RARE Advertising Quack Medicine 1890s Pacific Mail Biggs CA California Carnduff

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RARE
Advertising Pamphlet
The Pacific Mail
Quack Medicine
Vol. 1, no. 1
F. F. Carnduff Company
Biggs, Calif.
ca 1890s - 1900
For offer: a nice advertising piece of ephemera! Fresh from a prominent estate in Upstate NY. Never offered on the market until now.
Vintage, Old, Original, Antique,
NOT
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Frank F. Carnduff was an early pioneer and printer in this area of California. This piece is very rare - I could not find anything on it, or any copies worldwide. Quack medical. Interesting ad for removinf tattoo marks. Very small - measures only 5 3/8 inches tall.
In good condition except small piece ripped out of last page. Please see photos.
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History[edit]
A post office was established at Biggs Station in 1871, and the name changed to Biggs in 1884.[9] It was incorporated in 1903.[9] Biggs is named for Maj. Marion Biggs, who first shipped grain by rail from the town's location.[9]
In late 2002, the town's mayor received a letter from Jeff Manning, executive director of the California Milk Processor Board, proposing that the town change its name to "Got Milk?". The town council of Biggs subsequently rejected the proposal.[10]
FRANK FORD CARNDUFF was born in West Galway, Fulton county, New
York, March 25, 1845.  His father was born near Glasgow, and with his
grandfather moved to the United States when only nine years of age, and arrived
in California in the spring of �49, via Cape Horn, and has lived in or near
Stockton ever since.  The subject of this sketch, with his mother, sailed for
California February 6, 1852, via Nicaragua, and was wrecked on the Coast of
Central America February 27, 1852.  After a long stay in the woods, the wrecked
passengers procured transportation to Acapulco, where Frank was sick with the
fever for a number of months, and did not reach San Francisco until late in May.
He lived with his parents near Stockton until December, 1853, when, accompanied
by his mother, he returned to New York, that he might have the advantage of a
liberal education.  During the war, he served in battery A and M, of the seventh
N.Y. artillery, and was discharged August 15, 1865.  During said service he
performed duty on the staff of Gen. Lewis O. Morris, and on detached service in
Alexander, Virginia.  He was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, on the third
day of June, 1864.  After a partial recovery from his wound he was breveted
colonel, and assigned to duty at Fairfax, Virginia, and in 1865, at the Ira
Harris hospital at Albany, New York.  His health failed and he came to
California, the second time, in July 1872, and traveled as manager of agencies
for the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company of Maine.  He returned to Albany in
July, 1873, but came back accompanied by his wife, in October, 1874, and located
at Milton, Calaveras county.  He was admitted to the bar the same year, and
removed to Wheatland, Yuba county, in November, 1877, where he practiced law and
published the Wheatland Recorder until March, 1880.  At this time he removed the
press and material to Biggs, Butte county, and established the Biggs Recorder.
In 1880, he was deputy county clerk and deputy district attorney for Butte
county.  He is a prominent �society man,� and joined the F. & A.M. when only
twenty-one years of age, and has filled a number of important offices in the
same and other orders.  He is now the D.D.G.M.W. of Butte county, and grand
representative of Biggs lodge, No. 102, A.O.U.W., for 1882.  He is a noble grand
of Bidwell lodge, No. 47, I.O.O.F.; post commander of Canby post, No. 18,
G.A.R.; grand representative to grand encampment of the department of
California, and is a member of eight different orders.  Mr. Carnduff is not only
an able, but a very popular man in social and public life.
History of Butte County, California: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present
Time - Vol. II -  Harry L. Wells & W. L. Chambers - 547 Clay Street, San
Francisco, Cal., 1882.
Nearby towns in Butte County :
Cities[edit]
Biggs
Chico
Gridley
Oroville (county seat)
Paradise
Census-designated places[edit]
Bangor
Berry Creek
Butte Creek Canyon
Butte Meadows
Butte Valley
Cherokee
Clipper Mills
Cohasset
Concow
Durham
Forbestown
Forest Ranch
Honcut
Kelly Ridge
Magalia
Nord
Oroville East
Palermo
Rackerby
Richvale
Robinson Mill
South Oroville
Stirling City
Thermalito
Yankee Hill
Ghost towns[edit]
Hamilton – Was Butte County's first permanent county seat. John Bidwell discovered gold at Hamilton in 1848, and the settlement arose. It was located on the west side of the Feather River, 15 miles (24 km) downstream from Oroville.
Bidwell's Bar – now located under Lake Oroville
Forks of Butte