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Henry Pope Clearwater, Hallowell, ca. 1950

Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"… Times and Chicago Tribune soon created a patent medicine mail-order business that was unlike anything seen to that time."

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Wilder Oilcloth Factory, Hallowell, ca. 1895

Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"… mill and The Heart Cure Co., a large mail order patent-medicine concern. The largest single employer, established after the Civil War, was the…"