The Auto-Sickle Company of South Natick, Massachusetts produced this Allcut model push lawn mower around 1930. This type of side-wheel, cutting cylinder style mower was popular in America. Most Americans before the Civil War did not have lawns because grass was for animals. With a growing trend toward suburbs and single family homes came the need for lawn maintenance.
Many factors led to the suburban design of the single family home surrounded by a yard, including mid-19th century romanticism, transportation, real estate developers, architects, water and sewer systems, and new magazines about suburban life. Research and educational materials from the Department of Agriculture, The U.S. Golf Association and the Garden Club of America also popularized lawns. Garden clubs promoted the "City Beautiful" Movement before WWI, and federal support of the Victory Garden during WWI added to the idea. After the war, the desire was also shown in the middle-class auto suburbs. By the 1930s lawns were a standard suburban landscape feature across America.
The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
By taking the contents of this small bottle, you will readily perceive the remarkable curative qualities of this great New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs, Colds, and all Diseases of the Throat, Chest and Lungs, which will convince you of its wonderful merits, and show you what can be done by a regular one dollar size bottle. Give it a trial. Dose for adults one teaspoonful every three hours.
Proprietary (patent) medicine makers employed a wide array of advertising and marketing techniques to sell their products. The free sample, or trial size, was one of these. Dr. King's New Discovery, developed by Dr. Z. L. King of Elkhart, Indianna, was purchased by Herbert E. Bucklen around 1878. Bucklen spent lavishly on advertising which brought national recognition to his New Discovery and other medicines.
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
Coughs, colds, hoarseness, bronchitis, grippe cough, croup, whooping cough and measles cough; also to relieve cough of asthmatic and consumptive patients in incipient or advanced stages of their disease