It seems that even in the late 1880s you couldn’t get away from any number of quacks trying to sell remedies to the size problems that plague men everywhere (or so we’re meant to believe).  The fact that this appeared in a paper of that time is…pretty amazing.   I wonder what the remedy actually WAS?   Juice of beetroot?   Powder of goat tongue?   The world may never know.

MEN ONLY

REMEDY FREE.

Manhood restored; parts enlarged. I have found a means of certain self cure.  I will send the recipe FREE (sealed) to any sufferer.   It cured me after all else had failed.

The Paperwall Feature: For the next few weeks, this blog will be running a regular feature called, “Paperwall”. You can view all postings in this category by clicking here. These are small excerpts from very old newspapers that were used as wallpaper backing in a house I used to live in.   When I redid the bathroom and pulled down the walls, these were exposed.   I kept a majority of the very large pieces and have scanned them and poured over them for interesting bits and pieces.    The newspapers I can identify are The Des Moines Leader of Des Moines, IA; The Sheffield Press of Sheffield, IA; and The Weekly Constitution of Atlanta, GA.   There were only two datelines I could find — November 16th, 1886, and October 30th, 1888.   The sheer age of these papers and that they’ve been preserved this long is impressive.    I found it terribly interesting to see what they had to say.