Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-01-29
: Montgomery SideLghts
By ELSIE WHITE HAINES

do you remember anything
about this newspaper" We last
week asked the aged Miss Marga-
ret Fields, showing her a copy of
"The Rockville Journal and Mont
gomery County Advocate" of jan
uary 81, 1854. "Of course l do,
she replied "My father and Mr..
Braddock published it for about
ten years = it was a Wing paper
and died with the Wing party"
"Miss Mag" chuckled and said:
"The next year father started The
Sentinel (1855) and there was
great concern in the family-some
were afraid he would endorse The
Know Nothing party-but my
mother did not worry-she knew
he would not be so foolish" Miss
Mag, who is now SO. was only
small child in 1854 but she heard
these things discussed during her
childhood.
For those who perhaps never
heard of it, the Know Nothing or
Anti Catholic Party was a secret
oath organization which assumed
the name of The American Party
and was quite active during the
years preceding the War Between
This States. Its nature and objec-
tives are said never to have been
quite clear, members when ques-
toned always replied that they
"did not know"-hence the name
Know Nothing.
But back to The Journal. John
z. Muncaster, Sr. of The Ridge
near Laytonsville, who is only
few years younger than Miss
Fields and The Sentinel, sent US
the paper thinking we would get
a kick out of the advertisements.
The theme of the publication
might have been taken from an ad
from DIR. William Young of Phila-
delphia which says doctor Your
self! THE POCKET AESCUL-
APIUS OR EVERYONE HIS
OWN PHYSICIAN" The adver-
Using columns are almost filled by
patent medicine ads which offer
cures for all ills from cancer to
FITS, FITS, FITS.
William Braddock and Co. of
Quality Hill in Rockville, carried
variety of the most approved
Patent Medicines" such as Yellow
Dock Root, which took up half
column of space enumerating its
many -Calomel Jalap what
ever that was), Hampton's Tine
ture, Old Doctor Townsend's Sar-
saparilla, Green's Oxgenated Bit
tcrs, Railways Ready Relief Davis
and Miller's Collie Relief, Kidwell's
Beach Drop and many others.
E. H. Stabler & Co., Wholesale
Druggists of 120 Pratt Street,
Baltimore, took three-fourths col
umn to tell of the virtues of Stab
ler's Anodyne Sherry Expectorant
and Stabler's ''Diahrraea" Cordial,
which the company claimed was
recommended by "many members
of the Medical Faculty, and by
Pharmaceutists and Merchants,
that "these are medicines worthy
Of trial of different stamp
from Quackery and Cure-Alls so
much imposed on the public"
These remedies were for sale by
DIR. J. ]. Martin and Thomas Lii
shear at Ellicott's Mill; Henry
Stabler, Rosslyn; Samuel G. Veirs,
Poolesville; S. C. Veirs and Co.
and Veirs and Higgins in Rock
vile.
There were few other local
ads. Owen Sheckell was buying
and selling Negroes of "both sexes
and of different sizes and ages"
E. w. Hall was selling "a Self
Generating Gas to take the place
of oil and gas lights" Bouic and
Mace advertised all kinds of cloth
ing, dry goods and the inevitable
drugs and medicines. One said |
Warts and Toothache Cured in
Two Minutes" Lemuel Clements,
trustee, offered for sale the farm
of the late James White, adjoining
the farms of Lyde Griffith and
Remus Riggs, three miles from
Laytonsville. Jas. A. Shaw, supt. |
offered "high wages" for a woman
to work at the Aims House. White