Hey Luke.... Local History

What? No Dr Birney's Catarrah Powder???

Couldn't forget that one. Got alot of others to list yet. But since you bring it up.

Dr. Birney's Catarrhal Powder....Was a preparation used for nasal congestion, colds, etc. It came in a small glass bottle with a glass tube in it used for snuffing the product. It was so popular in Chicago that factory women were spending their entire weeks pay on it. And apparently a dental assistant in Ellis was fond of it too since 96 bottles were found in his outhouse. A variety of other plain unmarked vials were found there too. Did I mention Dr. Birney's active ingredient was cocaine?

Ratzilla wrote:

Couldn't forget that one. Got alot of others to list yet. But since you bring it up.

Dr. Birney's Catarrhal Powder....Was a preparation used for nasal congestion, colds, etc. It came in a small glass bottle with a glass tube in it used for snuffing the product. It was so popular in Chicago that factory women were spending their entire weeks pay on it. And apparently a dental assistant in Ellis was fond of it too since 96 bottles were found in his outhouse. A variety of other plain unmarked vials were found there too. Did I mention Dr. Birney's active ingredient was cocaine?

Surely you jest.......

A few of old Hays City's Dance Hall girls.

"Annie" (family name unknown) 1879
Anne Ayers 1870
Nettie Baldwin 1872-75
Carrie Baxter
Mary "Black" 1879
Emma Bowen 1869-70
Emma Burns 1875
Lena Butler 1878
Martha "Calamity Jane" Canary, alias "Prairie Queen" 1868
Emma Crutchfield 1875
Pauline Fillmore 1870
"Carrie Foster" black woman 1876
Pauline Gibbs 1872
Lizzie Goddard 1870-72
Ida Harkicker 1872
Nettie Harwicker 1972
Carrie Howard 1870
Mary Kidd, black woman, alias "Nigger Kidd" 1872
"Lousy Liz" 1867-69
"Stinkfoot Mag"1867-69
Annie McKinsey 1872
Dolores "Steamboat" Martinez 1868
Ida May 1869
Mollie Metcalf 1870
Nellie Pool 1872-75
Ann Riley 1872-75
Ann Riley 1872-79
Lena Rivers 1870
Mattie silks
Ella "Smith" 1879
Lou Sherwood 1868-69
Lillie Thompson 1872
Nellie Thompson 1872
Sallie Van Houten1872
Mollie Whitecamp 1872
Jennie Williams 1878

Nice list. How many of them did you nail justoo?

None before 70 or so.

Some of them sound like real honey's. Like Lousy Liz and Stinkfoot Mag.

Patent Medicines popular in Ellis County Part 2

Common ones from 100 years ago you should know.

Fletcher's Castoria.
Pitcher's Castoria.
Chesebrough Vaseline
Mentholatum..... Early Jars were embossed Wichita Kansas. Used for alot more than you think.
Sloan's Liniment
Listerine

This next bunch are not so familiar now, but some were very common here in the late 1800's

Electric Bitters.... There were lots of Bitters brands.
Lash's Bitters The Best Cathartic And Blood Purifier..... Get drunk and take a dump.
Dr. Miles Nervine.... A tonic.
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery..... Consumption (tuberculosis) cure.
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.....It claimed to cure nervousness, dizziness and melancholy, promote the appetite, and give the body robust health without opium, cocaine or any narcotic. Lab analysis showed among other things agaric, derived from poison mushrooms, digitalis, a powerful heart stimulant, opium, and alcohol.
Liquizone.... Claimed to be liquid ozone and cure all diseases. It was watered down highly corrosive acids.
Pierce's Extract of Smart Weed....Cured anything from Typhoid to Cholera. With opium of course.
Boschee's German Syrup.... Cough medicine. Opium.
Dr. Jaynes Expectorant.....To relive chest congestion. Contained opium.
Mexican Mustang Linament...... Opium.
One Day Cough cure....Morphine and Cannabis Indica.
Green's Ague Conqueror....Malaria cure.
Swift's Syphilitic Specific.... Syphilis cure.
Newbros Herpicide For The Scalp....Dandruff cure
Burnette's Cocaine..... Dandruff cure.
Dr. Drake's German Croup Remedy.... Opium
Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.....Opium of course.
Shiloh's Cure.....Contained the new miracle drug heroin.

Ratzilla wrote:

Some of them sound like real honey's. Like Lousy Liz and Stinkfoot Mag.

Both of them are pictured here with Dolores "Steamboat" Martinez. Can you guess which is which?

Can't be 1860's saloon girls. Not enough body hair. And maybe too many teeth.