Enigma of the Catskill Aqueduct Chamber Revealed
A historical note describes a hidden 450 foot deep dynamite chamber within the Catskill aqueduct, built to store explosives away from New York City limits. The chamber, blasted in solid rock between shafts, includes a lone electric bulb and a sarcophagus like chest. Engineers planned a fuel gas test never performed, closing the tunnel entrance with concrete while the cavern remains as a lost human artifact.
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Catskill Aqueduct
New York
Three Day Sale Advertises Buy One Get One Free Items
A three day sale runs Thursday to Saturday April 20 21 22 offering buy one item at regular price and pay a little more to receive another of the same kind. Rexall toothpaste example shows regular 25c price with second tube for 1e. Merchandise is described as high quality standard, similar to daily offerings, and the sale is an advertising effort by United Drug Co. to attract new customers.
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United Drug
Rexal Tooth Paste Perfect Dentifrice Advert
Rexal toothpaste proclaims a perfect dentifrice with antiseptic and deodorant action. It cleans and whitens teeth and comes out flat on the brush. Standard price one tube twenty five cents, two tubes.
Banquet Jenice Talcum Powder sale entry list
Household needs 2 for 26c 2 for 36c 26c 2 for 1.76 25 Stork Nurser 2 for 26c ness. Daintily perfumed fragrance blends tube rose violet helic tre trop geranium jasmine and more. Includes Alma Zada Comp Powder 2 for 50c Violet Dulce Vanishs Cream 2 for 50c Violet Dulce Cold Cream 2 for 50c Talcum Powder 2 for 26c Blemish Soap 2 for 26c Medicated Skin Soap 2 for 26c Witch Hazel Shaving Lotion 2 for 26c Harney Imported Soap 2 for 11c Violet Cube Liquid Comp Powder 2 for 51.
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Harney
Household Remedies Sale Ad From A Historic Page
An old classified style advert lists household remedies with two for prices and single item costs. Items include kidney pills remedies for rheumatic and asthma, cod liver oil extract, celery and iron tablets, blood tablets and pencils, each item showing small two for prices and single prices around one dollar or less. The fragmented text mimics a late 19th or early 20th century retail promo.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Stillwater
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Jill
Oliver Goldsmith
CREAM
Rendera
Prac
Rexal
Liggett’s
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