Originally Posted By: Chuck H
Lots of walnuts and cheese. But that 2 barrels of mercury than American Express shipped is interesting. I wonder where that is today? Probably used in a gold mine sluse box in Alaska, CA or CO or some such place.


There was probably more than one use for mercury in the mining towns. Penicillin wasn't discovered until 1928. For sveral centuries before the advent of the age of antibiotics, mercury was used for medical tratments.........specifically for syphilis.