Days
of Yore
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as
recounted
by
Bill
Day
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Old
Herb
Lady
Also adjacent to the library only separated by
the
Rhoads house on the corner of Clement Street and Haddon Avenue, on
the
site of Mrs. Carey's antique establishment, there once stood a log
cabin.
In the log cabin lived an old lady called "The Old Herb Lady"
because
of
the many herbs she collected and hung from the beams of her
cabin.
Many a parent with a sick child would call on "The Old Herb Lady",
describe
the child's symptoms and ask for some medicine. The old lady
would
mix a connection from her herbs and give it to the worried
parent.
The success of her prescriptions became so well know around town
that
she
began to hurt the medical profession. Soon a ordinance was
passed
prohibiting her from dispensing her medicines. Her problem
was
that
she was too advanced for her time.