Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-10-12

organization to become identified with
Abilena, Ameri's natural cathartic
water.
| Mr.. Cooper first become interested
in the possibilities of Ablena three
years ago when he secured the adver-
| Using account of this company, and it
was during the years that he acted as
their advertising counsellor that he
saw in it the big possibilities that has
led him to perfect an alliance with
the Abilena company.
Mr. Cooper has been interested in
newspaper and advertising work since
he graduated from the state university
Of Iowa, having filled position as
feature writer for the Nebraska State
Journal of Lincoln for year before
becoming identified with the Lee Syn
dictate papers where he had charge OF
the local news of the Muscatine Jour
nal. Later he was connected with the
advertising department of the Daily
Times, of Davenport, before beginning
his work in the national advertising
field with Lord & Thomas. He was
the ST. Louis representative for this
organization and later was given the
added territory of Iowa and Nebraska.
international Proposition.
Abilena water has been on the mar
ket for the past eight years, having
been distributed through Parke Davis
& Co., of Detroit, Mich, for five years.
It's distribution not only extends
throughout the United States and Can
ada, but it is also enjoying splendid
business in great many of the for
eign countries among which Cuba and
the South American countries buy in
car load lots.
With the reorganization CT the abb
lena company, Mr.. Cooper has been
elected secretary and treasurer and
will have complete charge of the pub
licity work and of the dealers co-opera-
tive service department
The discovery of Abilena like many |
other discoveries which have proven
so valuable to mankind, was by acct
dent rather than by design. AS nature
had provided no living streams CT
springs on the half section tract now
the property of the Abilena company,
the farmer owner in 1898 drove a hun
dred foot we'll down through solid
rock in hopes of finding water for
domestic and stock purposes. He |
found not drinking water which he
sought, but wonderful cathartic wa
ter that today is known the world over
AT first it was called magic water"
SO marvellous and ideal were it's eff
fects. Analysed by scientists at the
university of Michigan and the uni
versity of Kansas and pronounced OF |
marked and unusual medicinal value,
1t was submitted to eminent physicians
throughout America. They used it in |;
their practice and their enthusiastic
verdict was unanimous, that nature
haa provided a perfect cathartic water.
Fifty wells have been bored since,
all through solid rock, and piercing
the precious vein of Abilena, the sup
ply is amply abundant and seems in
exhaustible. The water is now being
shipped in car loads to all the prin-
cipal centers Of the United States.
Remarkable Analysis.
The chemistry, or composition of
Ahilena, as revealed by exhaustive
analysis of such eminent chemists and
scientists as the late DR.. B. Prescott of
he University of Michigan, and DR.. E.
Il. s. Bailey of the university of Kansas
shows that Abilena contains more ca
hartic salts in perfect solution than is
ound in any other known water in
he world. Asia rule, the water from
mineral wells are so laden with salt.
ime and sulphur, as to form the major
TART of the solids held in solution, but ,,
Abilena is so nearly devoid ,
# these useless solids, less than one
yer cent, that it represents pure
deal cathartic water.
DR.. F. NJ Gier, who has been presi- {
lent of the Abilena company almost !
ince its conception, will continue to t
emain active as president of the new :
ompany, and the greater part of his |
ime will be taken up with work on
he physicians and the preparing OF
literature for the medical fraternity, $
low being recognized authority on +
athartic waters. DR.. Gier is grad {