The town name (Owego) caught my eye--I live a little north of Owego in Ithaca. If the info I just googled is correct, Otis S. Beach was born in 1860, member of the NYS Assembly in 1911, so it may very well be from the 1920's. What a neat find!
Well...if you make it out this way you can still catch the harborfest! The strawberry festivals are not to be missed--I usually eat more than the legal limit. And don't you just love all the little shops? Definitely not the west coast, but a cool little town. After reading our posts, something buzzed in the back of my head. Out to the shed and into an old wooden barrel, fished out all the old bottles I'd gotten over the years and guess what I found! A bottle used for witch hazel with 'Otis S. Beach, Druggist, Owego, NY printed on the label--just like the one on the cookbook Chamisa posted. I just love this group. Small world, kids! :-)
!!! Wow. Please, pretty please, would you post a picture of it? I'd love to see it.
Now I'm extra curious to know how this little 80 year old book came all the way from Owego, New York to Albuquerque, New Mexico, which is where I bought it last week. And I'm also extra curious to know more about what Owego is like, now that ol' Otis S. Beach has become more of a real person and less of an abstraction.
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Now I'm extra curious to know how this little 80 year old book came all the way from Owego, New York to Albuquerque, New Mexico, which is where I bought it last week. And I'm also extra curious to know more about what Owego is like, now that ol' Otis S. Beach has become more of a real person and less of an abstraction.
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