Kabo Corsets (1895 advertisement)

If you appreciate a perfect fitting corset, give the Kabo 105 a trial. It's sure to please you. There is one DRESS STAY that won't melt apart, can't cut through the dress, don't stay bent. It is Ball's Peerless. A. SCHLANK, "Bee Hive," Fulton Street, Jamaica.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 14, 1895, p. 3.

Queen Surrey Strap (1895 advertisement)

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 31, 1895, p. 8.

Sovereign Java and Mocha Coffee (1895 advertisement)

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 24, 1895, p. 8.

Even Sandow (1895 advertisement)

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 17, 1895, p. 2.

Sulphur Bitters (1895 Patent Medicine Advertisement)

All Kinds of Flower & Vegetable Seeds (1895 advertisement)

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 22, 1895, p. 2.

Ayer's Cherry Pectoral (1895 advertisement)

Rochester Lamp Company (1895 advertisement)

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 15, 1895, p. 4.

Tony Pastor's Theatre

New York, 1895

A visit to New York City is hardly complete without a visit to Tony Pastor's theatre, the popular family resort of those who enjoy rare good fun and the very best specialty entertainment that can be presented. Mr. Pastor informs us that in obedience to the desire of his suburban patrons he has increased his matinees to four each week, and they will be given hereafter on each Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday. Our citizens when in New York should give Tony a call and they will be well repaid by an afternoon of rare enjoyment.


New Hotel in Brooklyn

The Arlington Hotel is a new and attractive house that has just been opened by Mr. C. A. Merritt at 317 to 321 Fulton St., Brooklyn. Mr. Merritt is a thorough hotel man, and our readers will secure the best of attention from him. This house is conveniently located for shopping expeditions.


Beware of Swindlers

We have exposed, during the last year, many swindlers who advertise, under the name of medicine, vile compounds which only increase human suffering. To all who need a pure medicine and blood purifier, we can honestly recommend Sulphur Bitters. — Editor Sun.


Demand for Small Houses

There is a big demand in Jamaica for small houses, but few, if any, are to be had. T. F. Archer's Son's on Wednesday had twelve applications for houses that would rent from $20 to $25 per month.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 8, 1895, p. 8.

A Martyr to Indigestion (1895 advertisement)

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A MARTYR TO INDIGESTION Cured by Using Ayer's Sarsaparilla

Words of Comfort to All who Suffer from Dyspepsia.

"For years, I was a martyr to indigestion, and had about given up all hope of ever finding relief, as the complaint only seemed to grow worse instead of better, under ordinary treatment. At last, I was induced to try Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and I hereby testify that after using only three bottles, I was cured. I can, therefore confidently recommend this medicine to all similarly afflicted." — FRANKLIN BECK, Avoca, Iowa.

"I am personally acquainted with Mr. Beck and believe any statement he may make to be true." — W. J. MAXWELL, Druggist and Pharmacist, Avoca, Iowa.

"I have used Ayer's Sarsaparilla for general debility and, as a blood-purifier, find it does exactly as is claimed for it." — S. J. ADAMS, Ezzell, Texas.

Ayer's The Only Sarsaparilla
Admitted for Exhibition
AT THE WORLD'S FAIR

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 1, 1895, p. 7.

Lead Based Paint (1895 advertisement)

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 1, 1895, p. 6.

Studebaker Bros. (1895 advertisement)

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 22, 1895, p. 2.

Shop Windows Abroad

1895

Ingenious Scheme of Merchants to Attract Attention to Their Wares.

"Europeans don't go in for newspaper advertising to anything like the extent that we do here," said an American recently returned from abroad, "but they take the shine right off Americans for original schemes to attract attention to their shop windows. In London, Paris and the larger cities in Belgium the shopkeepers are continually devising catchy advertisements. Shoe dealers, hatters, safemakers and men in various mercantile lines do the business up best, but the confectioners, pastry men and other small merchants are not a long way behind them. A shoe dealer in Brussels, who makes a specialty of a waterproof shoe, keeps a pair of the shoes standing in a pan of water in his window all day long. The water comes just up to the top of the soles, and the public are respectfully invited at all times to step up and feel the inside of the shoes and see that they are perfectly dry.

Another shoe dealer in London made a specialty of shoes for bus drivers, and his greatest claim for them was that they were unusually warm. He kept a pair of shoes imbedded in a cake of ice in his shop window, and any one could walk in and feel the inside of them and see that they were warm. A hatter in Antwerp who manufactures a waterproof silk hat keeps one of them in his shop window suspended over a pan, with a stream of water running over it. I never passed this store once without seeing a crowd of people standing in front of it, and I don't doubt that this scheme brought him many a customer he would not have otherwise had.

"In Paris a firm of safemakers employed two men to stand in the window of their place all day and hammer on the lock of one of their safes with huge sledge hammers. The novel designs that confectioners and pastry cooks get up and put in their windows attract the attention and admiration of all foreigners. Every confectioner in Paris who goes in for window advertising at all has a big Eiffel tower of candy in his window, but fine as the Parisian displays are they are not nearly so handsome as those in Brussels. The amount of cake and candy which is wasted in window decoration in the big Belgium cities is amazing. I can't see what use the sweets can be after the things are pulled apart, and certainly no one can have any use for a huge castle or figure made out of cake and candy unless it is used as a centerpiece on a banquet table.

"I have noticed in New York of late a tendency among small retail dealers to emulate the foreigners in this matter of window advertising. A Broadway shoe dealer is advertising his waterproof shoes like the Brussels merchant." — New York Sun.

U.S. Dental Association (1895 Advertisement)

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Jan. 25, 1895, p. 3.

Dukes Mixture Tobacco (1895 Advertisement)

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Jan. 25, 1895, p. 3.

Booming a Cigar

1895

"Do you know how to boom a cigar?" asked the advertising man.

The other man confessed his ignorance.

"Well, I've taken hold of a new cigar with instructions to make it a 'go,' no matter what it costs. Here are a few of the schemes: Of course I use the newspapers first and last, but I've got some other ideas. I've ordered some wooden cigars 6 feet long, which are to be carried through the streets. It takes two men to carry one cigar. Then I've sent out about 25,000 postal cards to men who smoke good cigars, and on each card it says, 'Present me at the nearest cigar store and get a —— cigar for 8 cents!' See? That postal card is good for 2 cents when applied on the purchase of one of our cigars. There won't be many of them presented, but it will be a good 'ad.,' and every man who gets one will be attracted by the novelty of the scheme. Then I'm going to put music boxes in the cigar stores and have the music come out of little organ pipes made in the shape of our cigar and labeled. Every dealer in the city gets a blue print cartoon each morning to hang in his window. Mention of the cigar is the biggest part of the cartoon. I'll send private boxes of the cigars to club stewards and well known dealers. When I've done all that, I'll try something else." — Chicago Record.

Widower Finds Housekeeper

1920

His Appeal Gets Results When He Adds "Object, Matrimony."

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania. — Joseph Duffel of Gloucester City, a shipworker and a widower for five months, found it impossible to get a housekeeper to answer an advertisement. So he added, "Object, matrimony."

Mrs. Rose Stafsky, 25 years old, also of Gloucester, a widow with three children ranging in age from 6 years to 6 months, found it impossible to get along comfortably without her husband. She saw the advertisement. The two were married at Elkton, Md.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Aug. 7, 1920, p. 5.

Braunsweiger Mumme (advertisement)

New York, 1895

The Braunsweiger Mumme is bottled by the Long Island Bottling Co., of Brooklyn, is made from roasted malt, the same as Dublin Stout, but is subjected to large beer fermentation, which only develops a small quantity of alcohol, thus producing a pleasant beverage, very nourishing and easy of digestion, but without the large percentage of alcohol contained in Stout. Experience has proven it to be very agreeable to persons of weak digestion when taken with meals, and also a great appetizer.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 18, 1895, p. 2.

New Receiving Tomb (advertisement)

New York, 1895

The plot owners of the new Cedar Grove cemetery at Flushing are to be congratulated on the beauty of the new receiving tomb, recently finished at a cost of many thousands of dollars. It is said to be the handsomest structure of its kind on the island. Graded payments and very reasonable prices for plots are also features that the public should note.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 18, 1895, p. 2.

For Over Fifty Years (advertisement)

1895

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used by millions of mothers for their children while teething. If disturbed at night and broken of your rest by a sick child suffering and crying with pain of Cutting Teeth, send at once and got a bottle of "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" for Children's Teething. It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. Depend upon it, mothers, there is no mistake about it. It cures Diarrhœa, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, cures Wind Colic, softens the Gums, reduces Inflammation, and gives tone and energy to the whole system. "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" for children teething is pleasant to the taste and is the prescription of one of the oldest and best female physicians and nurses in the United States. Price twenty-five cents a bottle. Sold by all druggists throughout the world. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup."