Local Advertising

Early 19th-Century

Examples of local advertising gives a sense of the fairly wide range of goods and services available. Danville would have seemed quite cosmopolitan to many of the rural families migrating to mill work in the city. (All ads transcribed from Milloway 1926.)

Examples of local advertising: 

DRINK COCA-COLA / IT WILL FRESHEN YOU UP, PLEASE YOUR PALATE AND QUENCH YOUR THIRST AS NO OTHER LIQUID WILL / COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY / Phone 2560 DANVILLE, VA

WHEN IN DANVILLE TRADE AT / BLANKENSHIP’S PHARMACY / 125 North Union Street Phone No. 2 / WE APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS / DRUGS AT CUT PRICES / BEST PRESCRIPTION SERVICE IN DANVILLE

GARDEN SEEDS OF ALL KINDS / Special prices to truckers

PARRISH POWERS / The prescription of a Famous Virginian / Physician for GAS, Indigestion, SOUR BELCH, HEARTBURN, Constipation, and Many Forms of Stomach Trouble

CHATHAM MANUFACTURING CORPORATION,
Chatham, Virginia

PATTERSON DRUG COMPANY
DANVILLE, VIRGINIA

EAT MORE Bread / DAN VALLEY MILLS
Danville, Virginia

DR. HARRIS MEDICINE COMPANY
Danville, Virginia

DR. HARRIS PRESCRIPTION
27270
TONIC LAXATIVE DIGESTIVE