Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-10-22
OLD TIME ADVERTISING.
Some Curious Examples In Anoieat
English Prints.

An American man once said that his
creed was
Early to bed. early to rise
Never get tight and-advertise.
The Anglo-Saxon has believed in this
dictum ever since the first newspaper.
Some early advertisements are curious
enough. Here is one of 1864:
Without Bishopgate, near Hog Lane,
over against the Watch House, liveth
one Jacob Summers, a weaver, who
maketh and selleth town velvets at rea-
sonable rates.
Another of the same date shows that
we had not yet gone to Homburg and
Vichy, but were content with home pro-
auctions.
cat the Angel and Sun in the Strand,
near Strand Bridge, is to be sold every
day fresh Epsum Water, Barnet water,
Epsum ale and spruce beer"
Apollinaris and the water companies
were not yet existing.
Here is an early side show:
cat the Miter, near the west end of
st. Paul's, is to be seen rare collection
of curiosityes, much resorted to and ad-
mired by persons Of great learning and
quality; amongst which ohoyce Egyp-
tian mummy. with hieroglyphics, the
Ant-Beare of Brazil, a Remora, Tor
pedo, the huge Thigh-bone Of Gyant,
a Moon Fish, Tropick Bird, &c. "
The quack doctors were early on the
field:
1.-The much-approved necklaces Of
Joynts of the great traveller J. c.,
which absolutely eases children in breed
ing teeth, by cutting them, and thereby
preventing feavers, commissions, &C., are
sold by T. Burrell, at the Golden Ball
under st. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet
ST.
Whether they were the travellers own
Joints, used as relics, we are not inform
ed.
And how is this for undertakers?
cat the sign of the Golden Ball and
Coffin, coffin-maker's shop at the up
per end of the Old Change, near Cheap
side, there are ready made, to be sold,
very fashionable laced and plain dress
ings for the dead Of all sizes, with very
fashionable collins, that will secure any
corpse above ground without any i'll
scent or other annoyance as long as
shall be required. ~
And here is actually soap advertise
nent which beats the record, even OF
Pearnolia:
civilian Delaval, at the sign Of the
Angel and Stilliards, in St. Anne's
Lane, near Aldersgate, London, maketh
CASTLE, marble and white sope, as good
as any man sells; tryed, proved, and
sold at very reasonable rates. F"
There are plenty of "Losts' and
"Stolens. Here is pretty specimen:
"Lost, upon the 18th inst. little
blackamoor boy in blew livery, about
10 years old, his hair not much curled,
with silver collar about his neck, in
scribed Mrs. Manby's blackamoor, in
Warwick Lane. Whoever shall give
notice Of him to Mrs. Manly, living i'll
the said lane, or to the Three Cranes,
in Paternoster Row, shall be well re-
warded for his peynes.
Here is notice Of 100 years ago:
"For nervous, Bilious, Consumptivo
and relaxed Constitutions, DR.. Soland-
er's Sanative English Teal universally
recommended and approved by the most
eminent Physicians in preference to
foreign tea as the most pleasing and
powerful Restorative in all nervous
Disorders hitherto discovered. Our first
ailiment at breakfast being designed to
recruit the waste of the body from the
nights insensible perspiration, an en-
quiry is important whether India Tea,
so generally allowed to unnerve, is ade-
quate to such purpose, etc.
How like what we see in our daily
papers now To-day.