New York, 1895William Barclay, second mate of the Scotch ship Barcraig, taking on a cargo of oil for China at the Standard Oil works, Long Island City, was found dead in his berth Monday morning.
Ayer's Cathartic Pills (1895 advertisement)
Henry Ward Beecher once informed a man who came to him complaining of gloomy and despondent feelings, that what he most needed was a good cathartic, meaning, of course, such a medicine as Ayer's Cathartic Pills, every dose being effective.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 19, 1895, p. 5.
