surfaceone
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Hey John,
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 I think these two are cool. They must be older b/c you can tell the neck is not completely straight on both. They both say DR S. B. H. & Co. on the bottom. One has 90 (or is it 06? if so seems it's upside down) on the bottom, the other has 55. They are dirty inside, but are not chipped on the outside and both have some clear bubbles in the glass.
These are Peruna's.  "The Bottle marked Dr. S.B.H. is a Peruna bottle. Peruna was a top seller around 1900 and was a true cure-all. One testimonial says, "I am happy to say that my little boy, five years old, is cured of deafness by your Peruna." The medicine was for catarrh, cough, weakness, consumption, grippe, dyspepsia, stomach and bowel trouble and a host of other ailments. Dr. Samuel Hartman first started in the patent medicine business in the late 1870s with his LA-CU-PI-A. Around 1879 he began making the Peruna as well as another medicine MAN-A-LIN. He moved to Columbus, Ohio from Pennsylvania. Where he successfully sold a bitters he had purchased from Benjamin Mishler, Mishler's Herb Bitters. By 1905, Peruna, which Hartman preferred to spell, PE-RU-NA, was perhaps the top selling brand in the country. One reason was a voluminous advertising campaign and another was it was 28% alcohol. A bottle of Peruna was made from about a half pint of cologne spirits, 190 proof, with a pint and a half of water, adding a little cubebs for flavor and a little burnt sugar for color. The cost to Dr. Hartman was about 15 to 18 cents for a bottle which sold for $1.00... The Peruna bottles sell for $2-5..." From.
I think of these guys as dump bombs. I've found several that remained intact after smashing through more delicate glass on their way to the dirt nap.
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