This 1953 article from the Greenfield Recorder-Gazette in Greenfield, Massachusetts, describes how the Toiletine Company of Montague, Massachusetts, started in 1885, when a “fast-talking medicine man” named Benjamin Franklin Miner set up shop in Hoosick Falls, New York, and moved it to Montague in 1900. Miner advertised his product as the “best type of all-round cure-all on the market.” He marketed this and companion products (for example, shampoos, lotions, and flavor extracts) by horse and buggy far and wide throughout New England. In 1910, William Ulrich bought the company and moved it to Greenfield, Massachusetts. It disappeared in the early 1970’s, probably due to the owner’s failure to advertise in an attempt to keep the company small.
Greenfield Recorder-Gazette. “Old Medicine Man Founded Toiletine Co.” June 9, 1953. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l06-019/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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