Moodey’s Pharmacy, Painesville, Ohio Advertising Cover, E. W. Hoyt & Co.

This cover from 1895 features a printed corner card from Moodey’s Pharmacy, a business located in Painesville, Ohio. The corner card includes a decorative logo, the business name, and text indicating it was open “Night and Day” with “Telephone 89”. The envelope is hand-addressed in cursive to E. W. Hoyt & Co. in Lowell, Mass.. The top-right corner features a red two-cent United States postage stamp, which is canceled by a circular date stamp. The cancellation postmark is from Painesville, Ohio, dated Apr 22, 4 PM, 1895.

The back of the envelope features a clear circular receiving postmark from Lowell, Mass., dated Apr 23, 6 PM, 1895, confirming the transit time took approximately 26 hours. The recipient, E. W. Hoyt & Co., was a prominent manufacturing firm founded by Eli Waite Hoyt in Lowell, Massachusetts. The company was famous nationwide during the late 19th century for its proprietary cosmetics, primarily Hoyt’s German Cologne and Rubifoam tooth wash. Given that the sender was an active pharmacy, this correspondence likely related to ordering, billing, or stocking Hoyt’s commercial products.