Merry
Christmas! 2007
from The Odebolt
History Pages
- Bonnie Ekse &
Barb Horak (the Girvan sisters), editors
CHRISTMAS PAST IN ODEBOLT
Step back in time to
Christmas 1915
.... and then to Christmas
1897
for an ad for locally-produced "Huskers Lotion"!
THE CHRONICLE. VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 35. DECEMBER 23, 1915.
Christmas Dance.
There will be a public dance held at the
opera house on Saturday evening, December 25, from nine until
twelve o'clock. Music will be furnished by the Princess Theatre
orchestra. The committee has done all within its power to make
this affair a pleasant one. Admission 75 cents.
THE CHRONICLE. VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 36. DECEMBER 30, 1915.
W. J. Ahlberg & Co. treated their patrons
and friends to music at the store last Friday afternoon [December
24]. The Princess Theatre orchestra was employed, and they
entertained the callers at the store during the greater part of the
afternoon. This firm is always alive. They supplied the music as a
treat to their customers and not with any idea of making it a trade
puller, but were rewarded anyhow with a nice day's business.
Perhaps this was given as a
Christmas present in the old days
when farmers were very probably still picking corn by hand in the
fields!
THE CHRONICLE. VOL. 11. NO. 24. OCTOBER 21, 1897.
The Finest Preparation for
Corn
Huskers' Sore Hands, Rough Skin,
Sore Lips, Etc.
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I am Sole Proprietor
and Manufacturer
OF HUSKERS' LOTION. It is an article which I
have manufactured and sold for the last eight years
and it has given eminent satisfaction.
This year I am
shipping it from Minnesota to
Texas and from Indiana to Wyoming. I can honestly
say it is the finest preparation of its kind on the mar-
ket to-day. Every bottle I sell you I guarantee that if
it does not give you satisfaction I will refund your
money. Try a bottle, 25 cents. Cheaper than bay rum
and glycerine.
Agent for Laurel
Laundry, Sioux City.
_________
CLOID H. SMITH, The Cash
Druggist.
"While C.H. was working part time in
a drug store and going to high school, the registered pharmacist in
the same store by the name of James Hassell, perfected a formula for
hand lotion, which was Huskers Lotion. When C.H. started in the drug
business for himself, he had this formula and during the time he was
in the drug business he manufactured this under the name of
The Union Specialty Company and distributed Huskers Lotion
throughout the corn producing states."
- From Cloid H. Smith Biography
According to Fred "Bud" Frevert, a
shirt-tail relative, Cloid Smith sold his trademark registered in
1898 to Ernste manufacturing chemists located in Iowa City in 1913.
The selling price was $20 plus royalties.
We believe that this lotion developed
by Cloid Smith, evolved into "Corn Huskers Lotion" which was
"originally developed for the dry hands of the Iowa corn huskers",
and which is still sold today.
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