
century quack medicines.</span></span></p>
<p> </p>Kentucky Gemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16201818884914482275noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-41860040207880583882021-09-14T14:51:00.000-07:002021-09-14T14:51:47.755-07:00<p> </p><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;">SCHMIDT & LOWELL - SARSAPARILLA AND IRON WATER</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These interesting bottles, that don’t offer up much of their
history by first sight, except for the embossed monogram, are more enhanced by the story
of their proprietors. The primary clue is the prominent S&L monogram boldly
embossed on the face. This represents the partnership of Frederick William
Schmidt and Rufus Cane Lowell. Of these two men, the life of Schmidt is,
perhaps, the most important relative to the bottle. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Born in <st1:state w:st="on">Kentucky</st1:state> about
1847, it is not known when he came to <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state>.
Having a relatively common name he is hard to trace, however, one person of interest stands out somewhat. He may have been the same Schmidt who was listed as
a gunner in the Stockton Light Artillery Company in 1864. He would have been
about 18 years old at the time. (<i>Sacramento
Daily Union</i>, September 22, 1864)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Schmidt arrived in <st1:city w:st="on">Virginia City</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Nevada</st1:state>, via the “<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Donner</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Lake</st1:placetype></st1:place>
route” in April 1868. (<i>The Evening News</i>,
Gold Hill, Nevada, April 27, 1868) By November 1868, he was the musical
director of Piper’s Opera House in <st1:place w:st="on">Virginia City</st1:place>,
(<i>The Evening News</i>, Gold Hill, Nevada,
November 16, 1868) and then became the leader of the orchestra. (<i>The Evening News</i>, Gold Hill, Nevada,
March 11, 1870) He held that position until the end of the year.(when Carl
Williams took his place) After a hiatus of a few years, Schmidt was back at the
Opera House and leading the orchestra again. (<i>Gold Hill Daily News</i>, Gold Hill, Nevada, February 16, 1874), until
November 1875 (<i>Lyon County Times</i>,
Silver City, Nevada, November 2, 1875)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Exactly when Schmidt left the mainland for <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hawaii</st1:place></st1:state> is not clear, but his sojourn was just long
enough for him to befriend the most significant figure in the development of
Hawaiian music as we know it today. Unequivocally heralded as the father of
Hawaiian music, Heinrich “Henri” Berger was selected by King Kamehameha V to
create and lead the Royal Orchestra in 1872, which became one of the most important
cultural features of Hawaiian society. Berger was so loved by the King and subsequent
Hawaiian rulers, that Berger led the famous band until his retirement in 1916.
Several years into creating the band the King gave Berger permission to return
to his former home in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Prussia</st1:place></st1:country-region>
for a much deserved vacation. Berger, his wife and two children left <st1:state w:st="on">Hawaii</st1:state> for his homeland at the end of July 1876, and
returned via the <i>Zealandia</i> from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city></st1:place>, on May 31,
1877. (<i>The Pacific Commercial Advertiser</i>,
Honolulu, HI, June 2, 1877).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Henri Berger was born August 4, 1844, in <st1:city w:st="on">Berlin</st1:city>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region>, and died October 14,
1929 in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Honolulu</st1:city></st1:place>.
He married first, Sarah Anna Booth, born August 2, 1850, in <st1:state w:st="on">Hawaii</st1:state>,
and died November 19, 1911, in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Hawaii</st1:state></st1:place>.
She married first, Christian Frederick Pfluger about 1865 and second, Henri
Berger, on January 26, 1874 in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">San
Francisco</st1:city></st1:place>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Berger’s vacation left the orchestra without a leader, and
considering the value of this musical treasure to the Hawaiian people, it would
be such a significant hiatus that Berger entrusted its temporary leadership to
Fred Schmidt during his absence.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Berger’s wife was Sarah Anna Booth. She was one of 11
children born to Joseph and Anna McGuire Booth. Joseph Booth was the owner of
considerable property consisting of the majority of <st1:placename w:st="on">Pauoa</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Valley</st1:placetype>, north of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Honolulu</st1:place></st1:city> and currently within its city limits.
Booth also owned the National Hotel in downtown <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Honolulu</st1:place></st1:city>. During Berger’s absence, Fred Schmidt
married Clara Herminia Booth, sister of Sarah Anna Berger (nee Booth) on May 1,
1877, in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Pauoa</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Valley</st1:placetype></st1:place>, thus Fred Schmidt and Henri
Berger became brothers-in-law<b>.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>After Berger’s return from <st1:state w:st="on">Berlin</st1:state>,
Fred Schmidt, relieved of his temporary duties of orchestra leader, continued with his
musical passion, giving several performances in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Honolulu</st1:city></st1:place>. (<i>Hawaiian Gazette</i>, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 9, 1876)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV_pr7q8_lPZ614iadOriq-IEMLr5Wx03jyqv4GANT25rnt9au-JCnEZhnEGHtl1uhUuGynJJwIEMgDf1m_692qAGT3IyZAPVcZIMl8GWFbtZlU1uCzD2ACL_mM5VlyLZyXUoBckEFJIiE/s2500/Schmidt%252C+FW+07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2500" data-original-width="1039" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV_pr7q8_lPZ614iadOriq-IEMLr5Wx03jyqv4GANT25rnt9au-JCnEZhnEGHtl1uhUuGynJJwIEMgDf1m_692qAGT3IyZAPVcZIMl8GWFbtZlU1uCzD2ACL_mM5VlyLZyXUoBckEFJIiE/w266-h640/Schmidt%252C+FW+07.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A show advertisement for performances by the Royal Hawaiian
Band when Schmidt was its leader, including some piano solos by him. (The Hawaiian Gazette, Honolulu,
Hawaii, June 20, 1876)</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Shortly after Henri Berger’s return to Hawaii Fred Schmidt
left <st1:state w:st="on">Hawaii</st1:state> with his new bride, Clara, on June
20, 1877, aboard the Steamer <st1:country-region w:st="on"><i>Australia</i></st1:country-region>, bound for <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city></st1:place>. (<i>The Hawaiian Gazette</i>, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 20, 1877) The couple
stayed in <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city> for a year and then
moved to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Stockton</st1:city></st1:place>
in 1879. Schmidt became a regular fixture in the musical events of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Stockton</st1:city></st1:place> area, including
leading the Sixth Infantry Militia Band.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>For reasons that are unclear, Schmidt seized upon an
opportunity to diversify his activities and joined in partnership with Rufus
Cane Lowell in the enterprise of bottling the special sarsaparilla drink called
SARSAPARILLA AND IRON WATER. Just as Schmidt seemed an unlikely candidate for
such a career change, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lowell</st1:place></st1:city>
also had no previous experience in such a venture. He was born September 21, 1851, in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Maine</st1:state></st1:place>,
the son of John Pierce Lowell and Aphia Milliken Lowell. By 1866 the <st1:city w:st="on">Lowell</st1:city> family was living in <st1:city w:st="on">Sacramento</st1:city>,
where the senior <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lowell</st1:place></st1:city>
was a dealer in hides, wool, tallow and skins.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Rufus Lowell excelled in school and developed a gift for
public speaking for which he was amply praised . . . “<i>Rufus Lowell gave a recitation which was warmly applauded. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Lowell</st1:city></st1:place>
is a fine elocutionist, and displayed a degree of cultivation in dramatic reading
that is seldom excelled in that theater.”</i> (<i>Sacramento Bee</i>, May 4, 1871)
He was in attendance at the <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">California</st1:placename> at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berkeley</st1:place></st1:city>, at least for 1869.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>In 1874 Rufus C.
Lowell married Nettie Simpson in a double ceremony that included his sister and
her new husband. (<i>Sacramento Daily Union</i>,
April 9, 1874)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>By 1875 his father relocated his business to <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city> and took up residence in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oakland</st1:place></st1:city>. Rufus and his brother, Henry, stayed
in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sacramento</st1:place></st1:city>. In
1875 Rufus Lowell was elected Auditor and Controller of Sacramento County. An
audit of the Auditor / Controller was taken in 1878 and it was found that <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Lowell</st1:city></st1:place> had defrauded
numerous accounts in his favor. The matter was given to the District Attorney
on felony charges. (<i>The Sacramento Bee</i>,
May 6, 1878) <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lowell</st1:place></st1:city> made good the money he stole from the
County and pled not guilty for his actions. (<i>The Sacramento Bee</i>, July 31, 1878). He was acquitted of the charges and he ran
again for another term but didn’t succeed. In fact, he had to claim bankrupt
status in the amount of $1500 the following year. (<i>Morning Union</i>, Grass Valley, CA, May 11, 1878)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rufus Lowell’s older brother, Henry Lowell, was an important
fixture in his father’s hide and wool business, and maintained his father’s sheep
ranch activities near <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sacramento</st1:place></st1:city>.
In the summer of 1876, Henry went missing and it was ultimately determined that
his financial activities caused him to leave town with about $25,000 that did
not belong to him. (<i>Sacramento Daily
Union</i>, June 6, 1876) This loss to his father’s wool business was critical
and having never recovered from his financial loss, his father was forced into
bankruptcy by 1879. (<i>Oakland Tribune</i>,
February 26, 1879)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Rufus Lowell subsequently moved to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Marysville</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>,
where he was involved with a new corporation called the Citizen’s Ice Company. For
more years than could be counted, ice had traditionally been harvested during
the winter and stored in locations that would keep it as long as possible for
use in warmer months. With the advent of ice making machines in the mid –
1850’s, reliance on natural ice became less important, and by 1880 a large
number of ice making machines were installed in American cities. The Citizen’s
Ice Company was constructed to create ‘artificial’ ice as it was called at that
time.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1_KL-JIfjDDgRysD5gquNV7RYpZci4g18pXYA4De38DXaDcWbHsDE6h4YpewX-bLb2TLOaLdFjGHbqIcoa7xkoPiD8dwEw2tBTdeqCsrmQq4qrQgwjod48cpXj3BuSYk85FrOJWnozKr/s1069/Lowell%252C+RC+01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1069" data-original-width="1005" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1_KL-JIfjDDgRysD5gquNV7RYpZci4g18pXYA4De38DXaDcWbHsDE6h4YpewX-bLb2TLOaLdFjGHbqIcoa7xkoPiD8dwEw2tBTdeqCsrmQq4qrQgwjod48cpXj3BuSYk85FrOJWnozKr/w602-h640/Lowell%252C+RC+01.jpg" width="602" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Rufus Lowell acted as
general manager for the Artificial Ice Company in Marysville, established in
1880. (<i>Marysville Daily Appeal</i>, May
6, 1880)</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b>Not unexpectedly the new ice company ran headlong into
competition from existing ice businesses in Marysville, with J. Tomb being the
oldest and most established. He tried a variety of tactics to get the new
upstart shut down, and it appears he was successful. For reasons unknown, Lowell
could not compete and the Citizen’s Ice Company faded away within the year.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgESRdyPQVoVIvwn3e_u8uXip90WCdX6nxADclh-rmyEX3cWg8b_2tYuuHP9a0t5em09sVcvF-E89O6XIK3retgKY_qubi3uF9GRUHzGn8r6YrQNhmLl3AnXhM0DOxKOwfYdsZXcv_CkL5C/s1686/Lowell%252C+RC+02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1686" data-original-width="731" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgESRdyPQVoVIvwn3e_u8uXip90WCdX6nxADclh-rmyEX3cWg8b_2tYuuHP9a0t5em09sVcvF-E89O6XIK3retgKY_qubi3uF9GRUHzGn8r6YrQNhmLl3AnXhM0DOxKOwfYdsZXcv_CkL5C/w277-h640/Lowell%252C+RC+02.jpg" width="277" /></a></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><b>This article
documents the considerable competition the Citizen’s Ice Company faced while
attempting to establish itself in Marysville. Tomb was apparently successful in
defeating the upstart Artificial Ice Company, (<i>Chico Weekly Enterprise</i>, June 8, 1880)</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lowell</st1:place></st1:city> proved to be elusive during the first
part of the decade of 1880 after the demise of his ice company. He was
scheduled in the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sacramento</st1:place></st1:city>
voting register of 1882 (no occupation listed) and then seems to vanish from the record for
several years.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt;">Finally, his next venture is a
significant element as it relates to the subject bottle even though very scant
documentation covers the subject. It was probably in late 1886 that Rufus
Lowell and Frederick W. Schmidt crossed paths. This unlikely duo created a
partnership in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Stockton</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>, which was primarily based on their Sarsaparilla and Iron Water. How this came about is
currently a mystery, and judging from the lives of these two individuals, the
story was likely out of the ordinary. The only commonality located was that Fred Schmidt became a director in the newly formed corporation called
the Stockton Ice Company in 1886. (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sacramento
Daily Union</i>, March 26, 1886) While the scant evidence is solid, their
partnership was probably a fleeting moment in time. The earliest evidence comes
in the form of a State of <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state>
trademark number 1411, filed on January 17, 1887, by Schmidt and Lowell, who
shared in the exclusive use of the term “Sarsaparilla and Iron Water”. Having
never tasted such a concoction it doesn’t sound like something that could be
successfully marketed, which may also have been the thinking of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lowell</st1:place></st1:city> as well. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjko1cRbFzpxHAS-gRLotw_LMFukWHHgEcxP8aUPxYa7SaKGQMcswUjiu0XF8U8_CHprlEndiQeeSSrW7BMvY6-l_4WWIT3j27Q-6S4-xWuUyJ31MRVtCQHIgFLDhR6Zcg6oUCJkTtLnNe_/s772/d407caebdd50de204037f8d3270f9769.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="772" data-original-width="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjko1cRbFzpxHAS-gRLotw_LMFukWHHgEcxP8aUPxYa7SaKGQMcswUjiu0XF8U8_CHprlEndiQeeSSrW7BMvY6-l_4WWIT3j27Q-6S4-xWuUyJ31MRVtCQHIgFLDhR6Zcg6oUCJkTtLnNe_/s16000/d407caebdd50de204037f8d3270f9769.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj15RJWw0D-D0xbRBdlWz2eVKVM8u4B8YGthyE4RaOW3kTQ51D77Mn5kbluThq16UqVk_hNhijhmksQIKldRx28PwMHLjfSXzxMD90r-a8MMRnnV8WCQEhpYVZoR0icdxtFCwh54gzoyOk_/s985/Schmidt%252C+FW11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="985" data-original-width="575" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj15RJWw0D-D0xbRBdlWz2eVKVM8u4B8YGthyE4RaOW3kTQ51D77Mn5kbluThq16UqVk_hNhijhmksQIKldRx28PwMHLjfSXzxMD90r-a8MMRnnV8WCQEhpYVZoR0icdxtFCwh54gzoyOk_/s16000/Schmidt%252C+FW11.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b>The trade mark documents for Schmidt and Lowell filed January 13, 1887, securing the words SARSAPARILLA AND IRON WATER for their exclusive use.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt;">It can also be documented that the
Schmidt and Lowell partnership was still functioning several months later by
virtue of an extant sales receipt for a barrel of the same product, dated March
2, 1887. With that date in mind, note below that <st1:city w:st="on">Lowell</st1:city>
had formed another slightly later partnership with one Jimmy Howard in the real
estate business, in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:city>,
by September of the same year. Of course, it is always possible that <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Lowell</st1:city></st1:place> maintained his
partnership with Schmidt as a silent partner in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">absentia</i>, but his ubiquitous ways imply otherwise. Complicating
this issue even more is the fact that Frederick Schmidt was buried in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Stockton</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Rural</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Cemetery</st1:placetype></st1:place>
on September 28, 1887. His widow, the above noted Clara Schmidt, was the sole
heir of her husband’s estate and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lowell</st1:place></st1:city>’s
name was not mentioned in the probate process, further bolstering the idea that
he had severed his partnership with Fred Schmidt prior to his death.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A receipt for the sale of a barrel of Sarsaparilla and Iron Water,
dated March 2, 1887. There is some evidence that Rufus <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lowell</st1:place></st1:city> had left his partnership with Fred
Schmidt about June of 1887. It has been documented that a new partner, Walter
Blackmore Starbird, took <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lowell</st1:place></st1:city>’s
place at that time. Due to the length of this article, the later Schmidt and
Starbird relationship will be continued in another ‘chapter’.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHgoQMl2yXV-9ORaDXXh7uXd8QMfLM-qq9gWRv0vUgm5VAfR37kr-6Ovq2qfjiSeRSlZt3U7ib9B9Co6gRDXAUXPOESlP0ndpPh3erbmd_R4EeDjs8nKfQ1EDMHXrMWVQRhUCDXhtLoOHx/s2808/IMG_7870.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2808" data-original-width="1120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHgoQMl2yXV-9ORaDXXh7uXd8QMfLM-qq9gWRv0vUgm5VAfR37kr-6Ovq2qfjiSeRSlZt3U7ib9B9Co6gRDXAUXPOESlP0ndpPh3erbmd_R4EeDjs8nKfQ1EDMHXrMWVQRhUCDXhtLoOHx/w255-h640/IMG_7870.JPG" width="255" /></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /> </b><b style="text-align: left;">An example of the
Schmidt & Lowell bottle, embossed with their S & L monogram. This specimen may
look slightly different than most as it is the smaller size, containing about a
pint. The more common size bottle contains a quart. All specimens noted have an applied top.</b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By 1887 <st1:city w:st="on">Lowell</st1:city>
seems to have become closer his calling in life when he became part of a partnership in
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“A. J.
“Jimmy” Howard and R. C. Lowell have gone into the real estate business, and
opened an office at 40 1/2 South Spring street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These are stirring young gentlemen, and should meet with a great measure
of success”.</i> (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Los Angeles Herald</i>,
September 15, 1887) It becomes apparent that throughout the 1880’s <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Lowell</st1:city></st1:place> actively pursued a
number of jobs, with the hope that one may pay off. His next venture came in
1888, when the Sacramento Union noted, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Also,
of the Pacific Manufacturing and Construction Company, to acquire, own, rent,
bargain and sell clay land for the manufacture of brick, contract for the
laying of the same, etc. Principal place of business, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Directors – J.M Abrams, R.C. Lowell, L. O. Merrill, G.W. Judkins, J.R.
Mores, Capital stock, $50,000</i>.” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sacramento
Daily Union</i>, April 6, 1888)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p><st1:city w:st="on">Lowell</st1:city>
registered to vote in <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city> in 1888, and
registered to vote in <st1:placename w:st="on">Alameda</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype> in 1890, and then registered in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:place></st1:city> again in
1892. He then registered to vote in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Arizona</st1:state></st1:place>, in 1894. It is surmised
that these locations reflect his ‘temporary’ residences while he was working on
various street construction projects, since he was also noted in various
newspaper articles as working in those areas.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt;">In 1896 his wife, Nettie, filed a
complaint for divorce from Rufus, undoubtedly on grounds of desertion or lack
of support. (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">San Francisco Chronicle</i>,
19 Sep 1896).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt;">In the 1900 <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
census for <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">El Paso</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Texas</st1:state></st1:place>,
he was living with his second wife, Grace, having been married for about two years.
His occupation was noted as a street contractor. <st1:city w:st="on">Lowell</st1:city>
won a number of street related projects in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">El Paso</st1:city></st1:place> in 1900 and 1901.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>The 1920 <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
census finds Rufus still living with wife, Grace C. Lowell, but in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>. She was 65
years old, and born in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kentucky</st1:place></st1:state>.
Grace died Feb 20, 1923, in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Los
Angeles</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place>,
CA. Grace was the daughter of A.H. and Celia McDevitt.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At the age of 76, Rufus applied for a marriage license with
Ida L. Dickey, of <st1:city w:st="on">Hollywood</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>,
in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Maricopa County</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Arizona</st1:state></st1:place>, on January 20, 1928. Rufus died
July 1928 in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>
(<i>Los Angeles Times</i>, July 19, 1928)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The grave stone for Frederick W. Schmidt, located in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Stockton</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Rural</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Cemetery</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
It is extremely rare for a stone to not include any birth or death information.
I suspect there is an unusual story that goes with those major omissions –
especially the missing death date. Cemetery records document his burial date as
September 28, 1887. It is also interesting to note that an obituary could not
be found for Fred Schmidt.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p></p>Eric McGuirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180656958989600662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6842291092692051858.post-25003726758992285002021-08-02T18:11:00.002-07:002021-08-02T18:34:55.952-07:00<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"> DOWNIEVILLE 2021</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Apparently,
it’s true...”time flies when you’re having fun”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hard to believe that it’s been 28 years since
the first Downieville Antique Bottle Show was started in 1993.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The early show was a great success and set
the tone for future shows. Downieville offered something different from other
antique bottle shows; the charm of the small historic town and the camaraderie
of the bottle collecting community which both contribute to the draw of
Downieville’s show.</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Over
the years, the show gained popularity and featured several significant
first-time events in bottle collecting history.
The 1997 Downieville Western Whiskey </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Extravaganza
was amazing.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Never before had such a
collection of western bottles been featured in one exhibit.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Valued at over one million dollars, show
attendees were treated to a once in a lifetime viewing of rare and sought-after
antique bottles all in one place.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">
</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Another year, the show featured the most desirable Slug Plate and
Picture whiskies and many scarce and exceptional examples of early glass.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">These two events have shown that, although
small, the Downieville show has attracted the attention of many high-end
collectors.</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The
2017 Downieville Show was bittersweet; being announced as the last show to be
hosted in Downieville.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, after
several years of retirement and then the pandemic Corona Virus which shut down
so many shows across the country for over a year, it was decided to bring the
Downieville Show back to life!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Downieville will host another top-notch antique bottle show on Saturday,
September 18.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dealers from many western
states including, <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>, <st1:state w:st="on">Nevada</st1:state>, <st1:state w:st="on">Utah</st1:state> and <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:state> will be selling
at the show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Items for sale will include
antique bottles, insulators, gold rush items, advertising, saloon, mining and
railroad items, as well as many other western related artifacts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There will be something for almost every kind
of collector and finding a great treasure at this one-day show is inevitable!</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The
show venue is the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Downieville</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place> gym located in the
heart of Downieville. “Early Lookers” will be admitted for $10 between 8am and
10am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Admission will be FREE to all from
10am to 3pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t forget to purchase
tickets for the drawing to win some great prizes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope to see everyone at the Downieville
Antique Bottles & Collectibles Show and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sale</st1:place></st1:city> on September 18!</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii08ZF2nvMoHXUyKdyaieI6KK8BHGUBIDuLJAkvfNpJzNBpE7sT6fwpyxloDBw5RFh3PMgxtRziJDATSjWufmKIwh7NLzVX_1DmLbF4av7peAkR-3B9D6eLmPo-a4hhxU86BaV52VzuB9L/s1658/Downieville+2021a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1658" data-original-width="1108" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii08ZF2nvMoHXUyKdyaieI6KK8BHGUBIDuLJAkvfNpJzNBpE7sT6fwpyxloDBw5RFh3PMgxtRziJDATSjWufmKIwh7NLzVX_1DmLbF4av7peAkR-3B9D6eLmPo-a4hhxU86BaV52VzuB9L/w428-h640/Downieville+2021a.jpg" width="428" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b><br /></b></span><p></p>Eric McGuirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13180656958989600662noreply@blogger.com0