Advertising 1900 style.

Yesterday I was reading some local newspapers from 1900; I especially enjoyed the coverage in the run up to Christmas last year. To those living at the time Christmas and New Year 1900 was the last of the 19th century - as we celebrated the end of the century in 1999 we were in fact cheated of a whole year in the 20th century. If you are ever asked 'how long was the 20th century?',  the correct answer is not 100 years! The advertisers at that time  made far more amazing claims for their products than they do today. I made a copy of a couple that caught my eye (these are from the County Herald newspaper, published in Holywell, at the end of the year 1900).

There was not much these little pills did not cure; where are they now?

This was an advertisement repeated for a few weeks based upon some Dr's claim that people had been poisoned by bad beer - the beer makers had counter claimed that it was in fact from cheap tea. The answer according to the ad was to drink Mazawattee tea!