***Sorry Sold***Antique Embossed Ypsilanti Mich MI Mineral Water Salts Glass Bottle T C Owen

Antique Embossed Ypsilanti Mich MI Mineral Water Salts Glass Bottle T C Owen Size: 5 7/8 inches tall and 2 1/4 inches in diameter. Marked "Ypsilanti Mineral Water Salts T.C.Owen Ypsilanti Mich". Original stopper in Place, apparently unused. Three Tiny chips on upper rim. ! Tubal Cain Owen and Anna (Stowe Foote) Owen. The Owens lived in a now-vanished house near the current day Roosevelt School building on EMU, where Tubal also had his magical and very profitable well.After T. C. Owen had been manufacturing Toilet Soap from his Mineral Water for over a year, and the Commercial job department had printed over a hundred thousand wrappers for him, the Ypsilantian suddenly, and without giving its readers the least warning, one day announced that Mr. Owen had begun to manufacture soap. "The September ’88 number of the Normal News, and each of the six succeeding issues, announced in the advertising columns that Mr. Owen had chanced the name of his Mineral water and products to “Atlantis,” instead of “Ypsilanti.” Yesterday, our contemporary tried to palm that fact off on an unsuspecting public as fresh news. "It is expected that late next fall, or at least early in the winter, the Ypsilantian will state that Mr. Owen has been dealing in ice for the past summer. The souvenir program also mentioned T. C. Owen’s famed mineral water well, saying “[T]his is one of the most unique enterprises of Ypsilanti, and if half that is currently reported as to the marvelous cures that have been made by drinking this famous water is true, it is certainly one if the most valuable adjuncts to the city.” Owen claimed that his miraculous water could even cure cancer—at least, he did until the 1906 Pure Foods Act, after which he toned down his advertising. Tragically, his daughter Abba and son Eber both died of cancer. “After T. C. Owen had been manufacturing Toilet Soap from his Mineral Water for over a year, and the Commercial job department had printed over a hundred thousand wrappers for him, the Ypsilantian suddenly, and without giving its readers the least warning, one day announced that Mr. Owen had begun to manufacture soap. The paper continued, “The September ’88 number of the Normal News, and each of the six succeeding issues, announced in the advertising columns that Mr. Owen had changed the name of his Mineral water and products to “Atlantis,” instead of “Ypsilanti.” Yesterday, our contemporary tried to palm that fact off on an unsuspecting public as fresh news . . . [s]uch enterprise on the part of our brother news-gatherer is remarkable!” T.C. Owen who had once sold mineral water from wells beneath what would become Roosevelt High School.