One card advertising Sholes' Insect Exterminator

Title

One card advertising Sholes' Insect Exterminator

Description

1880? One card advertising Sholes' Insect Exterminator by means of the "Fable of the Ox" on the back of a card; the front of the card tells us to read it. The colored picture shows an emaciated and exhausted ox next to a healthy one who proclaims "25 Cents Worth of Sholes' Insect Exterminator makes me happy and fat." 3" x 4½".

Some fable! Sholes' is manufactured by the American Chemical Mfg. Co. of Rochester, NY. The card is in poor condition.

Date

1880?

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