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unusual facts about Carr Collins, Sr.


Mineral Wells, Texas

Salts from the mineral springs were marketed by Carr Collins, Sr. as Crazy Crystals in the 1930s as having curative powers, but their sale was then suppressed by the Food and Drug Administration.


Carr Collins, Sr.

Sales reputedly reached $3 million a year, but then the Food and Drug Administration declared the product (and numerous similar products) fraudulent.

He endowed the Texas Institute of Letters with a $1,000 annual award for the author of the best book about Texas, beginning in 1946.


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