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Merchant's Gargling Oil Dream And Fate, Palmistry And C. Songster

Publisher: Merchant Gargling Oil Co. (Lockport, N.Y.)

Keyterm: Advertisements

Brand: Merchant's Gargling Oil Liniment

Language: English

Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker

Filename: msuspcsbs_merg_merchantg3

Citation: Merchant's Gargling Oil Dream And Fate, Palmistry And C. Songster. The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. Available at https://lib.msu.edu/sliker/object/11857

Copyright: This item is in the public domain.

Publication Date: 1888

Description: The front cover of the pamphlet is cream. It has a red bordered box with a singing clown holding sheet music with the words We All Use Merchant's Gargling Oil Liniment Established 1833 inside a brown bordered black circle. The print is black, white, blue and cream with red shading. The back cover is cream with black print. It has a red bordered box with a drawing of a prancing horse having its leg treated by two men dressed in Arab costume. It contains for the Sorenson Installment Co. 79 Broadway, Buffalo, N.Y. Headquarters for Christmas and Holiday Goods. The inside features drawings, a calendar for 1888, a letter To Our Readers, information about palmistry, song lyrics for the following songs: The Old Red Cradle, The Cricket On The Hearth, Just To Pay Our Respects To Maguiness, The Toboggan Slide, On Union Square, Rock-A-Bye Baby, Will My Robin Come Again?, When Nelly Was Raking the Hay, The Black Maria, O, As I Sat Upon My Dear Old Mother's Knee, The Light House By The Sea, Lullaby, from Erminie, You'll Hear The Bells In The Morning, The Maid Of The Mill, Hungry At Somebody's Door, There's No One Like Mother To Me, Ho! Molly Grogan!, The Exile's Lament, Bring Back My Fisher Boy, Major Gilfeather, The Scotch Brigade, Only A Rose From Mother's Grave, The Letter That Came Too Late, Honor Thy Father And Mother, I'm Flying High, I'm The Ghost Of John James Christopher Benjamin Binns, endorsements for the product, Practical Barn-Yard Knowledge, advertisement entitled A Paying Page For Farmers, advertisement entitled Dreams, advertisement and direction for using Merchant's Vegetable Worm Tablets.