FROM 1900, AN AD FOR...LITHIA WATER....Between the 1880s and World War I, the consumption of bottled lithia mineral water was popular, with all kinds of health claims attached to it starting with a misguided understanding of gout. One of the first commercially sold lithia waters in the United States was bottled at Lithia Springs, Georgia, in 1888. During this era, there was such a demand for lithia water that there was a proliferation of bottled lithia water products. However, only a few were natural lithia spring waters. Most of the bottled lithia water brands added lithium bicarbonate to spring water and called it lithia water. With the start of World War I and the formation of the new US government food safety agency, mineral water bottlers were under scrutiny. The new agency posted large fines against mineral water bottlers for mislabeled, misrepresented and adulterated products. These government actions and their publicity, along with public works that made clean tap water readily accessible, caused the American public to lose confidence and interest in bottled mineral water. READ MORE AT Lithia water - Wikipedia
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Of course, this was back in the days when Coca Cola contained real cocaine. :-) You could put any old thing in a bottle, make false claims, and sell it.
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