Excerpt from Hostetter's United States Almanac, 1904: For Merchants, Mechanics, Miners, Farmers, Planters, and General Family Use In brief, the uses of this old-time fa yorito family medicine are many and manifold. Its ingredients are pure drugs, carefully selected in the best markets of the world, and most thor oughly and skilfully compounded after a formula which has stood the test of many years. It has been weighed in the balance by millions of people in every nook and corner of the World, and has never been found wanting. Prop erly used, it will never do harm, but will always do good. Use it with good sense and discretion, and you will soon cleave to it as an old friend. Other remedies come and go according to the fashion and notion of the day, but the permanent reputation of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters abides, and the sphere of its in uence is widely extending as as the years roll. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."