Here's a selection of Instantaneous Invigorators & Cures of the 1900's. Those were the good old days when heroin and cocaine was sold over the counter for whatever ails you. Don't believe me? Check this out!!


It's a Bottle of Bayer's heroin!! Wow! Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive (???) substitute for morphine. It was also used to treat children with a strong cough.


Coca Wine, anyone? Metcalf's Coca Wine was one of a huge variety of wines with cocaine on the market. Everybody used to say that it would make you happy and it would also work as a medicinal treatment.


Mariani wine was the most famous Coca wine around 1875. Pope Leo XIII used to carry one bottle with him all the time. He awarded Angelo Mariani (the producer) with a Vatican gold medal.


Maltine with your Coca? Produced by Maltine Manufacturing Company of New York. It was suggested that you should take a full glass with or after every meal, but children should take half a glass.


A paper weight promoting C.F. Boehringer & Soehne (Mannheim, Germany). They were proud of being the biggest producers in the world of products containing Quinine and Cocaine.


Opium for Asthma. It was considered safe since it contained no more than 40% alcohol!


Cocaine Tablets! All stage actors, singers teachers and preachers had to have them in the 1900's for a maximum performance. Great to “smooth” the voice.


Cocaine Toothache Drops. Very popular for children in 1885. Not only did they relieve the pain, they made the children happy...


Opium for Newborns! This would make them sleep well, and was great for soothing a teething baby. Opium with 46% alcohol - Really? No wonder they were called The Good Old Days!

For those of you who don't read english, this is what it says:

"To all you hunters who kill animals for food, shame on you; you ought to go to the store and buy the meat that was made there, where no animals were harmed."

Wow!
That's nutty!

• 16 wives
• 7 hungry dogs
• 3 thin cats
• 25 kids and
• still horny
• please help with spare change

So the lamp post was in the way and they just built the apartment building around it?
Who approved that one?

For those of my readers who don't read English, here's what it says:

Hello:

I must say, I'm quite upset. I have been using images from your website on my website for a long time now and suddenly they are gone, and I am concerned. I am using my website to build up my business which is not easy and you changed the location or deleted them or something.

My concern is that if you do not upload the images again I might have to contact my lawyer as I am using these images for the purpose of advertising and this sudden change without warning means I have to find where you have moved them to and get them working again.

Why would you do such a thing? I am an honest business man and small business like mine never get respect. I hope you realize it took me a long time to find images I liked. Now I have to find your images again. Please put them back right away. I don't think you want me to call my lawyer about this.

Pleas contact me either at this email or at --- to resolve this matter.

Sincerely,

LOL!!

Who would do this?
And why?
Another pertinent question would be ... When?
In the middle of the night?
And then unscrew the light bulbs?
Ouch!

Attention Single Women, originally uploaded by Shirley Two Feathers.

I'm a retired poet who needs a wife.

1. Must be Aries
2. Must like long walks in rain
3. Must be VIRGIN

LOL.
I wonder if he got any takers!