page 93 -- W.H. Comstock, Sleepy Tom, A.W. Coates & Co., J.W. Skelly, Chief, Dalley's Magical Pain Extractor, Lydia E. Pinkham
Updated 5 August 2018 <PREVIOUS PAGE ~ index ~ NEXT PAGE> This print is very similar to a Currier & Ives print in the Springfield Museums collection " The Pacing Wonder SLEEPY TOM--the Blind Horse Record 2:12 1/4 " The site for Scenic Sugarcreek Ohio has a biography of Sleepy Tom , from which this exerpt is taken: From the card, one might conclude the horse had worms. Evidently, it was the jockey! From Google News comes this ad disguised as an article from the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald, 18 Nov 1897 . No need to read the fine print. The headlines make the point. Here's a brief biographical excerpt from Wikipedia for William Henry Comstock: "Born in Batavia , New York , Comstock was educated in Flushing, New York , and on leaving school started work as a clerk. He started his business in 1854, William H. Comstock Company, Ltd., which sold patent medicin...
