Brandreth's Almanac / Brandreth Calendar, 1884
period advertisement · 1884
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SUMMARY
Full OCR text fetched directly from the Internet Archive/NLM digitization (note: the OCR on this scan is noisy in places, e.g. rendering 'injure' as 'in juro' and dropping an apostrophe in "Brandreth's", so this summary paraphrases rather than quoting the noisiest spans verbatim). A promotional almanac issued four years after Benjamin Brandreth's 1880 death by his successor firm, B. Brandreth's Sons, continuing his marketing under his name and signature. States that the pills are a pure vegetable purgative, innocent and harmless, warranted free from mercury, calomel, antimony, or any poisonous mineral, that they always do good and never injure, and that they act as blood purifiers and a diuretic, sudorific, and purge. Used in this bundle as evidence of the marketing claims (harmlessness) as sustained by the successor firm after Brandreth's own death, not as evidence of his own lifetime wording; the case and claim text note that the almanac postdates him.
NOTES
This 1884 Brandreth Calendar, a promotional almanac issued by B. Brandreth’s Sons four years after Benjamin Brandreth’s death, is fetched directly in full text from its NLM/Internet Archive digitization (a noisy OCR scan, so its claims are paraphrased here rather than quoted verbatim). It presents the pills under the founder’s continuing brand name and signature as a pure, vegetable purgative, warranted free from mercury, calomel, antimony, or any poisonous mineral, that always does good and never injures. Used in this bundle as evidence of the successor firm’s 1884 claims, not as a direct transcription of Brandreth’s own lifetime advertising copy.