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H. H. Warner – A Retrospective – The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle (3 Nov....
It was barely a week after “Black Tuesday” and the initial crash of the Stock Market that signaled America’s descent into the Great Depression. The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle published a full...
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How Are Your Kidneys?
Filed under: H. H. Warner, Safe Cure, Safe Kidney & Liver Cure, Warner's Safe Cure Newspaper Advertising Tagged: Warner's Safe Kidney & Liver Cure
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Warner’s Safe Cure on Sale!
In researching Warner’s Safe Cure and the advertising that invariably is connected with it, I occasionally come across period ads that make me chuckle. In this 1896 ad for Lundblades in the The Great...
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Warner’s Safe Cure: To-Day There is Light for You!
A great 1901 ad for Warner’s Safe Cure that ran in The Evening Kansan-Republican: Filed under: H. H. Warner, Safe Cure, Safe Cure Advertising, Warner's Safe Cure Newspaper Advertising Tagged: The...
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Selling Tippecanoe in the Newspapers
If you could point to only one quality of H. H. Warner that accounts for his phenomenal success in the fireproof safe business and then, most notably, in the patent medicine business, it would have to...
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H. H. Warner Goes to Sea: Maritime Images in Safe Cure Advertising
As you can imagine, part of doing a blog on Warner’s Safe Cure involves research. Although I would consider myself to be knowledgeable about H. H. Warner and his patent medicine empire, I am always...
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Warner’s Safe Cure: Test Your Kidneys!
Part of the appeal of Warner’s Safe Cure was the fact that it sold the notion that any person could effectively be his or her own physician. With the United States in the throes of becoming an...
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Warner’s Safe Cure: Christmas Wishes from Down Under
Although I am a couple of weeks late, I recently stumbled upon this full-page Christmas Warner’s Safe Cure ad from The Sydney Mail dated December 20, 1890. I really like the ad because it is an...
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Warner’s Safe Cure: The Assassination of James A. Garfield
As I have recounted before, H. H. Warner had a brief, but heady flirtation with national politics. Although he served a the president of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce, Warner did not actively seek...
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The Giant of Medicines
This particular ad ran in the December 24, 1886 edition of the Conway Springs Star in Northfield, Kansas. This ad was not unique to that publication and, like many Warner’s Safe Cure ads, it was stock...
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