The Water Mill
Lowell, MA: C.I. Hood & Co., [between 1880 and 1889?]. Pamphlet. [16]p., illustrations, wraps. 4 x 4.5 in. Very Good.
Advertisement for Hood’s sarsaparilla, here marketed as a miracle cure. With two poems: “The Water-Mill” by Sarah Doudney and “Der Vater-Mill” by Charles Follen Adams, the second being written in dialect mimicking German-American immigrant accents.
Cat.No: 316523
Price: $20.00
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1880s,
Business history, theory,
Consumer, consumerism,
Crank science, Quackery,
German American,
medicine, alternative,
Poetry