Card, Trade

Trade card advertising Red Star Cough Cure. The recto bears an image of a boy wearing a white tunic emblazoned with a red star, a purple cloak, tights, and ballet slippers, and holding a sword while standing in the woods. A lengthy advertisement is printed on the verso:

Statement of Dr. Samuel K. Cox, D.D.,
Practical and Analytical Chemist,
Washington D.C.
"To the thousands whose systems instinctively shrink from the use of Morphia and Opium, and especially to mothers, who justly dread the evil, and, at times, fatal effects of these dangerous drugs, the Red Star Cough Cure must prove a boon.
It is not only entirely free from all opiates, poisons and emetics (a thing which not one cough preparation in ten can boast but it is altogether an original and most happy combination of the best remedial agents, and is as harmless as it is effective.
I base this assertion on careful analyses and numerous practical tests, the latter in every case, resulting in a speedy cure."
The RED STAR COUGH CURE commends itself to everybody for the following potent reasons:
It positively contains no Morphia, Opium or other Narcotics, Poisons or Emetics.
It is entirely harmless, and produces neither nausea nor other derangement of the stomach or system.
Its uses is not accompanied by the bad and, at times, most serious effects which so often result from nearly every other Cough preparation in the market.
It is agreeable to the taste and easily taken by every one.
It is a PROMPT, SAFE, SURE CURE.
The RED STAR COUGH CURE is sold by Druggists and Dealers in Medicine throughout the United States. Price 50 cents a bottle. Parties unable to induce their dealer to promptly get it from them, will receive two bottles, express charges paid, by sending one dollar to
The Charles A. Vogeler Company
Sole Owners and Manufacturers,
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
Red Star Cough Cure is sold by:
Frank Inglice,
Griswold and State Streets,
Detroit, Michigan.

"C. 1895," is handwritten at the bottom of the verso.