{"id":315,"date":"2013-11-17T20:47:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T20:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=315"},"modified":"2013-11-17T21:11:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T21:11:04","slug":"down-brakes-and-reverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Down Brakes, And Reverse!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: large;\">Chico Weekly Record, Chico, California &#8211; Saturday, December 25, 1897<\/span><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: large;\"><b>&#8220;When people are losing flesh and strength and vitality, with the life oozing out of them day after day, they need Dr. Pierce&#8217;s Golden Medical Discover&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/garretdom\/quackery\/train.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"958\" \/><\/p>\n<hr width=\"50%\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Here&#8217;s an interesting follow-up from Craig:<\/span><\/p>\n<table width=\"75%\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">I happened across your most interesting site while trying to answer a friend&#8217;s question. He is an amateur historian and archeologist in Lake County, California, and had posted a photo of a barn bearing an ad for Dr Pierce&#8217;s Medical Discovery. The ad you have posted from a weekly Chico, California newspaper provides the complete answer to my friend&#8217;s question, which came down to: &#8220;What did Dr. Pierce discover?&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/garretdom\/quackery\/PierceOK.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p><i>From the collection of The Comtesse DeSpair.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chico Weekly Record, Chico, California &#8211; Saturday, December 25, 1897 &#8220;When people are losing flesh and strength and vitality, with the life oozing out of them day after day, they need Dr. Pierce&#8217;s Golden Medical Discover&#8230;&#8221; Here&#8217;s an interesting follow-up from Craig: I happened across your most interesting site while trying to answer a friend&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=315\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Down Brakes, And Reverse!&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertisements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}