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Warner’s Safe Cure: “There’s No Such Thing as a Green Tippecanoe”
This very definitve statement was made to me some years ago and, at the time, I would have believed it given the evidence of my own eyes. Indeed, most, if not all of the so-called “green Tippecanoes”...
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Warner’s Safe Cure: Life and Death of An Observatory
The Warner Observatory in 1883 The Warner Observatory may, perhaps, be the best graphic representation of the rise and fall of the Warner’s Safe empire. I wrote about it in two parts back in May and...
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Warner’s Safe Remedies Building Endures
Construction of the Warner’s Safe Remedies Building began 130 years ago in 1883 and was completed in time for H. H. Warner’s 42nd birthday. Not many people get a building for their birthday, but Warner...
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Warner’s Safe Cure: Thousand Island River in Stereo
Recently, I posted some advertising for a product endorsed by H. H. Warner called “Adamant Plaster,” which was apparently used in Warner’s Cottage on the St. Lawrence River. The advertisements were...
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Warner’s Safe Cure: Marketing is Everything!
Although H. H. Warner lost control of his Safe Cure empire in 1893 as the result of a history of bad investments, against which he leveraged the business that had made him a household name, his brand...
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Warner’s Safe Cure: “No City” Safe Cure?
Photograph used by permission. Copyright (©2014wermuthgrafik.ch) Photograph used by permission. Copyright (©2014wermuthgrafik.ch) While we are all familiar with the so-called “3-Cities” (Toronto) and...
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Warner’s Safe Cure: Tippecanoe in Color
Other than the classic Safe Cure bottle, H. H. Warner’s other significant contribution to collectors was in the form of his figural bitters -Tippecanoe. Tippecanoe replaced Warner’s early bitters line,...
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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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Warner’s Safe Cure: Dunedin Reconsidered – The 4-Cities Office (1891-1900)
I’ve been doing this blog now for over 10 years and sometimes I struggle with trying to find new material that hasn’t been covered in one way or another. That accounts for my somewhat infrequent and...
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Warner’s Safe Cure: The Warner Observatory Revisited
The photograph below of The Warner Observatory from the Albert R. Stone Negative Collection of the Rochester Museum & Science Center shows the observatory sometime after its construction in 1883....
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