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YPSILANTI MINERAL WATER SALTS - 1/7/2010 1:13:37 PM    georgeoj Posts: 715 Joined: 6/30/2007 From: Jonesville, Michigan Status: offline This came out of a shop. Can anyone give me any info on it? Six inches tall. Thanks! George Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: YPSILANTI MINERAL WATER SALTS - 1/7/2010 4:09:26 PM    surfaceone Posts: 7141 Joined: 12/9/2008 Status: offline Hello George, Tubal Cain Owen was the maker of your bath salts bottle. Some of the British members might call it a "Lootique." In the latter part of the 19th Century Ypsilanti became for a while a destination "for the waters." Tubal Cain owen jumped on this new phenomena and sunk his "Atlantis" well. “If you are sad, with sickness worn, And have the headache every morn, Just come and drink a healing horn, Of Ypsilanti water.” —- from a Ballad for Ypsilanti Mineral Spring Water" Found here. "Tubal Cain Owen was not a man to do anything by half-measures. When he drilled for water and struck a vein of smelly reddish-brown liquid of questionable ingestibility, did he drill elsewhere? No! He marketed the heck out of it! Owen sold his water across the nation as a life-giving elixir--even as a cancer cure. It was Ypsilanti's golden age of dubious curative water, just shy of the turn of the century. But the glowing testimonials festooning Owen's miracle beverage withered away with the 1906 Pure Food Act. Also, "local residents complained of the yelling of the patients at Owen's house of healing so the state condemned the property, claiming that the sanitarium posed “a serious menace to the social life of the Normal College,” allowing it to then “acquire” the land for the college's use. The Roosevelt Building was constructed on the site of the former Owen home as a high school for teacher training." Found at this pretty cool Ypsi Blog. There's more information and a mounted photo of Tubal Cain at this Ypsi Historical Society site. There's more information out there, but my old computer doesn't want to cooperate. Thanks for putting this cool bottle up. (in reply to georgeoj) Post #: 2

RE: YPSILANTI MINERAL WATER SALTS - 1/8/2010 2:44:50 PM    druggistnut Posts: 1150 Joined: 1/7/2006 From: Otisville, Michigan Status: offline George, Those bottles USED to go for about 50.00, but someone came across a truckload of them (complete with labels/contents) and drove them down.  If I get 10.00 for one at a show, I'm happy. Bill _____________________________ Michigan drugstore bottles/dose glasses, jugs, etc... Any paper from Mich drugstores, pre 1900. Michigan hutches. Anything unusual from Michigan, i.e., paper from bottlers, etc... Buy or trade President-Flint, Michigan FOHBC Club (in reply to georgeoj) Post #: 3

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