[Bottle-Shaped Advertisement ]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: An advertiement for the Gulf Texas and Western Railroad in the shape of a bottle of mineral water. The GTW (sometimes referred to by locals as "Get your Ticket and Walk") was built from Seymour through Olney and Jacksboro to Mineral wells around 1912. The line joined the Weatherford, Mineral wells and Northwestern Railroad some 12 miles north of Mineral Wells and operated over the WMW&NW tracks through Mineral Wells, Weatherford, Ft. Worth and on to Dallas. A round trip from Seymour to Dallas was made daily by a gasoline powered all-passenger motor car. The reverse side of the advertisement indicates building of the railroad was underwritten by Beetham and Sons.
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[Bottle-Shaped Map of Attractions]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: A bottle-shaped Flyer showing the attractions and services in Mineral Wells. Evidently, this is the interior of a flyer. See "Bottle-Shaped Mineral Water Ad" for the cover. All hotels, boarding houses, wells, and activities are listed, including fox hunting. See also [Bottle-Shaped Romantic Mineral Water Ad].
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[Bottle-Shaped Mineral Water Ad]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Picture of a mineral water advertisement. Probably the cover of a flyer. This is an example of the exaggerated claims made about mineral water. It advertises a mixed water bottled in Mineral Wells apparently marketed as "Donkaione." For the (probable) interior of the flyer see [Bottle-Shaped Map of Attractions]. See also [Bottle-Shaped Romantic Mineral Water Ad].
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[Bottle-Shaped Romantic Mineral Water Ad]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: The interior of a bottle-shaped ad for mineral water. It claims romantic properties for the water. See also [Bottle-Shaped Mineral Water Ad] and [Bottle-Shaped Map of Attractions].
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[Bottle-shaped Souvenir Booklet]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Two pages of a souvenir booklet touting the benefits of Mineral Wells, Texas. The shape suggests a bottle of mineral water. There are other pages of this booklet elsewhere in this collection. At some time in the future, perhaps they could be placed together in a file.
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"Crazy" Water Crystals Plant
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: "Crazy" Water Crystals Plant, built in 1919. In the plant, mineral water was boiled down until only the mineral crystals were left. When dissolved in water, the crystals became an early version of "instant food." Through radio advertising in the 1930s over the Texas Quality Network direct from the lobby of the Crazy Hotel, a market for the "Crazy Water Crystals" was developed all over the world. This picture of the plant plant has been computer enhanced.
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[Dismuke's Famous Mineral Crystals Label]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: One of the by-products of the mineral water which made Mineral Wells famous was the mineral crystals which were shipped all over the world. Purchasers could disolve the crystals in tap water and reportedly receive the same benefits from the reconstituted water as from the well water. The first "instant" food? The Famous Water Company and the Famous Crystal Company were founded by Ed Dismukes, a druggist from Waco who came to Mineral Wells for his health. Under different ownership, the Famous Water Company is still in operation, the only mineral water company in Mineral Wells at this time.
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The First Well Was Dug Here in 1877
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of a cartoon. "1880" is written in ink at bottom of the photo evidently in correction of the cartoon. Lynch arrived in what would later be Mineral Wells in 1877. His first well, dug to 41 feet in 1878, was dry. The second well, drilled to a deeper depth, in 1880 yielded the mineral water after which Mineral Wells was later named. See also "Opening of the First Season at Mineral Wells" and "Mr. Lynch on His Way to Discover Mineral Wells."
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The Health Resort Quarterly, 01 of 04, Cover
Date: 1915-10
Creator: unknown
Description: The cover of The Health Resort Quarterly, October 1915, published by the Commercial Club of Mineral Wells, Texas. The wreath on the cover frames a ladies arm and hand holding a glass of (mineral) water with captions "ANALYSIS HAS PROVED IT TO HAVE NO EQUAL" above and "FAMED THE WORLD OVER" below, refering to the mineral water from the local wells. Colophon at bottom, "Index Print [symbol] Mineral Wells."
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KORC 1140 On Your Dial
Date: 1946
Creator: unknown
Description: KORC - KBS Microphne - 1140 on your dial. The radio station was founded and owned by Mr. Achilles Corcanges and aired its first broadcast on December 5, 1946. Radio station KMWT-FM began broadcasting from Mineral Wells in 1970. In 1983 Both stations' call letters were changed; to KJAS-AM and to KYXS-FM. Mineral Wells radio history dates back to the 1930s when Mr. Hal Co9llins, owner of the Crazy Hotel, began sponsoring broadcasts originating in the hotel lobby. The broadcasts were aired nationwide, at noon daily, over the Texas Quailty Network advertising Crazy Water Crystals. Many show business luminaries appeared on the show; Mary Martin of Weatherford got her singing/acting career start here.
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