{"id":987,"date":"1957-04-12T16:34:02","date_gmt":"1957-04-12T21:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/?p=987"},"modified":"2016-06-26T16:35:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T21:35:25","slug":"early-ads-edgar-c-humphreys-tin-sheet-iron-worker-l-k-burket-brother-t-t-worrall-sons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/?p=987","title":{"rendered":"Early ads: Edgar C. Humphrey\u2019s Tin & Sheet Iron Worker, L.K. Burket & Brother, T. T. Worrall & Sons"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"55_image01\"<\/a>In last week’s issue, your columnist described some of the advertisements which appeared in the cook book put out in 1892, by the Ladies\u2019 Aid Society of The Wayne Methodist Church. The picture in this week’s column shows the stove on which the lady of the house could try out the delectable recipes. It could be purchased right on Wayne avenue, at Edgar E. Humphreys, Tin and Sheet Iron Worker. Such a stove, as illustrated in this article, was called the \u201cValley Novelty Range.\u201d It could be kept \u201cbrilliant and black\u201d with \u201cSolar Paste\u201d for which the housewife was \u201cto ask her grocer and take no other.\u201d<\/p>\n

L.K. Burket and Brothers, now operating more than 60 years later under the same firm name, could sell the housewife \u201cthe best Lehigh and Susquehanna Coal at the lowest market rates\u201d as well as \u201cthe best Virginia pine kindling wood, two or three sticks of which will be of service in getting up a quick fire, at a trifling cost, for an early breakfast or hurried meal.\u201d C.B. Walton and Company, with offices in both Wayne and Devon, would also sell coal, as well as lumber and feed.<\/p>\n

In Wayne, T.T. Worrall and Sons, whose specialization was \u201cfine teas, coffees and spice\u201d would supply the housewife with \u201cfancy and staple groceries.\u201d From Philadelphia, Showell and Fryer sent a salesman every Saturday to solicit orders for their \u201cfine groceries,\u201d which would be delivered by wagon the following Monday. E. Bradford Clarke, \u201cfamily grocers,\u201d located at Chestnut and 15th streets, had \u201cfree deliveries by wagon every Thursday of the year, at all points on the line of the railroad from Philadelphia to Devon.\u201d Woodman, Gillette and Company, Grocers, at 13th and Market streets, advertised that \u201cevery barrel of our Red Seal Flour is guaranteed to make 300 pounds of bread.\u201d (At that time there was no \u201cbread man\u201d making his daily rounds.)<\/p>\n

Among the small dealers in meat and groceries in Wayne, was C. Pugh, with his store at the corner or West Wayne avenue and Conestoga road. Apparently, the only milkman to advertise in the Methodist Church cook book was Joseph H. Childs, of Wayne, by whom milk was served daily. (This was still in the period when the milk man poured milk from his own big pail into the smaller one placed at the back door by the housewife.)<\/p>\n

Two advertisers, whose work was as vital 60 years ago as it is outdated now, were William P. Sassaman, harness and harness supplies, and Joseph K. Lentz, proprietor of the Wayne Wagon Works. The former was \u201cmanufacturer of Fine Harness and Harness Supplies\u201d located on Lancaster avenue, while the latter always had \u201cnew carts and wagons on hand\u201d and \u201cattended to all kinds of jobbing in his line at the shortest notice.\u201d Their places have been taken long since by the automobile dealer and the automobile repair man.<\/p>\n

In the 1890’s the Wayne Title and Trust Company was in a small and picturesque building, on the same site on which the present modern building now stands. It is now known as the Wayne office of the First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Company.<\/p>\n

J. M. Fronefield, Jr.\u2019s Wayne Pharmacy was just across the street, on the corner now occupied by the Sun Ray Drug store. Its proprietor was a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy who advertised his \u201cstock of medicines as equalled by but few city stores.\u201d But to one small girl of the 1890\u2019s, now one of Wayne\u2019s \u201cold timers,\u201d the store is still remembered for its soda fountain, where delicious ice cream sodas were dispersed for ten cents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In last week’s issue, your columnist described some of the advertisements which appeared in the cook book put out in 1892, by the Ladies\u2019 Aid Society of The Wayne Methodist Church. The picture in this week’s column shows the stove on which the lady of the house could try out the delectable recipes. It could…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radnorhistory.org\/archive\/articles\/ytmt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}