Absolute Dating. During the AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, Dr. J. Hostetters Celebrated Stomachic Bitters was rationed to UNION SOLDIERS - perhaps dubiously - as a positive protective against the fatal maladies of the Southern swamps, and the poisonous tendency of the impure rivers and bayous and was enjoyed so universally that it found its way onto the BACK-BAR of every respectable SALOON in America, and beyond. No chips or cracks. As noted above, their first Almanac was issued in 1861 and was publishedonly in German and English, increasing its edition each year and reaching, in the year 1867, one million copies, whichwere disseminated in these two languages. 915 28th Street The business, however, contained the elementsof success, and under the consummate tact and resolution of its projectors annually increased, with rapidly augmentive revenues and proportionately enlarged facilities in every department. Obviously anticipating success, the doctor retired the same year as the bitter's launch and although initial sales were low by the late 1850s they were a commercial success. This was probably made in the 1870's in a transition period [] YOU MUST BE OF LEGAL DRINKING AGE TO ENTER THIS WEBSITE. Free shipping for many products! Upon the death of George W. Smith in 1884, his interest was purchased by David Hostetter, and the firm name changed to Hostetter and Company, with Milton L. Myers as a partner. and vegetable bitters (cinchona, gentian, etc.) The department employed, in manufacturing, packing and shipping, not less than 50 hands. Also, the bottle has never been open and the paper cap thing is apout 75% intact and the cork is still in the neck, but there is nothing in the bottle. The original Dr. J. Hostetters Celebrated Stomachic Bitters was formulated in the first half of the 19th century by native Pennsylvanian DR. JACOB HOSTETTER and became popular with his clientele. Obviously, his entrepreneurial spirit was unfaultered by the disastrous fire and in 1853 he partnered with George W. Smith, a boyhood friend, and established Hostetter & Smith to market and commercialise the bitters his father had formulated and prescribed the patients of his own practice.
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