You Can Shoot Alligators and Eat Oranges -- September 10, 2014

Or you can eat alligators and shoot oranges. 

This ad, from Railway Agent, February 1899, describes the wonders of the Mexican Central Railway, a US-owned line from Mexico City to Ciudad Juárez.  The Mexican government nationalized it in 1906-1909.    Now it is part of Kansas City Southern de México.