In 1890, Willis Sharpe Kilmer arrived in Binghamton, New York where he took over the advertising department of the family patent medicine business. Young Willis devised a new and extremely effective print campaign that turned one of the companies many products, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root Kidney Liver and Bladder Cure, into a household name.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWE4nnhSckM‘Uniquely New York’
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