Show old patent medicine men I 1 was as asking king au an old druggist recently what had become of the patent medicine men who advertised advertis cd their wares so extensively forty years ago there was old dr jacob townsends Town senda sends sarsaparilla ame mme modoc porters balsam Brand reths pills and others whom I 1 have forgotten dr townsend madon made a mint of money went d deep ce p into real estate speculations in this city and was forced into bankruptcy mrs porter forter sold out her business for and made herself comfortable the Brand reths live up in westchester county and are wealthy the old time advertisers of these patent wares mado made less of a rush than their successors but managed to I 1 get there therrall the all the same the greatest crash in this line came to walker the vinegar bitters man boso wife at one time cut a magnificent dash in central park with her gold plated harness and who erected a town building and library in his native town in massachusetts chu new nety york cor philadelphia record |