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Taken from an English Newspaper   1872.

PITT’S AMERICAN EYE SNUFF   cures

Deafness, Stammering, Stuttering, Snoring,

Headache, Toothache, Neuralgia, Tic-Doloreux,

Dimness of sight, Involuntary Blushing, Nervousness,

 Fits, and Noises in the Head.

Boxes, post free, Fifteen Stamps.    Address-

The Manager, Steam Snuff Mills, Birmingham.

I think this is Birmingham, England, UK   as this is from an English newspaper.

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Wow at that day in age people must had thought it was pretty much a cure all.

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I love that noises in the head is listed as a condition to be cured by snuff. The noises might disappear but it doesn’t seem to affect that little voice that says “more, more”

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I remember as a young kid in the glove box of our vehicles was always a small cloth bag of ground tobacco that the folks would wipe it on the inside of the Windows. Supposedly kept them from fogging up.