Three days before Christmas in the waning days of 1890, well-known Presidio County rancher and businessman John B. Davis scratched out a short note and mailed it to the general store he did business with.
This is what he wrote that distant December 22:
Humpries & Co.
Please to send me
One 1 – Bottle of goo…
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