J. Delgado’s Medicinal Bowl of Red — 1893
by Paula Bosse
LADIES’ and GENTS’ CHILE PARLOR — 318 Main
I beg to call the attention of the public to the medicinal qualities of J. Delgado’s celebrated Chile con Carne. I can safely recommend it as a preventative of chills and fever, and sure cure for fresh colds. Chile is not only a wholesome food but is a blood purifier. Prepared for family orders. J. DELGADO, 318 Main.
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Chili-barking, nineteenth-century-style. From an 1893 issue of the Dallas Times Herald, which, at that time, appears to have been in need of a more careful typesetter.
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Thanks for finding and posting this advertisement for the (medicinal) chile parlor!
John Delgado, the proprietor, was my great-grandmother Cecilia Lively’s half-brother. He and his brother, Clemente Delgado (also in the food sector), and their families, and Cecilia and her children, all lived in Dallas in the 1890s and 1910s. John Delgado had an entrepreneurial bent, and went on to establish J Delgado Manufacturing, which expanded into canned foods. His company was eventually, in the late 1910s, acquired and run as a subsidiary of a manufacturing company owned by and named after the Tenison family of Dallas (into which one of Cecilia’s granddaughters later married). Cecilia had another half-sibling, Henrietta Edwards, who became the first American-born mother superior of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word in Galveston as Sister Mary Augustine in the late 1800s.
Cecilia moved with her adult children to Portland, OR, and then back to Sherman, TX, in the 1910s. Clemente lived out his life in Dallas. John and his family moved to Chicago after the Tenison acquisition of his company. Henrietta died (cancer) a couple of years before the great 1900 hurricane demolished the sisters’ orphanage and convent in Galveston.
Though I’ve learned much of Cecilia and her half-siblings’ lives and descendants, I know little of their lives or ancestry before the Civil War … I would be delighted to hear of any leads or links that lead back in time.
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Thanks for this, Christian!
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