This advertisement for the City Beer Garden, operated by William Asche, appeared in the Portsmouth Times on December 16, 1882. The establishment was located at the corner of Eighth and Chillicothe Streets in Portsmouth, Ohio — an area that, at the time, was becoming increasingly known for its saloons, beer Continue Reading
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Blake’s Big Show: Where the Buffalo Hang and the Possums Roast!
“Bear meat! bear meat! bear meat!Buffalo meat! buffalo meat!Venison! venison! venison!Turkeys, roasting pigs, coons, possums, chickens, ducks, geese, and the finest beef, mutton, veal, pork and lamb in the city, at Blake’s, Saturday and Monday, December 22nd and 24th.” “Go to Blake’s big show and see the Buffalo hanging whole Continue Reading
Old Homestead of General Kendall for Sale
“The ‘Old Homestead of General Kendall,’ situate one mile from Portsmouth, is for sale, and can be purchased low, and on easy terms. This is a very handsome country residence. There are twenty-three acres of level land, every acre of which is fit for garden purposes. The dwelling house is Continue Reading
Ephemera Friday #10: Patent Metallic Burial Cases
“Air-tight and indestructible, one of the most valuable inventions of the age, for protecting and preserving the dead, for ordinary interment, for vaults, or for transportation.” “The undersigned respectfully announces those having occasion for burial cases, that he is now prepared to supply the above named valuable article of all Continue Reading
Ephemera Friday #8: Banish Work
Today’s ephemera is an advertisement by the Marting’s department store in Portsmouth, Ohio, for the “Premier Duplex” electric vacuum cleaner that was produced by the Electric Vacuum Cleaner Company Inc., of Cleveland, Ohio. This style of advertisement for the Premier Duplex was common throughout the later 1920’s.
1853: Portsmouth Railroad House Hotel
“Railroad House, Jefferson Street, between Front and Second streets, Portsmouth, Ohio.” “The subscriber has just fitted up and opened a new Hotel, and is now prepared to accommodate travelers either by the day or week.” “He will spare no pains or expense to afford such accommodations as will make his Continue Reading
Let Flowers Be Her Valentine
This beautiful advertisement by Gustav William “Gus” Putzek, owner of Knost Floral Company at 1229 17th Street, Portsmouth, Ohio, got right to the point: “Thrill her with red roses. Capture her heart with gay violets. Delight her with a bright bouquet of carnations. We have a grand selection -have us Continue Reading
Ephemera Friday #2: The J.F. Davis Drug Company Advertisement
Today’s piece of ephemera is a postcard-sized advertisement from the J.F. Davis Drug Company, distributors of Johnston’s Dull Kote Paint, located at 518-520 Second Street, Portsmouth, Ohio. When we think paint we don’t often remember that the compounding expertise of pharmacists were essential to creating color matching paint in a Continue Reading
Valley Marble Yard: Staunton, Virginia
“The undersigned would inform the citizens of Staunton and adjoining country, that he has opened a branch of his Winchester Valley Marble Works in the above town and nearly opposite the Post Office, on Main Street, where he has and intends to keep constantly on hand a full supply of Continue Reading