1904 ... The card inventories the 12 needles included.
And Baum's Celery, Beef, Iron and Wine is toted as being good for Nerves, Blood, Brain and Muscles. I think that just about covers it.
My husband's grandfather used to talk about driving a mule train for pennies a day at the turn of the last century.
And that works out to dollars a *week*. It seems to me that a dollar a bottle was asking a small forture. I wondered what the equivalent would be, so using the calculator at Measureworth I found out it's equal to $110.00 of an unskilled laborer's wages. That's a lot of sweat from one's brow for a bottle of snake oil!
My husband's grandfather used to talk about driving a mule train for pennies a day at the turn of the last century.
And that works out to dollars a *week*. It seems to me that a dollar a bottle was asking a small forture. I wondered what the equivalent would be, so using the calculator at Measureworth I found out it's equal to $110.00 of an unskilled laborer's wages. That's a lot of sweat from one's brow for a bottle of snake oil!
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Wow! That's as much as a bottle of Lipitor --and without the science behind it.
What a nice treasure to share!
"Mule Train" still sings in my head!
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