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This was a really cool find in my grandfathers basement.
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"The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. Lee -
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, nice one. Man I wonder what some of those old Remedies and such tasted like.
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Wow ! Snake oil !Either cure ya or kill ya! I like that Ethan ...Lubbock County TxComment
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Awesome.
Thats a keeper.
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Nice find for sure. Did your grandfather collect old bottles himself? Because I think you are a young man, I don't think grandpa used the stuff.Comment
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He was what the folks in the anthracite region call a "sheenie". He collected anything, as long as it was old. He would buy things at auctions, including old, but not valuable, bottles. My uncle (his brother) was the real bottle collector. He found many bottles, and kept them. This one was probably bought at an auction. My grandfather was born in 1932, so he didn't use this stuff.
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That got me thinking of one of my favorite movies. Little Big Man. Dustin Hoffman was with a traveling medicine man , when the snake oil made people sick. Being caught , he and the Med man were tarred and feathered by the town folk. One of which was his long lost sister.. I’m laughing about the movie just thinking about it...
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Cool find, can you imagine having to chug that down?Searching the fields of NW Indiana and SW MichiganComment
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Can't help myself to look into things lolol. It was a "Digestive" bitter. https://youtu.be/oKqXz2yUfb4
DR. HARTER’S WILD CHERRY BITTERS
Circa 1885 – 1900
DR. HARTER’S / WILD CHERRY / BITTERS / ST. LOUIS
Label: For the relief of all Distresses of the Stomach. Will check immediately all sickness and tendency to vomiting, settles and sweetens the stomach, correct acidity, improve appetite, aid digestion. Unequaled as a remedy for all kidney troubles. The combination of wild cherry bark, juniper berries, buchu and dandelion is the best general tonic and light stimulant on earth.
Professor Shellman
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Yeah right! Ha ha! They could cure anything that had a scary name with some tree bark, swamp root and a paper clip. Kinda like a Victorian age Macgyver. -
Ethan, you would be surprised at the power of natural remedies. Alot of our modern medicines are derived from plants. Modern medicine has its "roots" in herbalism. Aspirin came from the bark of the white willow tree. You know where alot of the pain killers originate from? That's right, a plant..the opium poppy. Cocaine, which is used in medicine and is the parent of many topical and local anesthetics, derived from a plant. Marijuana has many medical benefits. Next time you have a headache, try some peppermint oil, altoids, or a fresh sprig of peppermint. Plants have very strong medicinal benefits!! Don't be lied to by the medical industrial complex and ticked into thinking that only their snake oil can cure a disease or make you feel better..after all, they are using plants to make the medicines that people use.
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Really cool, is the color honey amber?Comment
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That’s a very cool bottle. I don’t collect old bottles, but I do collect new bottles of odd alcohol. I don’t drink them, I just think they are colorful souvenirs.
Here is a bottle of Chinese Medicinal Wine from the Philippines I bought last week. I think it was $3 a bottle. Supposedly cures all sorts of “what ails you”, kind of a modern equivalent of your cool old bottle.
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