an Interesting Bottle to Find and add to the Collection

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The Beaver herald. (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]), 31 Dec. 1914.

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https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...n-Ic&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

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Meade County news. (Meade, Kan.), 08 Aug. 1918.
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https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...n-Ic&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

the Devil in Tighty Whities ? :tongue3:
sat1920.png Although the tonic's ingredient list was a closely-guarded secret, an FDA analysis performed in 1921 concluded that it contained vegetable oil, magnesium sulphate, cascara bark extract, salicylic acid, methyl salicylate, peppermint oil, water and a trace of alcohol.

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only info I could Find

half way down Page Journal of the Bizarre

But no Photograph of Bottle :( looks like Paper Label
 

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Hmm... I'll stick to locals, and sodas for now.:laughing7:
 

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To be truthful, that must have sold terribly. The Christian population, and even the sane population wouldn't buy anything satanic back then.
 

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To be truthful, that must have sold terribly. The Christian population, and even the sane population wouldn't buy anything satanic back then.

That's what The article Said. They were surprised with the Amount
of Christians back then that it was a Very Popular item.

I wonder if the People back then were Thinking Future Value
 

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From this idea Sa-Tan-Ic Tonic was born. Sold under the name Satanic Tonic at first, its inventors had a difficult time keeping it on the shelves of the Gehring Pharmacy. They set up a massive display featuring six hundred bottles and offered a money-back guarantee to any customer who found the product unsatisfactory. The bottles sold quickly, with only one out of six hundred customers asking for a refund.Demand was so high that Daniels and McGaugh quit their day jobs in order to manufacture their tonic full time. Armed with $50,000 from investors and lenders, the two druggists rented out the Butts Building in downtown Wichita and set up an office and a laboratory. They also hired two full-time salesmen as well as a chemist, W.O. Backman, formerly of the Southwest Drug Company.
 

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That's mind blowing to me. I've never heard of it until now. I'll have to see if anybody has any examples of such a bottle.
 

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I'd be damned if I would take any! :laughing7:
 

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The Cascara would probably be the Main Ingredient.
After a Good Dump most probably felt Better.

Cascara is Listed in a Getting Even Book.
Supposedly if you feed a certain kind to someone in a Drink they get violent Explosive Diarehia
but by the Time they get to the Hospital there is no trace
 

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We've got a popular hole-in-the-wall hamburger joint around here that'll clean you out like that too!
 

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