Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters bottles from the excavation of a privy at 1304 Howard Street
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Few sites from the second half of the nineteenth century in New Orleans do not contain examples of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, which was marketed as a remedy for any number of medical issues, but also consumed widely for its high alcohol content.
This file appears in: Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Excavation of a Privy at 1304 Howard/LaSalle
Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Excavation of a Privy at 1304 Howard/LaSalle
In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, many of the people who lived in the Melpomene neighborhood of Central City rented their residences with some addresses seeing rapid turnover. …