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Pluto Water

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247: 259: 223: 271: 283: 235: 246: 258: 211: 195: 183: 50:, which are known as natural laxatives. The water's high native content of mineral salts generally made it effective within one hour of ingestion, a fact the company emphasized in their promotional literature. Company advertisements stated the laxative was effective from a half-hour to two hours after ingestion. In 1919, it took 450 railroad cars to transport the bottler’s output. 20: 78:
The water's high native content of mineral salts generally made it effective as a laxative within one hour of ingestion, a point emphasized in the company's promotional literature. Company advertisements stated the laxative was effective from a half-hour to two hours after ingestion. The active
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references Pluto water in his first novel, “Player Piano,” in chapter 28, while setting the scene of the dystopian tavern ‘The Dutch,’ where: “in almost every hand was the drink fashionable that season,
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Grand-stand baseball (graphic) - Pluto Water. America’s greatest physic for constipation, stomach and kidney, liver troubles. 15 (cents). 35 (cents). All drug stores. Ask your doctor. c.1895
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Advertised as "America's Laxative", Pluto Water used the slogan "When Nature Won't, PLUTO Will". The bottle and many advertisements featured an image of
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in the early 20th century. The water's laxative properties were from its high native content of mineral salts, with the active ingredient listed as
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writes about his mother giving him Pluto Water to help cure lockjaw in the first chapter of his autobiography, "Satchmo, My Life in New Orleans".
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Louis Armstrong in his dressing room, a bottle of Pluto Water at left, 1946
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salts. The sale of Pluto water was halted in 1971 when lithium became a
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A Hoosier Haunting: There’s Something in the Water That’s Very Strange
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Pluto Concentrated Water label, French Lick, Indiana, 1901
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that was also the source of the competing Sprudel Water.
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trademark
laxative
United States
sodium
magnesium sulfate
French Lick Springs
French Lick, Indiana
mineral springs
sodium
magnesium sulfate
lithium
controlled substance
Pluto
Charles Butterworth
Illicit
Michael Koryta
Sanford and Son
Whitman Mayo
Gregory Sierra
Louis Armstrong
Kurt Vonnegut
benedictine
"Pluto Spring", French Lick, 1903
Escape artist Harry Houdini (left) posing near Pluto Spring poster, c.1907
Harry Houdini
Newspaper advertisement, 1918
Louis Armstrong in his dressing room, a bottle of Pluto Water at left, 1946
"America's Greatest Laxative"
Grand-stand baseball (graphic) - Pluto Water. America’s greatest physic for constipation, stomach and kidney, liver troubles. 15 (cents). 35 (cents). All drug stores. Ask your doctor. c.1895

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