RECIPEES. / HOG CHOLERA. / Take six pounds of good ashes, two pounds of Lime,... [etc.]...../ TOILET SOAP./ Take on and a half pounds of Sal-Soda... [etc.]..../ PILES AND SCROFULA AFFECTIONS./ For curing all kinds... [etc.]... / WASHING SOAP./ Take six gallons of Farmer's Soft Soap... [etc.]... / HAIR RESTORER AND DRESSER./ Take three ounces of Bay Rum... [etc.]... We guarantee the above Recipees to give satisfaction. We deposit sufficient money with Merchants' National Bank to sustain it.
(Western District of Tennessee: Entered according to Act of Congress, by Geo. T. Gorton, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, 1870). Single sheet, 11 by 8 1/2 in. Red ink on beige paper. Forty-two lines of text. Some loss to one line with resulting loss to a few letters, in four words (still readable.) Detailed recipes are included for each of the items listed. A manuscript note along the bottom of the broadside, reads: "This is sold to [no name given] for his use only."
[I am pretty sure if I drank just the amount of rye whiskey called for in the Scrofula recipe, scrofula would not be my problem, if I lived. We also will deposit your money with similar guarantees, only the bank's name has changed to protect the innocent.]. Item #60214
Price: $150.00