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Albany, NY was essentially founded on the beaver trade – for fur, not as "medicine." Long after the beavers were gone, a local #SnakeOil salesman got into a tussle with the State of New York and ended up getting his beaver seized (and don't think I haven't considered "Beaver Seizure" as a band name).
So here's the story of Dr. Jones' Beaver Oil:
https://hoxsie.org/2019/07/23/dr-jones-beaver-oil-no-beaver-no-dr-jones/
#Albany #AlbanyNY #AlbanyHistory #PatentMedicine #CureAll #Beaver #Beavers
Going through a newspaper from 1913 and saw this advert for "Hall's Wine", which claimed it could cure depression.
Found an interesting modern article about it (
https://windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/tag/halls-wine/). According to the article, Hall's Wine contained more than just alcohol, apparently the secret ingredient which "brightened life's outlook" was cocaine :blobcateyes: