Posted 3 years ago
crewnail
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Must be rare because I haven't been able to find another example of one. From what I've learned it is from the late 1890's, the Harris and Dean pharmacy wasn't in business very long and possibly was destroyed in a fire or tornado. I went to Waco and talked to a couple historians that weren't able to help much. It was located on the corner of 4th and Austin where I did see that there is not a building anymore. If it were from the Morrison's corner drug store it would definitely be more desired due to the fact that it is where Dr Pepper was invented.
I once found one of these though it was much cooler and worth some money. This one is one of the plainer ones I have seen, and is generally known as a feeder bottle, hence the tilt.
crewnail, Cool. :-)
I don't know if you saw this Google Books reference, but it seems to confirm that a fire destroyed the Harris and Dean Pharmacy (I touched up the Google Translate OCR conversion a bit, but it probably isn't perfect):
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The Pharmaceutical Era, Volume 18
Front Cover
D. O. Haynes & Company, 1897 - Drugs
August 26 1897 [Page] 281 NEWS DEPARTMENT
BUSINESS RECORD We desire to make this a complete record of all new firms all changes in firms deaths fires and assignments which occur among houses connected with the drug trade in the United States Our readers will confer a favor by reporting promptly such items from their respective localities We exercise due care to insure the authenticity of items here recorded but they are obtained from such a variety of sources that their absolute correctness cannot be guaranteed Address THE PHARMACEUTICAL ERA Box 1483 New York
TEXAS Dallas Palace Drug Company Murphy & Main burned out Waco Palace Drug Store 4th and Austin Harris & Dean proprietors succeeded by PH Dean
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PhilDMorris, Thank you for that explanation of the tilted bottle neck.
Sorry, I should have written "Harris and Dean Palace Drug Store."
Here's another Google Books reference to P.H. Dean:
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TEXAS PHARMACISTS MEET The Texas Pharmaceutical Association held its meeting at San Antonio May 17 18 and 19 The sessions were most interesting and the attendance large The proceedings of the first day were mostly of a character and included the president's annual and the reading of several prize essays The latter referred to a committee on award of prizes who its decisions the next morning as follows First prize an herb case donated by Allaire Woodward & Co Peoria Ill to Keene R Forston whose essay was entitled What Shall We Do with Precipitates Found in Our Fluid Extracts and Tinctures second prize 10 worth of pharmaceuticals etc donated by Frederick Stearns & Co Detroit to William R Neville whose essay bore the caption The Ideal Relations Between Proprietor and Apprentice Mr Neville also secured the third prize a case of mineral water donated by the proprietors for his essay What Preparations Should Retail Druggists Make What Preparations Can They Profitably Manufacture The committee to which the president's address had been referred reported and the address was ordered spread upon the journal The committee also recommended that a memorial page in the annual proceedings be set aside to contain the resolutions eulogistic of the late Mrs H M Cunningham of Houston The Committee on Legislation reported and recommended the omission from the statute books of section 2 of the statute in relation to the practice of pharmacy in the State and fixing the penalty for violations It recommended also the employment of an attorney to draft a statute under the direction of the secretary that would be acceptable to the association and present it for adoption by the Legislature The report was adopted The election of officers resulted as follows Edward Dreiss San Antonio president JW Graham Austin and PH Dean Waco vice presidents RH Walker Gonzales secretary and treasurer Fred W Cook Jr San Antonio trustee The following Executive Committee was selected Edward Dreiss EG Eberle JW Graham RN McNight and RH Walker Local secretary RN McNight Committee on Notes and Queries J Pfeiffer Milton Hickok and WB Morrison Committee on Medical Conference George Heyer PH Dean JF Schmidt and H Behrens Waco was chosen as the place for holding the next meeting the date for the same being left with the Executive Committee.
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And this is a bit confusing, because it's about a 1953 tornado, but it makes reference to the Palace Drug Store (the picture shows a building with the name "CUT RATE DRUGS"):
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A pair of photos shows two businesses, Grayson’s clothing store at 701 Austin Ave. and a drugstore on the downtown square (possibly the Palace Drug Store), looking as though bombs had been detonated inside the buildings, blowing their contents into the street.
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https://wacotrib.com/waco_today_magazine/captured-in-color-waco-man-discovers-unseen-photos-of-deadly-1953-tornado/article_8a2c505d-45bf-5214-939d-6addd7bf9ae4.html
Here's a 1931 picture of the interior of a store called the Palace Drug Store, but it might not be the same business (it seems the picture came from the Collingsworth County Museum):
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth207472/
Thanks for the research and additional information, I have a screenshot of a business directory showing the pharmacy in the 1890's. I can see about adding it, I'm kinda new at the Collectors weekly thing and not technically savvy.
crewnail, You're welcome. :-)
You have a picture of the storefront from the 1890s? That would be very cool if you added it to your post.
FYI, Collectors Weekly Show & Tell software tends to be a bit temperamental about image sources, particularly smart phones and tablets, and orient images from those incorrectly (e.g., sideways).
From what I've gathered recently, it seems that a lot of the problem images have an aspect ratio of width/height: 1.33:
https://toolstud.io/photo/megapixel.php?compare=video&calculate=uncompressed&width=2880&height=2160
If your image orients incorrectly on CW S&T, edit a copy, and trim it a bit to make the long sides a bit shorter. Then edit your post, and replace the incorrectly oriented one with the trimmed copy.