Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

Crossing the Styx in marketing, as
evidenced in an advertisement for
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets in the
Minneapolis Journal, January 27, 1912,
One does not have to cross the Styx
To reach the sultry nether;
Who's [sic] liver and whose stomach mix
Irascibly together
From the accompanying text,
Chapter 32 -- To Cross the Styx
The victim of dyspepsia is an abject slave to his stomach. He has to rigidly and continually
deny his palate the gustatory relishes gastrointestinal turmoil, often amounting to severe
suffering, follows his innocent and natural indulgence.
If swallowing any reasonable quantity of properly cooked and well masticated food, such as
others eat without discomfort, is followed by a feeling of heaviness, or a load, where it lies by
gaseous distension or a bloated condition of the stomach, or oppression about the heart by
watery, sour or windy risings by distress, nervousness, dizziness, nausea, headache. Inability
to sleep rest fully or any other symptom of deficient, defective or disordered digestion you
should procure and take Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets, the best medicine to remedy all functional
wrongs of the stomach.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are for sale at all drug stores at 50 cents a box.
"Haskell's Account of the Battle of Gettysburg," The Harvard Classics (1909-1914), Charles W.
Eliot, Ed., provides us a well-worded equestrian eulogy,
Dick deserves well of his country, and one day should have a horse-monument. If there be “ut
sapientibus placit,” and equine elysium, I will send to Charon the brass coin, the fee for Dick’s
passage over, and on the other side of the Styx in those shadowy clover-fields he may nibble
blossoms forever.
As a news item, "Prophets Initiate Fifty Candidates," Washington Times, May 20, 1914, reports,
Omitting the usual perils of the passage of the River Styx, more than 500 members of the
Kallipolis Grotto, No. 15, Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm, met in the
ballroom of the New Willard last night and initiated fifty candidates, had a real minstrel show
and general jollification.
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