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This is a 1954 magazine advertisement for Sexton Prof. Foster's Liquid Detergent Concentrate made by John Sexton & Co., Chicago, Illinois.
--- John Sexton & Company, established in Chicago, Illinois in 1883 by John Sexton, also known as Sexton Quality Foods, was a broad line national wholesale grocer that serviced the restaurant, hotel and institutional trade from regional warehouses and truck fleets located in major metropolitan areas of the United States. Sexton Quality Foods eventually became US Foodservice in 1997.
PharmacyThe neighborhood drugstore, featuring a soda fountain and lunch counter, be…