If you are from Minneapolis, our Radium Water guarantees to cure you of
everything but your Swedish accent. If you are from St. Paul, we can
cure you of everything but your ingrown hatred for Minneapolis.
I will admit that these waters have quite a peculiar odor as they have
a proportion of Sulphur and other unknown ingredients, but visitors
from Kansas City, who are used to a Stock Yard breeze, take this
wonderful water home as a Perfume.
Approaching this City from the North, don’t get it confused with
Oolagah, Oklahoma, my original Birthplace, which is 12 miles to the
north, as both towns have Post Offices.
From the west, if you are afflicted and you are sure to be or you
wouldn’t have gone out there, why Claremore is just 1900 miles due east
of Mojarve, California, one of the few Towns which Los Angeles has
not voted into their Cafeteria. You come east till you reach an Oil
Station at a road crossing. This oil station is run by a man named St.
Clair. You will see a lot of men pitching Horseshoes. Well, that is the
Post Office of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the men are Millionaires pitching
Horseshoes for Oil Wells or for each other’s wives.
You should, by this description, have the place pretty well located in
your minds. Now, if you are living in the South and are afflicted with
a Cotton Crop under a Republican Administration, or with the Klu Klux,
or with the Hook Worm, we guarantee to rid you of either or all of
these in a course of 24 Baths.
Claremore is located just 905 miles north of Senator Pat Harrison’s
Mint Bed in Mississippi. In coming from the Gulf Country some have got
off the road and had to pass through Dallas, Texas, but have found out
their mistake and got back on the main road at Ft. Worth before losing
all they had. You easily can tell Ft. Worth. A fellow will be standing
down in front of the Drug Store making a speech.
Now, before reaching Claremore, you will pass, even though it’s in the
middle of the day, a place where you think it’s night and you won’t
know what is the matter. Well, that’s Muskogee, Oklahoma, and this
darkness is caused by the Color scheme of the population, so put on
your headlights and go on in. This Muskogee is really a parking space
for cars entering Claremore. Of course, if you want to drive on into
the Town of Claremore proper, its only 60 miles through the suburbs
from here.
The City is located on Cat Creek, and instead of having a lot of
Streets like most Towns and Cities, we have combined on one street. In
that way no Street is overlooked.
You might wonder how we discovered this Blarney Stone of Waters. In the
early days, us old timers there, always considered these Wells more
as an Odor than as a Cure. But one day a man come in there who had
been raised in Kansas and he had heard in a roundabout way of people
bathing, although he had never taken one. So, by mistake, he got into
this Radium Water.
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