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Hoxsie bottle!
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Do not want (at least not at $57), but I was pleasantly surprised when a Google alert brought me the news that there is a Hoxsie bottle out there for sale. Perhaps there are thousands, bottle collecting is not my thing. If you want to know what a cool, refreshing bottle of Hoxsie looked…
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Bent Fellies
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It’s 1858, and you need bent fellies. You need Winne & Northrop. How did they bend their fellies? Well, it’s just possible they used Mann’s Felly-Building Machine. (A felly is the outer rim of a wheel, to which the spokes are attached.)
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Cigars, tobacco and school supplies
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In 1905, Capital City News distributed newspapers, including the late New York evening papers and imported German publications. They also dabbled in school supplies, cigars and tobacco. That’s a combination you wouldn’t see today.
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E.S. Randall, Fashionable Goods
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1870. Being a gentleman of taste and judgment, I want to go to there.
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Rinso
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I’ll try for just a moment to focus only on the non-sexist elements of this Rinso detergent ad that ran in the Schenectady Gazette in 1921. Oh, wait. There aren’t any.
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Two great tastes that go great together
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Beer and bologna. In 1862, Frederick P. Durr was running a saloon and bologna manufactory at 166 State Street in Schenectady.
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Albany, City of the Bald?
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If you believe what Professor Henry A. DeMunn had to say in 1862 (and I demand to know the provenance of his doctoral degree), that he had been working for a year and a half with the worst cases of baldness to be found “in this or any other country,” then you have to…
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Light fixtures at war prices!
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I’ll admit that I’m not sure whether “war prices” were a good thing when John A. Edwards took out this ad in 1862’s Schenectady directory. This was the golden age of gas lighting. But while he was fitting your pipes, you might as well get him to hang your door bell in the most…
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