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Dr. Henley’s Royal Palm Gin - Part 2 of a Series Oregon Trail Bottles

Early Druggists of Jasper County, Iowa - Monroe A Birthday Celebration for the Ages - Privy Digging in Baltimore Marvelous Drug Store Museum on the Plains of Kansas Billy Faust and a Banana Full of Whiskey On the Trail of the Elusive L.R. Comstock, again and so much more...

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Table of Contents FOHBC Officer Listing 2012-14 2 On the Trail of the Elusive L.R. 2014 Baltimore Antique Bottle Show Comstock, again...

President’s Message .................... 3 by Tod von Mechow.............................. 18 by Jim Bender ..............................50 Shards of Wisdom ....................... 4 Marvelous Drug Store Museum on the Plains in Kansas

by Jack Fincham .................................. 24 FOHBC News From and For Our Members ....................... 6 Billy Foust and a Banana Full of Whiskey Bottles along the Oregon Trail

by Wayne Herring ......................... 8 by Jack Sullivan ................................... 30

A Birthday Celebration for the Ages: Privy Digging in Baltimore

by Mike Cianciosie.......................54

Lexington National Latest News .................................... 16

Membership Application ...........72

Classified Ads & Ad Rate Info ..64

Membership Directory ..............66 Dr. Henley’s Royal Early Druggists of Jasper Palm Gin Part 2 FOHBC Show-Biz County, Iowa - Monroe

by Stephen Hubbell

by Mark Wiseman ....................... 12 and Eric McGuire ................................38 Show Calendar Listings .............67

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FOHBC Officers 2012-2014 President: Ferdinand Meyer V, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: (713) 222-7979; e-mail: fmeyer@fmgdesign.com First Vice-President: Bob Ferraro, 515 Northridge Dr, Boulder City, NV 89005; phone: (702) 293-3114; e-mail: mayorferraro@aol.com.

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President’s Message Ferdinand Meyer V

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FMG Design, Inc. 101 Crawford Street Studio 1A Houston, Texas 77002 ferdinand@peachridgeglass.com

pring finally Sprung.

What aand winter! is early April at It ishas early Sunday morning I sitIthere reflecting when I write this report and I have already been in storms in TimoleonÕs Diner in quaint Keene, New Hampshire while California, Kentucky and Texas this week and I see some areas drinking some coffee to warm me up (it is 45 degrees outside, will be getting tornadoes and snow this weekend. Well maybe it chilly for a Texan). The Yankee Bottle Show starts here shortly should be April showers and snow bring May Flowers.

and will be a fun conclusion to a long weekend of bottle events that started out awith a gathering at Federation members Boy, did I have bottle show experience that I would like toMark and Annie VuonoÕs in full Stamford, Connecticut on Friday mention.

I will have the story and pictures posted on the and includedweb the Heckler Hayfield event in to WoodFOHBC site but IColumbus just wantedDay to say congratulations stock Connecticut yesterday.

I am thinking the SanValley, Luis Obispo Bottle Society.

I have always heardthat that this wasMorro the exact spot, twobottle years agoputtoday, thatclub, the was great the Bay, California show, on by the an experience.

Webb Tartaglia, who has forty years of show Feldmann story that I retell in this issue of Bottles and Extras, experience, as show chairman, orchestrates quaint show,John got its wings.

I hope you enjoy the articlethis and pictures. in the shadow of Morro Rock.

Unfortunately, Morro Bay is and Sheila are wonderful people that represent the foundation aand little out of the way for me, so I kind of set it aside and just cornerstone of our great hobby. wished I could go each year.

Well since I was finally ableEXPO to go, in though What a whirlwind of events our great late Elizabeth had to stay back and hold down the fort.

July in Reno, Nevada. Every time I think of this event, I am reminded of how grateful I am, and we all should be, of Marty Besides seeing great bottles and displays at the show and meeting Hall,many Richard Siri, the Reno Bottle Club with bottle collecting friends, I was alsoand ablethe to legions attend of helpers that pulled with off this mega event.and Marty reported the dealer cook-out steaks, sausage wineeven tasting after a strong that demonstrates again, thatthis our the firstfinancial afternoonsuccess of the show.

Webb Tartagliayet also puts on organization is getting stronger and marching forward. traditional event.

What a man and model for everything rightThe 2013 FOHBC intoManchester, New Hampshire about our hobby.National Side trips Monterey, Carmel, and Paso next Robles kept the fun at high level with more bottle year is progressing smoothly with a majority experiences, of the tables wine tastings sight seeing. AllKentucky bottle shows an already beingand sold.

Lexington, willshould be ourbelocation experience and this one is a model of excellence.

My hat is for the 2014 National, so make your plans here, too. Youoff. can get information for both events by visiting our website, Monitoring e-mails week, Iour see Conventions that Steve Libbey, president FOHBC.org.

Tom this Phillips, Director, was of the Wisconsin Antique Bottle and Advertising Club is even in the southeast this week looking at venues for the 2015 orchestrating a club dig. They will be visiting a 1870s hotel or National. It was not too long ago that we were much more spring water house and have a professional camera man coming short-sighted.

Nowthewith this advancethey planning and public along to video tape event.

Hopefully will have a great announcements, can astake claimway on atodate thatcreate will help dig and adventure.we What nice,our creative again, an other showand chairmen decide when to hold their events. As an experience memories. aside, did you know that there were nine bottle shows this weekend, including one across the pond?

Ourmany hobby is so The Lexington National is progressing nicely and of us are looking forward to the first three days of August.

I spend strong. I see the glimmer of change even with our shows. LetÕs apromote lot of time in and Lexington for hobby. businessBring and Ipeople have totosay, more grow our thethis shows. is a great city with history, horses and distilling.

Having our Bottles, glass and positive change are contagious.

Federation event here will be a real treat as we will be downtown at the Lexington Center which is connected to up ourwhich host Hyatt Federation membership is also drastically is excit-

Regency If you haven’t reserved show passdrive ing. WeHotel. will be announcing a majoryour newtable, membership orlater banquet it soon so we can be better planned. this ticket, monthplease that do uses a 2,000-member target.

We are The ‘Run for the Roses’ bottle competition event, and Glass nearing 1,200 members now. So if you are a member, stay with Works ‘Thoroughbred will also anchor us, ifAuctions, youÕre are undecided,Auction’, please join!

There are our so many 2014 Federation show.

This is in addition to great seminars, bottle is exciting things planned. Our magazine, Bottles and Extras, displays and our keynote address at the banquet by ‘Mr. Bourbon’; undergoing a major face lift, we have a new web site, by the Michael R. Veach, who will welcome the Banquet attendees to time you read this, we will be 1,000 members plus on our Kentucky Bourbon country and speak on Kentucky Bourbon FOHBC facebook page, curator the FOHBC Museum history.

Mr. Veach is associate of SpecialVirtual Collections at the is moving forward (look for a major announcement soon) and we Filson Historical Society. He is a bourbon historian and a member have just sent our first digital newsletter to a large audience of the Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame. He will be conducting a of people. Theevent new along Federation, your FOHBC. book-signing with other Kentucky Bourbon authors on Weduring need new bloodI am andsopersons Sunday the show. excited!to carry the torch. I will be

reaching out to some of our membership for pictures of your

With all that we are doing for Lexington, are also bottles, assistance on the web site, we articles and stories for progressing mightily with the 2015 National Antique Bottles and Extras, the web site, the newsletter andBottle help on the Show in Chattanooga, Tennessee Federation Virtual Museum. If you would thanks like toprimarily volunteer,toin any area, it Conventions Director, Phillips.

The Chattanooga Marriott would be very muchTom welcomed and appreciated.

Downtown will be the host hotel and is connected to the You will also notice a new section in the front of Bottles and Chattanooga Convention Center where the event will be held.

Extras called Letters to the Editor. I am not sure why this was The banquet, “The Battle of Tennessee’ bottle competition event, not thereauction, in someand form or anothermeetings before but seminars, membership willwe bereally held atwant the to hear your stories and ideas and how we can do things better.

Marriott. Jack Hewitt and John Joiner are serving as show coYou can send an e-mail, write hard a letter or call any2015 board chairpersons and have been working to make this our member, including myself at any time.will Ourbecontact information ‘swan song’.

Contracts and information available online is intothis onand the hard web copies site. will be available prior themagazine Lexingtonand show August 1st,January/February at this years National there and are rumors In the 2013show. issueAlso, of Bottles Extras,ofwe a will greatbe and historica California being host to our section first National starting two-page city Regional Overview where Antique Bottle Show Convention in 2016! we will highlight incoming information from the four regions

that make up the Federation (northeast, southern, midwest and

April 1st hasIf come and gone.

Thisplease was the date for western). you have material forward toany your Regional Federation member to decide if they wanted to join the Director. If you visit the web site or received our newsletter, Federation Board in either an open position or challenged you will see that Regional News is now appearing in a different position. We are happy to report that we have a great slate of and more refreshing format in venues too.ideas and board members with a number of these new faces.

New We are only as strong as our weakest link. thisand expresdirections are important. Our board represents ourI use hobby sion often in business and in my general conversations with our membership and is the face of the future of bottle collecting. people. Keep an new openclubs mind, be joined positive, give Membership is up, have andand ourtry pathtoishelp, paved. constructive criticism andnews moveand forward. andVirtual someone Look forward to some great progressSmile with the Museum, digital options resurrection of Life will smile backmembership to you. Listen and and youthe will hear a story.

Step Membership, one decide. report will be and givenfind at the forward andshould tell a story.

LookAatfull your collection that Lexington Membership Meeting. missing bottle or link. This is what it is all about. Our best asset

is all of our great members.

We hope this issue of Bottles and Extras.

Each issues I amyou alsolike looking forward to the great 49er Bottle Show in seems to get better and better with more articles being submitted Old Town Auburn, California in December. We usually go to by our members. Please, tell us your story or about your collection, the Festival of Lights parade each year after the show. We love tell us about your digs or finds and get us any information that it because theto horses, dogs,bottle goats, trucks you would like share. Every haspeople a story. and We can put itallin are adorned with lights for Christmas.

Remember, a show the magazine, on our web site and even post it on the Federationis so much better you makeisitpower an experience. facebook page.ifInformation and we canWhile deliver.you are at a

show, visit a collection, go to a museum, have dinner with a

bottle go on aby digsaying, etc. There are enjoy so many you I’ll closefriend, this message be safe, yourthings bottles andcan glass, withconnected your bottlewith friends be hobby. thankfulMake that we all do tobestay ourand great it are a multipart of the greatest hobby ever. dimensional experience.

Happy autumn and winter.

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Bottles and extras nothing like the Western R, but there are a few that are awful close. In fact, two of those R’s are from Connecticut bottles from glass works that closed their doors in the early 1870s. One is from a Baltimore glass house that operated for two years, 1878-1880.

Them Thar’ Western R’s You folks out East might a heard or ya might not a heard about a little fellar we out here call our beloved Western R Rumor has it that you can identify a Western-made bottle by these little curved R’s, especially to the San Francisco & Pacific Glass Works, (SFPW). This glass house came into being in 1876 when the West’s only two glass works, the Pacific Glass Works, (PGW), and the San Francisco Glass Works, (SFGW), merged into one.

It is after this merger that our Western R comes along and you can see the first R in that Western line up isn’t like the others.

It’s embossed on a San Francisco Glass Works Soda bottle from the late 1860s. That means there was already a mold maker in California who wasn’t making no curved R. So where then did this curved R come from? There sure are a lot of curved R’s on Eastern-made bottles once you start looking. Quite a few matter of fact.

Now some are certainly just the script used at the time and

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Well now, these curved R’s are hopping all over the place! We have a mold maker in Connecticut using curved R’s, a guy in Baltimore and then a fellar out West all around the same time.The mold maker out west probably wasn’t some honey dipper who just decided to make bottle molds one day, so he likely had some experience, or he could have been someone employed out there already in a different occupation which required the knowledge of how to work metal. He also could have migrated out west from the East. As the glass houses in Connecticut closed down he would have worked his way down to the mid-Atlantic, possibly working there or not finding work, moving on somewhere else, somewhere new?

Now again there are a lot different curved R’s out here, in the Western made glass as well as the East, so I’m not drawing any conclusions, but I leave to you speculate, if you wish. Did an unemployed mold maker with a big opportunity out West leave his signature behind, in a pesky little curved R?

Some Straps that will leave you strapped!

There have always been a few nice embossed strap side flasks out there. Treasured for their local history, everyone wants that flask from the liquor dealer down the street, or the honest red-nosed hometown judge who sold whiskey when he wasn’t locking up drunks!

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Bottle extraordinaire Matthew Levanti will assist the Editor with Shards of Wisdom, so send in your news or bottle updates to: Matthew T. Levanti, 5930 Juarez Rd. Placerville, Ca, 95667 m.tigue-levanti@hotmail.com

While some collectors have a lot to choose from locally, there are certainly areas where a marked merchant flask might be one of the few local bottles available. Add to that the scarcity of these flasks, which were produced in small numbers and used by folks who couldn’t keep a tight grip on the bottle by the time it was getting close to empty and you end up with some pretty desirable and expensive bottles.

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I remember an amber strap side flask from New London, Conn., (where I was born and raised), which came out of Charlie Gardner’s collection and was sold a few years back by Heckler’s, going for a little over $400.00. I thought to myself at the time that was quite a bit for just an old strap side, but boy, do I wish I was the one who spent it now!

Prices in my opinion seem to be going up and these bottles that were just not old or historically significant enough are coming into their own. While these flasks have of course always been important and a wonderful connection with local history, I do not believe the monetary value has ever been so high. Just in January these three amber flasks all sold for over $1,000 on e-Bay, and I bet the lucky winning bidders were happy to have them at. It might be time to go through those boxes in the garage and pull out those embossed Straps, you never know what treasure you might have.

South Carolina Dispensary M. Keating – Wholesale Liquors – Council Bluffs (Iowa) Geo. L. Miller – Wholesale - Liquor Dealer - Junction City, Kansas

America’s first bottle collection!

This is some old news but I just dug it up and found it pretty interesting. As it was 10 years ago, now it might be a refreshing recap or if you hadn’t heard then its good old news now!

During the archeological excavations at Jamestown, Va., in the summer of 2004, a brick-lined wine cellar still holding 10 intact bottles and as many as 20 more broken bottles from the late 17th century was discovered. It’s believed the now long gone building that occupied the site dated to the fort period and likely belonged to a wealthy family based on the cellar and other artifacts found such as leaded window glass.

One of the globular onion-shaped bottles had an applied seal with the initials “F.N.”, which archeologists believe might have been the property of the then governor of Jamestown, Francis Nicholson. Nicholson moved the capital of Virginia to Williamsburg around this time which led to the eventual decline and abandoning of Jamestown. It has been speculated that the bottles were given as a gift to whomever lived in the structure with the wine cellar as it was not Nicholson’s residence. This find is the oldest wine cellar known in America and I have a suspicion evidence of the first bottle collector, too!

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don’t really know for sure when I started collecting old bottles or why. I guess it was the stories in National Geographic magazines about archaeological discoveries that fascinated me.

I know it was finding a number of old jars and bottles in my grandmother’s fruit room that started me collecting.

Interesting names, colors, sizes and shapes intrigued me. It wasn’t long before I went to my great aunts’ houses and their next door neighbors’ houses and my collection grew.

By the time I was 11 or so, I would do yard work for several elderly ladies in my neighborhood. I soon asked them about their fruit rooms and it wasn’t long before I took bottles and jars in trade for my work. If a jar I wanted still had food in it, they would tape a “Save for Wayne” note on it and I would get the jar after it was empty.

Of course, back then I had no way of knowing which jars and bottles were common and today I have only a couple of those jars in my collection. The two jars I still

have in my collection from those days is a very crude Mason patent CFJ November 30th, 1858 half-gallon and a quart cornflower blue Kerr Self Sealing Mason, both common. The 1858 jar is also the first jar I found in the first farm dump I discovered on my own about 1965.

About 1961, as a seventh grader, my social studies teacher Keith Jensen and physical education teacher Bill Blackburn were digging bottles from old dumps. I would often find my way to their houses and look at the bottles and listen to their stories of digging escapades.

Boy, did it sound like fun!

Between my eighth and ninth grade years, after prob-

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ably pestering them to the point of going crazy, I finally convinced them to take me digging. If I wasn’t hooked on collecting by then, the digging trip sealed the deal.

In those days, people were digging their bottles in dumps or finding them in or under old buildings. Some were found in local second-hand stores. To find places to dig, I would often talk to old timers in the community who remembered where some old dumps were located.

There were small dumps all over the mid Willamette Valley. I dug in Molalla, Mt. Angel, Oregon City, McMinnville, Dayton, Lafayette, Hubbard, Salem as well as in Aurora. Some of them had been dug or

The legendary Unkweed Remedy Rheumatic Cure bottle, anonymous collection

partially dug. I just went deeper and hit the edges harder. The dump in Aurora had special challenges. It was in an old mill race and water was present yeararound.

By this time, I was dating my future wife and her father operated an excavation company. During the driest

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driest part of the year, I would borrow his portable trash pump with an 18-foot suction line and 50 feet of fire hose to help drain the water into an adjacent farmer’s field. Even then, we were digging in stinking, rusty old water, reaching as far as we could to rake the bottom of the dump.

pocket of Warner’s Safe Cures and was able to keep a nice yellow amber Safe Rheumatic Cure. Most dumps I dig were from the 1890s to about 1910. It was hard to find older stuff since Oregon was not heavily populated. Today, it has over 96,000 square miles and less than 4 million people.

Occasionally, my digging partner, Steve Radosavich, or I would pull up part of a plank and bottles with air trapped inside would come bobbing to the surface. I was slapped in the face by more than one bottle during our digging there.

There was great broken stuff in this dump and some good local bottles, too. The nicest part was that the bottles cleaned up to mint condition. On two different weekends, I dug the large size AvanHoboken case gins and both just sparkle.

I have dug some rare local bottles, but perhaps my favorite is a pint size Fleckenstein & Mayer large slug plate whiskey from Portland. It came from an outhouse in Dayton, my home for the last 40 years. It was protected from breakage by a crock lid and cleaned to mint condition.

One of the McMinnville dumps was going to be built on so the owner opened it up with a cat(erpillar) and we would dig 16 hours a day on weekends for about six weeks. He had a time frame he had to follow so we made the most of those weekends until it was covered with gravel and compacted. Today, a housing project is on that site.

Good local bottles were dug as well as others. I broke into a

Perhaps the rarest of bottles – at least, value-wise – came from a post estate sale. A lady contacted me and hadn’t sold many bottles during the sale. I traveled about 45 miles to look at the bottles, hoping there would be something good that someone had missed. Among common western whiskeys was a Miller’s cylinder fifth. It turned out to be a really scarce bottle with perhaps only a couple of dozen in collections today.

Personally, I am really just a general collector. If I specialized, it would be in Oregon pharmacy and patent

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medicines, dose glasses and canning jars, although I always pick up other types of Oregon bottles I don’t have.

Perhaps my two favorite Oregon bottles are an amber Hodge & Davis drug store bottle with the Oregon state shield embossed on the square 14-ounce bottle.

I have one in my collection. The other I don’t own is the Dr. Loryeas Unkweed Cure, a rare patent medicine from Portland.

While still just a kid, I visited Phyllis and Andy Shimko in their antiques shop in Aurora. I learned from them there were other local people from all over Oregon who were interested in antique bottles and jars. Some early collectors included Bill and Sue Young, Marion Marshal, Harold Hooper, Clarence “Jake” Haynes, Jules Martino, Esther Kemry and Lynn Blumenstein.

The Shimkos carried a few of the early Three Amber Oregon Bottles, Scarce and hard to get bottles bottle books. I pored over the books time and time again to get as much information was held. More than 100 people showed up. as possible. I also purchased bottles and jars from them. (Later, Phyllis Shimko wrote a sarsaparilla book).

In the first few months, the club grew to more than 300 members who all shared an interest in this great hobby During one visit with them, I learned that there was going and today we still have regular meetings, shows and swap to be an exploratory meeting about the formation of an meets, a published newsletter and many members who were antique bottle club in Oregon. In October 1966 at not even born when OBCA formed. the American Legion building in Aurora, the first meeting of the Oregon Bottle Collectors Association I was the youngest charter member of the club and once served as its president.

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MONROE The Early Druggists of n the fall of 2011, after a lot of perseverance and digging I n t h e f a l l o f 2 0 1 1 , a f t e r a l o t o f p e r s e v e r a n c e a n d d i g g i n g many pits of different ages in Monroe, Iowa, I finally

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m a n y p i t s o f d i f f e r e n t a g e s i n M o n r o e , I o w a , I f i n a l l y succeeded in finding the bottle I had been searching for, s u c c e e d e d i n f i n d i n g t h e b o t t l e I h a d b e e n s e a r c h i n g f o r , a a cobalt drug store bottle embossed Dalrymple & Son, c o b a l t d r u g s t o r e b o t t l e , e m b o s s e d D a l r y m p l e & S o n , Druggists, Monroe, IA. This beveled rectangular drug store D r u g g i s t s , M o n r o e , I a . T h i s b e v e l e d r e c t a n g u l a r d r u g s t o r e bottle “W T & Co. 9” on the base, measures 51/4” tall, two b o t t l e Ò W T & C o . 9 Ó o n t h e b a s e , m e a s u r e s 5 � Ó t a l l , t w o inches wide by one and three eighths inches thick, has a fan i n c h e s w i d e b y o n e a n d t h r e e e i g h t h s i n c h e s t h i c k , h a s a decoration with a monogram of “D & S”. f a n d e c o r a t i o n w i t h a m o n o g r a m o f Ò D & S Ó .

A smaller version of this bottle had appeared at a bottle A s m a l l e r v e r s i o n o f t h i s b o t t l e h a d a p p e a r e d a t a b o t t l e show in Ames, Iowa in the 1990s and was included in the s h o w i n A m e s , I o w a i n t h e 1 9 9 0 Õ s a n d w a s i n c l u d e d i n t h e book “The Antique Bottles of Iowa, 1846-1915” (Burggraaf b o o k Ò T h e A n t i q u e B o t t l e s o f I o w a , 1 8 4 6 - 1 9 1 5 Ó and Southard, 1998), but there was not a history associated ( B u r g g r a a f a n d S o u t h a r d , 1 9 9 8 ) , b u t t h e r e w a s n o t a with the druggist included. I began to research the early h i s t o r y a s s o c i a t e d w i t h t h e d r u g g i s t i n c l u d e d . I b e g a n t o Jasper County druggists’ beginnings before I found the r e s e a r c h t h e e a r l y J a s p e r c o u n t y d r u g g i s t s b e g i n n i n g b e f o r e cobalt drug store bottle and continued my research using I h a d f o u n d t h e c o b a l t d r u g s t o r e b o t t l e a n d c o n t i n u e d m y information found from many sources including census r e s e a r c h u s i n g i n f o r m a t i o n f o u n d f r o m m a n y s o u r c e s records and information found in the State Historical i n c l u d i n g C e n s u s r e c o r d s , a n d i n f o r m a t i o n f o u n d i n t h e Library and Newton City Library.

S t a t e H i s t o r i c a l L i b r a r y a n d N e w t o n C i t y L i b r a r y .

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Photograph of the west side of the square around 1890 which appears to show the drugstore as the second building from the left.

By Mark C. Wiseman

I f i n a l l y s u c c e e d e d i n f i n d i n g t h e b o t t l e I h a d b e e n s e a r c h i n g f o r , a c o b a l t d r u g s t o r e b o t t l e , e m b o s s e d D a l r y m p l e & S o n , D r u g g i s t s

Jasper County, Iowa The “History of Jasper County” 1878 has the following T h e Ò H i s t o r y o f J a s p e r C o u n t y Ó 1 8 7 8 h a s t h e f o l l o w i n g description for Fairview Township (Monroe) on page 555: d e s c r i p t i o n f o r F a i r v i e w T o w n s h i p ( M o n r o e ) o n p a g e 5 5 5 : “Dalrymple, druggist, Monroe; born in Knox Co., Ò D a l r y m p l e , A.L., A . L . , d r u g g i s t , M o n r o e ; b o r n i n K n o x C o . , Ohio, in 1824, where he remained until 1853; he then O h i o , i n 1 8 2 4 , w h e r e h e r e m a i n e d u n t i l 1 8 5 3 ; h e t h e n moved to Mills Co., this State, in which he was appointed m o v e d t o M i l l s C o . , t h i s S t a t e , i n w h i c h h e w a s a p p o i n t e d Deputy Treasurer in 1858 and ’59. In 1864, he moved to D e p u t y T r e a s u r e r i n 1 8 5 8 a n d Õ 5 9 . I n 1 8 6 4 , h e m o v e d t o Newton, this county, and engaged in the drug business until N e w t o n , t h i s c o u n t y , a n d e n g a g e d i n t h e d r u g b u s i n e s s 1865; then moved to Monroe and engaged in the hardware u n t i l 1 8 6 5 ; t h e n m o v e d t o M o n r o e a n d e n g a g e d i n t h e business, in which he remained but a short time. He married h a r d w a r e b u s i n e s s , i n w h i c h h e r e m a i n e d b u t a s h o r t t i m e .

Miss Anna E. Gallagher in Knox Co., Ohio; they have H e m a r r i e d M i s s A n n a E . G a l l a g h e r i n K n o x C o . , O h i o ; three children, Preston, Elton and Myrtle. Mr. Dalrymple’s t h e y h a v e t h r e e c h i l d r e n - P r e s t o n , E l t o n a n d M y r t l e . M r . drug store is on the west side of the square; he keeps a full D a l r y m p l e Õ s d r u g s t o r e i s o n t h e w e s t s i d e o f t h e s q u a r e ; line of fresh drugs, medicines, paints, oils, etc. “ His son h e k e e p s a f u l l l i n e o f f r e s h d r u g s , m e d i c i n e s , p a i n t s , o i l s , “P.A. Dalrymple” (Preston) is listed as a clerk in Monroe, e t c . Ò H i s s o n Ò P . A . D a l r y m p l e Ó ( P r e s t o n ) i s l i s t e d a s a presumably at his father’s drug store. c l e r k , i n M o n r o e , p r e s u m a b l y a t h i s f a t h e r s Õ d r u g s t o r e .

The 1860 Census for Mills County, Iowa at Glenwood, lists T h e 1 8 6 0 C e n s u s f o r M i l l s C o u n t y , I o w a a t G l e n w o o d , Aaron Dalrymple as a clerk born in Ohio, age 36; his wife, l i s t s A a r o n D a l r y m p l e a s a c l e r k b o r n i n O h i o , a g e 3 6 , h i s Anna, age 27; son, Preston, age 8, and daughter, Ellen, w i f e A n n a a g e 2 7 , s o n P r e s t o n a g e 8 , a n d d a u g h t e r E l l e n

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The book “Celebrating 150 Years a Pictorial History of Newton, Iowa” contains this photograph of the Monroe House Hotel in 1885.

age 2, having real estate worth $2,000 and a personal estate worth $500. The 1865 Iowa State Gazetteer lists under Newton, Iowa druggists the firm of Reeder & Dalrymple (B.S. Reeder and Aaron L. Dalrymple). The 1869 “Bishard’s Business Directory of the Towns on the Des Moines Valley Railroad” lists in Monroe under “Druggist” two firms: Dalrymple & Johnston, and Johnston & Martin. The1870 Census for Jasper County, Fairview Township (Monroe) lists A.L. Dalrymple living at the household of R. Johnson, a 29 year old druggist from Ohio, who owns $18,000 in real estate, and $2,000 in personal estate and it appears with Johnson’s father, Howard Johnson, a retired farmer age 72. The Dalrymple family living in the same domicile as the Johnsons is listed as A.L. Dalrymple, a 42 year old druggist from Ohio with $7,300 in real estate, and $2,000 in personal estate, with his 36 year old wife, Anna, son Preston, age 18 (listed as “on a farm”); son Elton, age 8, and daughter Myrtle, age 2. (The 1870 Census also lists a J.N. Johnson as a a druggist and an Edward Martin as a druggist in Monroe.)

The book “A History of Monroe, Iowa 1843-1976” (compiled and edited by Al Chamberlain), a bicentennial book, has a chapter by Guy Wilson entitled Business Histories. “The first business directory of record for Monroe is dated 1870”… and lists “Dalrymple and Johnson, Drugs.” The business directory for 1878 lists “Dalrymple Drug Store, West Side of Square.” The chapter contains a tour of Monroe in 1885 taken by John Q. Vandermast, who was the editor of the “Monroe Mirror” newspaper. When he gets to the Dalrymple drug store his quote is “Men may come and men may go,” but A.L. Dalrymple stays right there and continues to deal out drugs, for which he is so well qualified.”

Later on, “We stop for a rest at the Monroe House, whose destinies are presided over by the genial hostess Mrs. A.L. Dalrymple. We consult our time and would you believe it, is high twelve. That’s the time we usually take refreshments- and we got it. A square meal is always secured here.” This book contains a photograph of the west side of the square around 1890 which appears to show the drugstore as the second building from the left.

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The 1880 Census for Monroe in Jasper County lists A.L. Dalrymple as a 56 year old Hotel Keeper, and his wife Annie as a “Landlady,” age 46, and his daughter Myrtle, age 12, “at home.” The 1880-81 Iowa State Gazetteer lists A.L. Dalrymple as a druggist, and also Dalrymple & Johnston listed as hotel proprietors. The Iowa State Gazetteers from 1882-83 through 1897-98 list Aaron L. Dalrymple as a druggist, and as the proprietor of the Monroe House hotel from 1882-83 through 1892-93. The 1900 census for Monroe lists Aaron L. Dalrymple, age 76, his wife Annie, age 67, with no occupations (presumably retired), and his son Preston Dalrymple as a 48 year old grocer. The book “Celebrating 150 Years a Pictorial History

of Newton, Iowa” contains a photograph of the Monroe House Hotel in 1885.

(Although no embossed bottles for these other early Monroe druggists have been found yet, those listed include: 1869 Bishop’s Business Directory: Johnston & Martin; 1878 History of Jasper County: G.W. Loar, M.D. and Druggist; 1880-81, 1882-83 State Gazetteers: George W. Loar, Alamando Willsey; 1884-85 State Gazetteer: George W. Loar, Jessie M. Clintock, CF Sharader)

Dalrymple & Son, Druggists, Monroe, Ia. This beveled rectangular drug store bottle “W T & Co. 9” on the base, measures 5¼” tall, two inches wide by one and three eighths inches thick, has a fan decoration with a monogram of “D & S”.

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Austin published a book titled Minn. Soda Water Works in A u s t i n p u b l i s h e d a b o o k t i t l e d M i n n . S o d a W a t e r W o r k s i n 2012. He is working on a second edition and was looking 2 0 1 2 . H e i s w o r k i n g o n a s e c o n d e d i t i o n a n d w a s l o o k i n g for my source information on the Duluth bottle. A After f o r m y s o u r c e i n f o r m a t i o n o n t h e D u l u t h b o t t l e . f t e r t h e the article was published, the subject of Comstock came a r t i c l e w a s p u b l i s h e d , t h e s u b j e c t o f C o m s t o c k c a m e u p i n up in one of our e-mail exchanges.

Austin informed me o n e o f o u r e - m a i l e x c h a n g e s .

A u s t i n i n f o r m e d m e t h a t a that a new Comstock & Co. bottle [see Fig:1] had been n e w C o m s t o c k & C o . b o t t l e [ s e e F i g : 1 ] h a d b e e n f o u n d . found. It was a small Cronk beer impressed “Dr. Laglee’s I t w a s a s m a l l C r o n k b e e r i m p r e s s e d Ò D r . L a g l e e Õ s S t r a w Strawberry Mead Comstock & Co., St. Paul, Minn.” The b e r r y M e a d C o m s t o c k & C o . , S t . P a u l , M i n n . Ó T h e n a m e name Laglee is not certain as it is poorly impressed.

Again L a g l e e i s n o t c e r t a i n a s i t i s p o o r l y i m p r e s s e d .

A g a i n t h i s this bottle was not impressed “Minnesota Territory,” but b o t t l e w a s n o t i m p r e s s e d Ò M i n n e s o t a T e r r i t o r y , Ó b u t t h e r e there was another name, or part of one, to track down and w a s a n o t h e r n a m e , o r p a r t o f o n e , t o t r a c k d o w n a n d a n an unusual product: strawberry mead. u n u s u a l p r o d u c t : s t r a w b e r r y m e a d .

On the Trail of the Elusive L. R. Comstock, again..... b y T o d v o n M e c h o w

After finishing the article on the elusive Comstock bottles A f t e r f i n i s h i n g t h e a r t i c l e o n t h e e l u s i v e C o m s t o c k b o t t l e s from Saint Paul, Minnesota (B&E May - June 2013 “He f r o m S a i n t P a u l , M i n n e s o t a ( B & E M a y - J u n e 2 0 1 3 Ò H e Was In My Own Backyard the Whole Time or on the W a s I n M y O w n B a c k y a r d t h e W h o l e T i m e o r o n t h e T r a i l Trail of the Elusive L. R. Comstock”), I received some o f t h e E l u s i v e L . R . C o m s t o c k Ó ) , I r e c e i v e d s o m e f e e d b a c k feedback that the article had “botched the information t h a t t h e a r t i c l e h a d Ò b o t c h e d t h e i n f o r m a t i o n a n d d e t a i l s o n and details on him (Levi R. Comstock).” The detractors h i m ( L e v i R . C o m s t o c k ) . Ó T h e d e t r a c t o r s s t i l l b e l i e v e d t h e still believed the bottle was from the 1860s and that if b o t t l e w a s f r o m t h e 1 8 6 0 s a n d t h a t i f i t w a s f r o m t h e it m i d - 1 8 5 0 s i t w o u l d b e m a r k e d M . T . o r M i n n e s o t a T e r r i was from the mid-1850s it would be marked M. T. or Minnesota Territory as Minnesota was not yet a state. t o r y a s M i n n e s o t a w a s n o t y e t a s t a t e .

Although I stand behind the facts that the L. R. Comstock A l t h o u g h I s t a n d b e h i n d t h e f a c t s t h a t t h e L . R . C o m s t o c k was in Minnesota before 1857 and my assertion that bottle w a s i n M i n n e s o t a b e f o r e 1 8 5 7 a n d m y a s s e r t i o n t h a t b o t t l e dates 1854 or 1855, I had no “smoking gun” to prove that d a t e s 1 8 5 4 o r 1 8 5 5 , I h a d n o Ò s m o k i n g g u n Ó t o p r o v e t h a t Levi R. Comstock was in the mineral water business while L e v i R . C o m s t o c k w a s i n t h e m i n e r a l w a t e r b u s i n e s s w h i l e in Minnesota other than the beautiful blue bottles. i n M i n n e s o t a o t h e r t h a n t h e b e a u t i f u l b l u e b o t t l e s .

Try as I might, these new leads turned up dead ends.

T r y a s I m i g h t , t h e s e n e w l e a d s t u r n e d u p d e a d e n d s .

Although I found nothing, A Austin became my ally in A l t h o u g h I f o u n d n o t h i n g , u s t i n b e c a m e m y a l l y i n t h e the search, and he had access to local historical records s e a r c h , a n d h e h a d a c c e s s t o l o c a l h i s t o r i c a l r e c o r d s t h a t I that I did not. My hunch is that the only solution to this d i d n o t . M y h u n c h i s t h a t t h e o n l y s o l u t i o n t o t h i s p u z z l e puzzle lay in the early Saint Paul newspapers. I cannot l a y i n t h e e a r l y S a i n t P a u l n e w s p a p e r s . I c a n n o t b e l i e v e believe that Comstock would have a private mold made t h a t C o m s t o c k w o u l d h a v e a p r i v a t e m o l d m a d e a n d and expensive blue bottles manufactured in western e x p e n s i v e b l u e b o t t l e s m a n u f a c t u r e d i n w e s t e r n P e n n s y l Pennsylvania Y or o r k , a n d s h i p p e d t o t h e f r o n t i e r , b u t w o u l d New York, and shipped to the frontier, v a n i a o r N e w but would not have advertised his business. The same n o t h a v e a d v e r t i s e d h i s b u s i n e s s . T h e s a m e h o l d s t r u e f o r holds true for the strawberry mead. Surely having bottles t h e s t r a w b e r r y m e a d . S u r e l y h a v i n g b o t t l e s m a n u f a c t u r e d manufactured in Ohio with “Dr Laglee” stamped on them i n O h i o w i t h Ò D r L a g l e e Ó s t a m p e d o n t h e m w o u l d h a v e would have warranted an advertisement explaining to the w a r r a n t e d a n a d v e r t i s e m e n t e x p l a i n i n g t o t h e p u b l i c t h e public the benefits of the product. There must be some ads b e n e f i t s o f t h e p r o d u c t . T h e r e m u s t b e s o m e a d s i n t h e in the newspapers! n e w s p a p e r s !

Based on my research, A Austin went to the local historical B a s e d o n m y r e s e a r c h , u s t i n w e n t t o t h e l o c a l h i s t o r i c a l society and searched the newspapers from the mid-1850 s o c i e t y a n d s e a r c h e d t h e n e w s p a p e r s f r o m t h e m i d - 1 8 5 0 and came away with two key clues. First, one of the a n d c a m e a w a y w i t h t w o k e y c l u e s . F i r s t , o n e o f t h e newspapers listed all of the industries in Saint Paul in n e w s p a p e r s l i s t e d a l l o f t h e i n d u s t r i e s i n S a i n t P a u l i n November of 1854. Cities of the period often boasted N o v e m b e r o f 1 8 5 4 . C i t i e s o f t h e p e r i o d o f t e n b o a s t e d o f of their growth in hopes of attracting new residents and t h e i r g r o w t h i n h o p e s o f a t t r a c t i n g n e w r e s i d e n t s a n d businesses. Unfortunately, no brewers or mineral water b u s i n e s s e s . U n f o r t u n a t e l y , n o b r e w e r s o r m i n e r a l w a t e r manufactures were listed. However, in June 1856, there m a n u f a c t u r e s w e r e l i s t e d . H o w e v e r , i n J u n e 1 8 5 6 , t h e r e was mention that ginger pop was being manufactured w a s m e n t i o n t h a t g i n g e r p o p w a s b e i n g m a n u f a c t u r e d i n

L.R. COM Prior to publishing the Comstock article, Austin Fjerestad, P r i o r t o p u b l i s h i n g t h e C o m s t o c k a r t i c l e , A u s t i n F j e r e s t a d , an avid Minnesota bottle researcher, had contacted me a n a v i d M i n n e s o t a b o t t l e r e s e a r c h e r , h a d c o n t a c t e d m e about an early soda bottle I had attributed to Duluth, a b o u t a n e a r l y s o d a b o t t l e I h a d a t t r i b u t e d t o D u l u t h , Minnesota and that was previously unlisted.

M i n n e s o t a a n d t h a t w a s p r e v i o u s l y u n l i s t e d .

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S a i n t P a u l , b u t t h e n a m e o f t h e m a n u f a c t u r e r i s n o t m e n in Saint Paul, but the name of the manufacturer is not t i o n e d . T h i s w o u l d s e e m t o n a r r o w t h i n g s d o w n a b i t . mentioned.

This would seem to narrow things down a T h e r e w e r e n o m i n e r a l w a t e r m a k e r s i n S a i n t P a u l i n 1 8 5 4 , bit.

There were no mineral water makers in Saint Paul in b u t t h e r e w a s i n 1 8 5 6 . W e j u s t n e e d t o p r o v e i t w a s C o m 1854, but there was in 1856. We just need to prove it was s t o c k .

Comstock.

I n h i s b o o k , A u s t i n l i s t s t h e e a r l i e s t d o c u m e n t e d m i n e r a l In his book, Austin lists the earliest documented mineral w a t e r m a n u f a c t u r e r a s J o h n L i n e s , s u p p o r t e d b y r e c o r d s i n water manufacturer as John Lines, supported by records in t h e 1 8 6 0 C e n s u s . E d w a r d A u s t i n w a s a w o r k e r i n L i n e s Õ the 1860 Census. Edward Austin was a worker in Lines’ f a c t o r y . W i l l i a m R o c k w e l l h a d b o u g h t t h e d i s h e v e l e d factory.

William Rockwell had bought the disheveled m i n e r a l w a t e r f a c t o r y , l o c a t e d b y T r o u t B r o o k , f r o m L i n e s mineral water factory, located by Trout Brook, from Lines i n 1 8 6 3 . T h e o n l y t h i n g o f v a l u e i n t h e p u r c h a s e t u r n e d o u t in 1863. The only thing of value in the purchase turned t o b e t h e b o t t l e s . O n e w o u l d t h i n k i f t h e p l a n t a n d e q u i p out to be the bottles. One would think if the plant and m e n t w e r e d e c r e p i t t h a t i t m u s t h a v e b e e n o l d . f t e r s e r v i c e equipment were decrepit that it must have been Aold.

After i n t h e C i v i l W a r , A u s t i n p a r t n e r e d w i t h W i l l i a m R o c k w e l l service in the Civil War, Austin partnered with William i n 1 8 6 6 . H o w l o n g d i d L i n e s o w n t h e p l a n t b e f o r e 1 8 6 0 Rockwell in 1866. How long did Lines own the plant a n d w a s t h i s t h e p l a n t f o u n d e d b y C o m s t o c k ? W e d o n o t before 1860 and was this the plant founded by Comstock? k n o w .

We do not know.

I n a n y c a s e , A u s t i n h a s p r o v e d s o m e o n e w a s b o t t l i n g p o p In any case, Austin has proved someone was bottling pop i n S a i n t P a u l f o u r y e a r s e a r l i e r i n 1 8 5 6 . T h e b e s t c h a n c e i n in Saint Paul four years earlier in 1856. The best chance s o l v i n g t h i s m y s t e r y w o u l d b e f o r A u s t i n t o r e a d t h e in solving this mystery would be for Austin to read the n e w s p a p e r s , f i n d a n a d , a n d p r o v i d e t h e s m o k i n g g u n t o newspapers, find an ad, and provide the smoking gun s o l v e t h i s m y s t e r y . M y a t t e n t i o n w a s t u r n i n g t o n e w to solve this mystery. My attention was turning to new m y s t e r i e s . I h a d n e w g l a s s m a n u f a c t u r e s a n d t w o n e w o p e n mysteries.

I had new glass manufactures and two new p o n t i l e d s o d a b o t t l e s t o r e s e a r c h f o r m y w e b s i t e : open pontiled soda bottles to research for my web site: w w w . s o d a s a n d b e e r s . c o m . www.sodasandbeers.com.

M y p r i m a r y p a s s i o n i s r e s e a r c h i n g e a r l y P h i l a d e l p h i a My primary passion is researching early Philadelphia b o t t l e s . M y a r s e n a l o f r e s e a r c h t o o l s i n c l u d e s t w o w e b s i t e s bottles.

My arsenal of research tools includes two web a n c e s t r y . c o m a n d f o l d 3 . c o m .

A n c e s t r y . c o m h a s C e n s u s , sites ancestry.com and fold3.com.

Ancestry.com has t a x , d i r e c t o r i e s , n e w s p a p e r s , a n d l o c a l h i s t o r i e s , b u t i t s Census, tax, directories, newspapers, and local histories, P h i l a d e l p h i a d i r e c t o r y c o v e r a g e i s n o t g o o d f o r t h e e a r l y but its Philadelphia directory coverage is not good for the y e a r s . F o l d 3 h a s e x t e n s i v e m i l i t a r y r e c o r d s , C e n s u s early years. Fold3 has extensive military records, Census r e c o r d s , n e w s p a p e r s , a n d , m o s t u s e f u l f o r m e , a n e a r l y f u l l records, newspapers, and, most useful for me, a nearly full s e t o f P h i l a d e l p h i a d i r e c t o r i e s f r o m 1 7 8 5 t o 1 9 2 2 . set of Philadelphia directories from 1785 to 1922.

N e i t h e r s i t e h a s P h i l a d e l p h i a n e w s p a p e r s f r o m t h e t i m e Neither site has Philadelphia newspapers from the time

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period that interests me. So my arsenal was missing an important weapon. I tried finding a site for Philadelphia newspapers several times to no avail. There are several big newspaper sites out there, but their Philadelphia coverage is weak for the years I am searching. While researching a new open pontiled soda from Philadelphia, I tried a search again for a newspaper site and found a good prospect called GenealogyBank.com. I subscribed for one month to try it out and I was impressed with the coverage of Philadelphia for the pontiled bottle era. I did some trial searches and found a great article on Eugene Roussel from the July 10th, 1839 edition of the Public Ledger:

MINERAL WATERS - We received a day or two since, from the manufacturer, Mons.

Eugene Roussel, chemist, 75 Chesnut street, a sample of his artificial Mineral Waters, put up on the French plan, in glass bottles, ready mixed, with all varieties of syrups, and calculated for immediate home use, for exportation, or to be used at sea. Upon being uncorked and turned into a glass, it effervesces freely, is very palatable, and is described as being superior to artificial mineral waters drawn from fountains, in common use in our cities, from being kept free from all liability to become impregnated, like them, with copper, from the vessels containing them.

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This type of ad is a fairly common one for a producer of a retail product. A new business would send their product to the local newspaper editors, who would rate it and write a small article announcing the proprietor and his product to the public. This ad is important, because it confirms Roussel’s claim to have started bottling mineral water in 1839 and having bottled flavored mineral waters, which previously had been only bottled unflavored.

I continued to search for other early bottlers that had proved elusive previously and found some great information, but again I found that the optical character recognition (OCR) tool used to translate the newspapers into searchable text can make finding what you want difficult. The lesson is if you do not succeed on a search, don’t give up. Try looking for it using various combinations of key words and phrases. Try names, addresses and products as search items. Searching for Roussel, for example, did not turn up the above ad, nor did a search of his address. What found it were the phrases “mineral waters” and “1839.” But using broad searches on common words means that you will have to weed through lots of unrelated ads and articles.

When searching for mineral waters in later years there were hundreds of ads for merchants selling corks for mineral water and other types of bottles. Corks were of little interest to me. I’m a bottle man.

About a week later I got a call from Ron, a genealogist at GenealogyBank, offering his help in how to use the site and to see if I had any questions. The conversation quickly turned to their newspaper collection, of which they are very proud. Ron stated that the East Coast collection of early newspapers was the best on the Internet and I have to agree with what I have seen so far. He also claimed their OCR was at better than 90%. On this point I had to disagree based on my searches to date. It may have been better on later newspapers but these 1840s newspapers have very small print that can be unclear to the naked eye let alone a computer program. Although we disagreed on this point I ended up subscribing for a year, because there was so much gold to be mined from their collection and it was the missing weapon in my research arsenal.

After much fun searching for Philadelphia soda and beer bottler ads, I decide to try finding information on some of the mavericks, or bottles without town names, that are listed on my web site. I have a special page dedicated to maverick pontiled soda and beer bottles as well as pottery and smooth based bottles. I started working my way down the maverick list and identified a couple, one of which has eluded researchers since Van Rensselaer’s book in the 1920. And it involves androids! But that is another article.

This one is about Comstock, right? Bear with me, this was a winding trail.

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[ F i g s : 2 & 3 ] One of the mavericks on my web site is a late 1840s bottle embossed “M. Kom’s Superior Mineral Water Great Western.”

One of the mavericks on my web site is a late 1840s bottle O n e o f t h e m a v e r i c k s o n m y w e b s i t e i s a l a t e 1 8 4 0 s b o t t l e embossed “M. Kom’s Superior Mineral Water Great e m b o s s e d Ò M . K o m Õ s S u p e r i o r M i n e r a l W a t e r G r e a t Western.” [see Fig: 2 & 3] Two of these bottles were W e s t e r n . Ó [ s e e F i g : 2 & 3 ] T w o o f t h e s e b o t t l e s w e r e found in Wisconsin.

Ron from GenealogyBank touted their f o u n d i n W i s c o n s i n . R o n f r o m G e n e a l o g y B a n k t o u t e d Eastern newspaper collection, but what about the Midwest? t h e i r E a s t e r n n e w s p a p e r c o l l e c t i o n , b u t w h a t a b o u t t h e If I could find this guy it would be the earliest soda bottle M i d w e s t ? I f I c o u l d f i n d t h i s g u y i t w o u l d b e t h e e a r l i e s t from Wisconsin.

The newspaper coverage from Wisconsin s o d a b o t t l e f r o m W i s c o n s i n . T h e n e w s p a p e r c o v e r a g e f r o m was pretty good, but I was not able to solve this mystery. If W i s c o n s i n w a s p r e t t y g o o d , b u t I w a s n o t a b l e t o s o l v e t h i s the Wisconsin coverage was good, I began to wonder about m y s t e r y . I f t h e W i s c o n s i n c o v e r a g e w a s g o o d , I b e g a n t o their coverage of Minnesota? Maybe I would get lucky and w o n d e r a b o u t t h e i r c o v e r a g e o f M i n n e s o t a ? M a y b e I find something. w o u l d g e t l u c k y a n d f i n d s o m e t h i n g .

My thoughts again turned to Comstock spending all M y t h o u g h t s a g a i n t u r n e d t o C o m s t o c k s p e n d i n g a l l t h i s this money to open a business, possibly the first of its m o n e y t o o p e n a b u s i n e s s , p o s s i b l y t h e f i r s t o f i t s k i n d i n kind in Minnesota Territory. He must have advertised. If M i n n e s o t a T e r r i t o r y . H e m u s t h a v e a d v e r t i s e d . I f G e n e a l o Genealogy Bank had Saint Paul newspapers in their g y B a n k h a d S a i n t P a u l n e w s p a p e r s i n t h e i r c o l l e c t i o n f o r

collection for the years 1854 to 1859, I might find that t h e y e a r s 1 8 5 4 t o 1 8 5 9 , I m i g h t f i n d t h a t s m o k i n g g u n . smoking gun. My first search was “Comstock” in Minnesota M y f i r s t s e a r c h w a s Ò C o m s t o c k Ó i n M i n n e s o t a f o r t h e for the years 1850 to 1860. I get a small number of hits, y e a r s 1 8 5 0 t o 1 8 6 0 . I g e t a s m a l l n u m b e r o f h i t s , b u t but nothing is even close. I am quickly disappointed, but n o t h i n g i s e v e n c l o s e . I a m q u i c k l y d i s a p p o i n t e d , b u t t h e the good news is that there is a Saint Paul newspaper in the g o o d n e w s i s t h a t t h e r e i s a S a i n t P a u l n e w s p a p e r i n t h e collection and I see hits from 1854 through 1857; so there is c o l l e c t i o n a n d I s e e h i t s f r o m 1 8 5 4 t h r o u g h 1 8 5 7 ; s o t h e r e coverage. I tried a couple of key word “Strawberry Mead” i s c o v e r a g e . I t r i e d a c o u p l e o f k e y w o r d Ò S t r a w b e r r y with no hits “Strawberry,” hits but not relevant, “Mineral M e a d Ó w i t h n o h i t s Ò S t r a w b e r r y , Ó h i t s b u t n o t r e l e v a n t , Waters,” no hits, “Mineral Water,” ah several! Ò M i n e r a l W a t e r s , Ó n o h i t s , Ò M i n e r a l W a t e r , Ó a h s e v e r a l !

The first was an ad in the Saint Paul Pioneer dated April T h e f i r s t w a s a n a d i n t h e S a i n t P a u l P i o n e e r d a t e d A p r i l 21st, 1857 and announced the “Dissolution of Partnership” 2 1 s t , 1 8 5 7 a n d a n n o u n c e d t h e Ò D i s s o l u t i o n o f P a r t n e r between Winder & Dreher who operated a mineral water s h i p Ó b e t w e e n W i n d e r & D r e h e r w h o o p e r a t e d a m i n e r a l factory. James L. Winder was going to continue to operate w a t e r f a c t o r y . J a m e s L . W i n d e r w a s g o i n g t o c o n t i n u e t o the factory himself. Maybe they purchased this factory o p e r a t e t h e f a c t o r y h i m s e l f . M a y b e t h e y p u r c h a s e d t h i s from Comstock & Steere in 1856 or 1857. The other ad f a c t o r y f r o m C o m s t o c k & S t e e r e i n 1 8 5 6 o r 1 8 5 7 . T h e was in the same paper, but later in the year on o t h e r a d w a s i n t h e s a m e p a p e r , b u t l a t e r i n t h e y e a r o n

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July 7th. It speaks of a stabbing at the mineral water factory of Danford & Shelly. Apparently a Charles O’Neal went to the factory to settle a debt with James L. Winters (one of the employees) and the altercation resulted in Winters stabbing O’Neal in the chest with an ice pick. Luckily for O’Neal, he had a “stiff card” in his breast pocket that lessoned the blow and kept the wound to an inch and a half in depth. James L. Winters must have been the James L. Winder from the previous firm. Winders must not have been successful and sold the plant to Danford & Shelly soon after he broke up with W. F. Drehrer. But the interesting fact is that this article mentions that the factory was located at Trout Brook! If you remember, the decrepit Trout Creek factory was purchased in 1863 by William Rockwell. This seems to place this plant in operation as early as 1857.

My attention turns back to Comstock. I try names starting with Coms, bottling, bottlers, bottled, soda water, soda waters, soda, Steere, names starting with Stee, bottles, beer.

NOTHING! NOTHING! NOTHING! Again no smoking gun! This is frustrating. I cannot believe that Comstock did not advertise. Maybe that is why he went out of business. I wrack my brain to see what other words I could search on, but I realized that I have covered all of the obvious ones. Ah search the location! I search Trout Brook, the location of the plant in 1857. Nothing; …….again!

I’m done. This may be one mystery that will never be solved. Austin, my researching friend in Minnesota, mentioned that there were several papers at the historical library and maybe he will have better luck, as GenealogyBank appear to only have one Saint Paul paper in their collection for the years 1854 to 1857. I start joking with myself and remember all of the cork ads I had to weed through when I was searching for the phrase mineral water in Philadelphia. The Mineral Water search in all of Minnesota for the years 1850 to 1860 only yielded two ads and nobody selling mineral water bottle corks. As a Hail Mary, I enter in “cork” and search, lots of hits but no cigar.

Oh yeah, always do the plural; “Corks.” Press the “Search” button……..

season likewise. Messrs. COMSTOCK & Co., can hardly fail, especially during hot weather, to dispose of a large quantity of their manufacture, and we trust they will.

This is what I believe should exist. Just like Eugene Roussel [see Fig: 4] did sixteen years earlier when he introduced his mineral waters to the public, Comstock & Co. used the same approach of sending samples of their mineral waters to the local paper editors for comment. This confirms my assertion that this bottle is made in 1854 or 1855 and was made when Minnesota was still a territory, but is not marked as such.

The lesson here is that when searching for records on the Internet where books, newspapers, or other documents are scanned and later processed thru an OCR reader, the resulting test searches will not be 100% perfect. You as the researcher need to be creative in the way that you search historical documents to find those gems that buried deep in their pages.

Maybe those who felt I “botched” the information on Comstock will reconsider. This new information fits in perfectly with the historical journey of Levi R. Comstock starting in Mallorytown, Ontario, Canada in 1821 and ending in my backyard in West Bradford, Pennsylvania in 1901.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME! I cannot believe it. I found the smoking gun! The Saint Paul Pioneer on May 19th, 1855 had the following article: REFRESHING BEVERAGE. --. We are very agreeably surprised yesterday by a visit from Messrs. L. R. COMSTOCK & CO., who introduced to our notice and taste a goodly quantity of delicately flavored mineral water, carefully bottled up. A considerable popping of corks immediately took place, on all hands, and after due attention had been given to the welcome beverage, it was pronounced by our devil, whose judgment is unquestionable, to be not only very potable but admirably adapted to the taste and

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The Crispin Drug Store in Lincoln, Kansas

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Nestled in the north central plains of Kansas lies Lincoln, Kansas. Lincoln is considered the post rock capital of the state. In 1870 George Green, the founder of the town of Lincoln, named it after Lincoln County, which had received its name in honor of the president, Abraham Lincoln. A close neighbor and several cousins of Abraham Lincoln had settled here.

One of the most fascinating drug store museums anywhere is located in Lincoln. The Museumist and pharmacist owner is Jack D. Crispin, Jr. Mr. Crispin began working in pharmacies starting in Topeka, Kansas at the age of 17. He graduated from the KU School of Pharmacy and owned a very successful pharmacy, after practicing in hospital pharmacies, in Lincoln, Kansas.

The museum contains a thorough and beautiful assortment of pharmacy memorabilia, cabinetry, shelving, and spectacular bottles of every aspect of a small town drug store operating in the era

between 1880 and 1920 in the US. The first photo is of the aisle of the Crispin Museum shows the splendid assortment of items in the collection. Mr. Crispin is in the photo at the dispensing counter of the museum.

The Crispin Drug Store Museum was opened on July 22, 2007. The era represented in the museum was a time when pharmacies evolved from times when every prescription was compounded by the pharmacist to a time when delivery of medications via drug manufacturers. The pharmacist of the era in the museum did continue to make many prescriptions from ingredients as in the past.

Thus, the collection of bottles and containers in the Crispin Museum is extraordinary. The wall cases in the museum are from the Snyder Drug Store, and the work counter is from the Frevale Rexall Store.

The range of types of bottles is shown in the third photograph. This is an extensive collection of many beautiful and so well displayed bottles. The fourth photograph showing the rows of stoppered apothecary bottles with air tight sealed caps.

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This collection is unique in many respects, but each of the bottles contains the original chemicals which date to the 1880s. The close up photograph, No. 5, shows the elaborate labels printed in Latin slanted script.

The plating and labels depicted are elaborate. The 6th and 7th photograph show the containers that were amber and blue that protected the ingredients from the effects of light. The 8th photograph is of a very rare and unique apothecary cabinet in the Crispin Museum. This compact shelving unit allowed for numerous bottles to be held and accessed easily in a drug store where space would have been at a premium.

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Blue Colored top and bottom apothecary jars

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FINAL THOUGHTS The Crispin Drug Store Museum is fantastic and such a beautiful exhibit of spectacular bottles and memorabilia. Jack Crispin is a remarkably talented individual with a vast knowledge of his collection, the historical era depicted, and of the bottles in this collection.

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Billy Foust and a Banana Full of Whiskey Special to Bottles and Extras

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Fig. 2: Foust Distillery

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John’s whiskey production relatively as he the farmer-distiller was a familiarwas figure.

John’ssmall whiskey continued to concentrate on breeding horses and farming his production was relatively small as he continued to concenfertile bottom land. trate on breeding horses and farming his fertile bottom land.

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Foust did did not not become become aa major major name namein inwhiskey-making whiskey-making Foust until 1858 1858 when when John’s John’s son, son, Billy, Billy at Foust, at the agetook of 22 until the age of 22 took the overoperation. the operation. seeninhere in maturity over He is He seenis here maturity (Fig. (Fig. 3). Billy Billy rebuilt rebuilt his his father’s father’s still, still, constructed constructedaasixsix-story 3). warehouse and added otherother ancillary buildings.

He also story warehouse and added ancillary buildings. greatly production.

A engraving from the 1890s He also increased greatly increased production.

A engraving showsthe the1890s original farm surrounded by distilleryfrom shows thehouse original farm house related structures (Fig. 4). surrounded by distillery-related structures (Fig. Fig. 4).

Foust rapidly became known for his highly imaginative way of packaging his liquor. The York County Bottle Book counts some 15 ceramic and glass figural bottles attributed to the Foust distillery.

Fig. 5: Pretzel flask

They are attributed because their original paper labels in almost every case have been lost and no other identifying markings are on the items. In addition to the faux banana, the Foust flasks include a highly realistic salt-covered pretzel (Fig. 5), a ceramic cucumber (Fig. 6), an ear of corn and partially peeled sweet potato (Fig. 7), as well as a glass billy club (Fig. 8). Among other figurals attributed to Foust are a roast turkey, cigar, ham bone, clam shells, fish, pig and horn of plenty. Most held about a half pint of whiskey. While these are desirable collectables, buyers must be wary of reproductions.

More assured identification can be made of the interesting “giveaway” small ceramic jugs that Foust featured. They bear the name of the Wm. Foust, Distiller, sometimes in gold letters (Fig. 9, 10). The jugs are found with a number of designs, almost always bearing the inscription “compliments of.” They come in pint, half pint, miniature and intermediate sizes.

Fig. 3: Picture of William “Billy” Foust

Fig. 4: Illustration of Foustown distillery

Billy Foust also packaged his whiskey in glass bottles, both clear and amber (Fig. 11). His brands included “Old Foust,” “Springfield Copper Distilled” and “Glenrock

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Top - Fig. 6: Cucumber flask Below - Fig. 8: Billy club flask

Fig. 7: Corn and sweet potato flasks

Whiskey.” Like many whiskey dealers and distributors he provided favorite consumers, including saloons, with a variety of advertising items. Those included a glass back of the bar bottle and shot glasses that advertised Glenrock Whiskey (Figs. 12,13).

By 1907 under Billy’s leadership production was up to 3,000 barrels of whiskey a year. A small brick and stone village grew up around the springfed hollow that was the site of the distillery. The town had housing for the employees, a railroad station, a town square with a water fountain, as well as telephone service -- rare for a rural location. The location became known as Foustown, causing confusion with another Pennsylvania community of the same name. Eventually the distillery grew to include a bonded warehouse and a “bottled in bond” bottling facility. To facilitate the transport of his whiskey by rail, Foust also maintained an office in downtown Glen Rock.

In March 1859, Billy married Christina Bricker of York County. Seven surviving children were born to this marriage, five boys and two girls.

Active in the Lutheran Church and his community, the elder Foust became a respected business leader, holding a number of positions of prominence in Glen Rock. A 1886 History of York County declared: “Few men are better known throughout York and adjoining counties than Billy Foust.”

In 1910 Billy retired. Four of his sons took over the operation and changed the name to William Foust Sons Distillers. The sons were Fred, John Quincy, William and Robert. They Fig. 9: Foust half-pint with metal top continued to upgrade and modernize the

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facilities. One innovation was the introduction of motorized vehicles for transport at Foustown (Fig. 14).

Billy’s boys kept alive their father’s tradition of attractive giveaways. A variety of shot glasses, including one with a label under glass in the base indicate the continuing

Fig. 10: Foust square mini-jug

creativity of the family. The sons’ giveaways also included mini-jugs (Fig. 15) and a tin cup (Fig. 16). Emphasizing the fervor of Foust collectors, the tin cup not long ago sold on eBay for $227.

With the coming of Prohibition in 1919, the Fousts were forced to close the business. Billy died the same year. Nevertheless, the distillery bearing his name made headlines in 1921

Fig. 12: Glenrock back of the bar bottle

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when a gang of bootleggers, reputedly from Baltimore, raided the whiskey stored in the warehouse. A local newspaper reported that the theft netted “almost 300 barrels of the best firewater the Foust family had ever made.” Law enforcement officials were reported able to recover only some of the liquid loot. The Fousts subsequently sold the distillery.

After Repeal in 1934, the Foust brand continued to be produced by Sherwood Distilling in nearby Westminster, Maryland. During World War II, Foust’s Glen Rock facility was refitted to produce industrial alcohol, but the war ended before production began. For many years a 125-foot

smokestack, built at that time but never used, was all that remained intact of Billy’s distillery (Fig. 17). After being struck by lightning several times it was torn down several years ago. Its demise marked the end of Foustown.

The Foust name and tradition, however, is remembered and carried on by the legion of collectors who are willing to pay substantial amounts for the wide range of the distillery flasks, bottles, jugs, shot glasses, and other items. The price of that ceramic banana, for example, will buy many, many bunches of the real thing.

Fig: 17: Photo of Foust smokestack

Fig. 15: Foust Sons mini jug

Fig. 16: Foust Sons tin cup

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Dr. Henley’s Royal Palm Gin Part 2 of a Series

by Stephen Hubbell and Eric McGuire

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San Francisco Bay. He wasted no time in purchasing property there, as early as April 3, 1857, when he bought 5.5 acres off “B” Street, which was also the location of a known spring that, at the time, was on the edge of town and just above the elevation of most of the structures there.

Henley proceeded to improve the spring and ran a pipeline about one block down to “B” Street under what is now called Spring Street, and then towards town, for the purpose of supplying water. The Sonoma County Journal (Petaluma, California) of May 1, 1857, did not let this undertaking go unnoticed.

no interest at the fairs. Determined not to be put down, he then started claiming that his pigs were “Westphalians”, and that they were from Germany, to enhance their importance. The net result was that his pigs then became very desirable, he won many awards and profited quite handsomely from them as a result. This ability to take readily available materials or resources and then come up with a new invention for the public was something he did frequently throughout his life; at least when it came to pharmaceutical science. Later newspaper articles would mention:

“Petaluma Water Works - Without a doubt, the most important work of either a private or public character which has been undertaken in Petaluma, is now being performed by Mr. William Henley. We allude to the introduction of a supply of fresh spring water into our village, sufficiently large not only to furnish our citizens with abundance for all the ordinary uses, but also to have in constant reserve a large quantity to be used for the extinguishing of fires.”

“Dr. Henley was the proprietor of some much-advertised patent medicines, and he used to experiment so much with them and other new remedies that he shattered his own system.”

“The importance of this undertaking, for the safety of our town, and the benefits to be derived by our citizens from its successful completion, cannot be too highly appreciated, The projector of the work is the more deserving of praise, from the fact that he is as yet an almost entire stranger to our people. A few weeks since, Mr. Henley visited Petaluma for the first time.”

“The doctor is in his glory, with all his compounds well in hand, ready to try them on innocent fair-goers at a moment’s notice.”

“From the reservoir, the water will be conducted along all of the principal streets, through a wrought iron pipe 2 1/2 inches in diameter. Branch pipes of small size will be laid from the main pipe to the premises of all who desire the water. Fire plugs will also be placed at proper distances, and a supply of water kept constantly in reserve, to be used in extinguishing fires. The trench in which the main pipe is to be laid, has already been dug from the spring to Main street, and thence along Main as far as Washington; and workmen are now actively engaged in laying down the pipe.”

So William Henley understood the importance and value of a reliable water supply and, just as he did in Iowa Hill, he also applied this knowledge to the town of Petaluma.

Shortly thereafter, Henley also purchased more property north of Petaluma and began his ranching activities.

William Henley had by 1857 a large ranch where he bred livestock for show and sale at the local county and state fairs. It was here that he first showed his ingenuity in marketing to the public a product that otherwise would not have been popular. In this case it was some pigs that he had purchased from the captain of an English sailing vessel in the San Francisco harbor. These pigs, while nice in appearance lacked any pedigree, and consequently sparked

Dr. Henley was also quite a salesman when it came to introducing his medicines to the public. The July 18, 1881 issue of the Willamette Farmer described Dr. Henley’s marketing abilities this way:

In 1859, his daughter and son-in-law, Catherine and Theodore Skillman, moved to Petaluma as well, and that name is memorialized in a street, Skillman Lane, near where the Skillmans and Henleys lived. In 1860, Theodore and Catharine left for Nevada but only remained for five years whereupon they returned to Petaluma. William Henley’s oldest son, Alexander Henley, was born in Petaluma in 1860. Shortly thereafter, Henley moved fifty miles further north to Healdsburg, California in Sonoma County. His second son, Walter Franklin Henley, was born there in 1861. William achieved some success in providing Russian River pork to the surrounding markets, including San Francisco, where he sold his products under the O.K. Brand (Figure 12). By late 1861, Henley also started advertising a new soap product by the name of California Chemical Olive Soap21. This was most likely made from lard and was quite popular at the time. It was advertised in newspapers well into 1862. This product was also Henley’s first invention based on chemical experimentation and likely set the stage for his future patent medicine career.

Perhaps it was precipitated by the death of his wife, who cannot be found in the record after the birth of Walter, or as reported in a newspaper article (The Eugene City Guard, July 23, 1887), he just wanted to move on from his life as a butcher. Something occurred in the life of William Henley that stirred a significant change in his life. After a hiatus of a few years, Henley reappeared in Portland, Oregon, sporting the title of Doctor. According to Portland City

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where the Royal Balsam could be sold throughout the state and later the country.

Given that Louis Gross arrived in Portland by mid-1865, it is possible that he could have also helped in the preparation and advertisement of Dr. Henley’s Magic Pills but, unfortunately, the historical record is unclear on this point. This collaboration would have allowed Dr. Henley to pursue other interests. Their collaboration quickly grew to the point where Louis Gross was the sole proprietor and manufacturer for not only Dr. Henley’s Royal Balsam, but also a growing list of patent medicines Figure 12: William Henley Sells Pig Products under His O.K. Brand invented by Dr. Henley at that time, including his Liver Regulator (Figure 14), Directories for 1865 he was listed without a title as William Ague Cure and Fountain of Life remedy (Figure 15).

Henley. From 1866 to 1867 he was listed as an oculist (optometrist). From 1868 to at least 1884 (Portland City The evidence for Louis Gross purchasing the bottles for Dr. Directory), he assumed the title of Doctor and was listed Henley’s Royal Balsam is documented in the March 18, as a physician both in Oregon and later in California. It is 1868 issue of the Oregonian (Figure 16a,b) where Louis unclear from the historical record whether that title was earned through education or just adopted for his new life in mentions the difficulty he was having in the manufacture of the Royal Balsam bottle. By March of 1868, Louis Gross Portland. There was a medical school that operated out of used a Portland sole agent for Dr. Henley’s medicines, by San Francisco as early as May of 1859 at the University of the Pacific. This short lived school was followed in 1864 by the name of Charles H. Woodard, who was authorized to sell them throughout Oregon as well as the Washington the Toland Medical College, also in San Francisco, which and Idaho territories. Gross sold his Portland drug business for $130 and eight months of courses gave the student to Woodard, and around June of 1868 both Dr. Henley a doctor of medicine degree. It is also possible that he and Louis Gross moved to San Francisco to expand their obtained his doctor title while in Oregon. The Willamette business under the company name L. Gross & Co. University College of Medicine, located at the time in Salem, Oregon, was teaching medical students as early One of the first medicines believed to have been produced as 1865. The most likely way he obtained his title was through the development of his medicines as implied in one for Dr. Henley while in San Francisco was “The Elegant.” newspaper article (The Eugene City Guard, July 23, 1887). The only newspaper article associating this medicine with Dr. Henley is shown in Figure 17a-c. The most likely Either way, by late 1865 Dr. Henley had ads placed in the Oregonian for his new patent medicine, Henley’s Magic Pills, which came in a box and were sold directly by him out of his office in Portland (Figure 13). In these ads he was using the title of Doctor for the first time. By January 28, 1866, the Oregon Sentinel (Jacksonville, Ore.) placed ads for his first bottled patent medicine, Dr. Henley’s Royal Balsam. Apparently, this was the first time that he sold his patent medicine through another group which in this case was Sutton & Hyde located in Jacksonville. For a brief two months in 1866, Dr. Henley advertised his services as a physician in San Francisco. It is not clear why he was in San Francisco at that time although it could have also been to promote his ever growing list of patent medicines. By 1867, the Royal Balsam was proving to be very popular and for the first time, at least according to newspaper ads, Dr. Henley collaborated with Louis Gross (a general merchant and druggist also in Portland) to create a depot Figure 13: Dr. William Henley Sells His First Patent Medicine

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advertisements for it are also shown in that figure. The fact that Dr. Henley was in San Francisco at that time and the product does not have the Lacour name associated with it gives some credence to this article. It is also interesting that L. Lacour & Company was the manufacturer, or at least the seller, for it. Louis Lacour is well known to Western Bitters collectors for his highly desirable lighthouse-shaped Sarsapariphere Bitters bottles. If these advertisements are for Dr. Henley’s medicine, it would represent the only known association between these two bitters dealers. Unfortunately, no examples of the bottle for the “The Elegant” are known to exist. Given the relatively short time of six months that it was advertised, and likely sold, this is not a surprise.

Figure 14: Dr. Henley’s Liver Regulator Figure 15: Ad for Dr. Henley’s Fountain of Life Medicine

Figure 16b: Louis Gross Manufactures Dr. Henley’s Royal Balsam Bottles

Figure 16a: Louis Gross Manufactures Dr. Henley’s Royal Balsam Bottles

In 1868, Dr. Henley unveiled one of his most famous inventions - Dr. Henley’s Wild Grape Root IXL Bitters - through L. Gross & Co. (see Figure 18). At least fifty cases of this product were displayed at the 1868 California State Fair by Dr. Henley and he won first premium. This product quickly became quite popular and was sold throughout California and Oregon. (Figure 19, Image on first page of article) shows some of the colors that these bottles have been found as well as an early labeled bottle showing the face of Dr. Henley. Based upon newspaper articles it is clear that Louis Gross did most of the work in setting up the company, trade marking Henley’s inventions, fending off those who would copy the product for their own financial gain and making sure the products were made and delivered to the public. Dr. Henley promoted the product at state fairs and other venues and continued his development of new medicines.

Using the same trade name he had used for his pork products in the early 1860s, in 1869 Dr. Henley trademarked and also sold his O.K. Spiced Wine Bitters which apparently did not catch on with the public (see Figure 20). By the

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Figure 17a: Introduction Ad for Dr. Henley’s “The Elegant”

Figure 17b: Ad for Dr. Henley’s “The Elegant”

Figure 17c: Ad for Dr. Henley’s “The Elegant” and many others

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The combination of relatively rapid and safe transport, as well as new capital, enabled the newly formed H. Epstein & Co to market Dr. Henley’s Wild Grape Bitters throughout the Western United States (see Figure 21) and even to Australia. At the same time, another product was made available specifically for consumers east of The Rockies (e.g. Midwest and South) called Dr. Henley’s California IXL Bitters. Based on the ad shown in Figure 21, this new product was simply the original Wild Grape Bitters with a new name designed to appeal to a more Eastern market. To efficiently sell this product a new depot and manufacturing facility was set up in Chicago, Illinois under L. Gross & Co. with, of course, Louis Gross as head of the company

Chicago City Directories for 1870 show that Louis Gross, Dr. Henley and Henry Epstein were in the city at that time apparently to set up the new manufacturing facility and depot for the California IXL Bitters. Shortly thereafter Henry Epstein departed back to San Francisco and Dr. Henley stayed on with his family until about July of 1871 whereupon they returned to San Francisco. Dr. Henley must have had unfinished business in Chicago for

Figure 18: Louis Gross & Co. Trade Mark and Ad from 1868 San Francisco City Directory

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Figure 20: O.K. Spiced Wine Bitters Trade Mark, Advertisement and Bottle(Left)

Figure 21: Advertisement for Dr. Henley’s IXL Bitters Under H. Epstein & Co.

he went back there and returned to San Francisco again in October of 1871. Upon his return, Dr. Henley introduced two new medicines to the public. In February of 1872, he introduced his Indian Queen Hair Restorative (Figure 23) and at the California State Fair that year he introduced his Eye Opener (Figure 25) and Wild Cherry Tonic.

Figure 24 shows a rare 1871 trademark or broadside for the Indian Queen Hair

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These inventions were apparently not very popular since they were only advertised for about a year. Unlike Dr. Henley’s IXL Bitters and Regulator medicines, none of these products are directly associated with H. Epstein & Co., which would tend to indicate that Dr. Henley was somewhat of a free spirit when it came to manufacturing and marketing his bitters and patent medicines. In fact, the San Francisco City Directory for 1873 (published in March of that year) shows that Dr. Henley formed a short lived partnership with a William J. Bradbury to manufacture his bitters and tonics, including the Eye Opener. This partnership lasted about as long as the sales for the Eye Opener tonic. By 1874, there is no mention of Dr. Henley in the San Francisco City Directory and William J. Bradbury is listed as a merchant. This independence

by Dr. Henley might also explain why H. Epstein & Co. is listed as agents for his Royal Palm Gin. It appears they were agents for Dr. Henley and his product.

It’s also interesting to note that Chicago, during the time period when Henley and Gross were together there, also had a large number of distilleries in operation. Gin was a very popular beverage in the East at that time. One of the most prominent establishments was the Henry H. Shufeldt & Company distillery (1869 – 1917). In 1870, this firm started marketing a medicinal beverage known as Imperial Gin in an embossed, amber colored, case gin style bottle throughout Chicago and the country.

At that time, gin was advertised as having the ability to cure a number of human ailments and was even sold in drug stores.

Bininger’s Old London Dock Gin was also heavily advertised there with those same medicinal claims. Dr. Henley would surely have known of this when he later introduced his London Royal Palm Gin medicine to the public in February of 1873. Whether that contributed to the Royal Palm Gin’s development no one can know for sure but the timing is interesting. It is also interesting that all advertisements for foreign (e.g. from Holland) palm-related gins appeared to

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Figure 23: Ad for Dr. Henley’s Indian Queen Hair Restorative

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cease prior to Dr. Henley introducing his gin into the marketplace. This instance is not the only one where Dr. Henley appeared to copy a competitor’s brand for his own financial gain. The relevance of the previous historical information to dating the Royal Palm Gin bottle will become evident later in this article.

In 1875, Dr. Henley introduced his new Dew of the Alps bitters to the public at the California State Fair.

His existing Regulator and Royal Palm Gin medicines were also on display. Upon his return to California sometime after September 1872, Louis Gross filed a trade mark for the Dew of the Alps bitters in Sacramento by 1875 for H. Epstein & Co.. This product was apparently made from at least 1875 to 1879, according newspaper records of the California Industrial Fair for 1875 and the Mechanics Institute for 1877 and 1879. Apparently this product was not advertised very well since no known references exist after 1879 and no known newspaper advertisements exist during the time that it was being made. The fact that the Dew of the Alps product was a bitters, as opposed to a patent medicine, can be found in the September 11, 1875 issue of the Pacific Rural Press where it was explicitly stated. Figure 26 shows the only known photograph of the Dew of the Alps bitters bottle which was on display at the Mechanics’ Institutes Fourteenth Industrial Exhibition in 1879, along with Dr. Henley’s IXL Bitters.To the author’s knowledge there are no known examples of this bottle; however, one has been rumored to have been found in Portland, Oregon.

Figure 25: Two Color Variants of Dr. Henley’s Eye Opener

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Figure 26: Label(right) and Bottle(top) for Dr. Henley’s Dew of the Alps Bitters.

Left, Carleton Watkins photograph from fourteenth industrial Exhibition, Mechanic’s Institute, 1879

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by Jim Bender

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themselves. Talks of a new digital membership went well and was received well by all board members. The future like it or not is headed more and more in to the digital world. The internet has just plain changed the way we all live. Does that mean the end of the printed magazine?

No not in the near future. Most of our members love their magazine and as Ferdinand Meyer FOHBC President said, ”we will all know when it is time to drop the magazine but it is not now”. There are just so many good things ahead for the FOHBC. The Virtual Museum work is still going forward. This is a monster task and when virtual doors open you won’t want to miss it. As with anything, your donations speed up the process. The announcement of two more guys to join the board was welcomed by all current board members. Andrew Vuono of Connecticut will take over the

Northeast Director position as Ed Kuskie moves on. Matt Lacy of Ohio will take over the Midwest Director position as Randee Kaiser leaves the board. Both of these young fellows bring great ideas to the board. The mixture of young and old can only mean good things for the FOHBC. The FOHBC had a great table set up at the show. We gained more members as we do every year at the show. The 2013 Win the Flask Campaign drawing was held at the annual meeting and out of the 258 new members in 2013 Chris Malerba of Middle Island New York was the winner of the ½ pint Eagle Cornucopia beaded Pittsburgh flask donated

by Jim Bender FOHBC Membership Director. Chris was at the show and picked up his new prize.

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tables filled with every kind of bottle one would want.

Over 90% of the tables were just bottles by my best guess.

A lot of shows have had to open up to other collectables to fill their tables. Baltimore has been lucky enough not to have to do that. I learned that 255 dealers were there and just over 300 sales tables had been sold. Attendance each year is right around 1300 paid admissions. There are always a handful of great displays at the show. I am sure they limit the number of displays to make room for more sales tables.

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Gary Katzen won the best of show with his fantastic collection of Milk Glass bottles. One asks themselves how do they pull this off? The answer is plain and simple, hard work by a lot of volunteers. People like these are what keeps our hobby alive and well. Shows are the back bone of our hobby and always will be no matter what the internet brings us. Seeing friends , shaking hands, telling jokes and touching bottles can only be done at a show.

Next to the two and three day events put on the FOHBC this is as good as it gets folks. Next March when you get the winter blues, pack your bags and head off to Baltimore.

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A Birthday Celebration for the Ages: Privy Digging in Baltimore

Left to Right: Peter Rydquist, Scott and Ben Gordon, Dodd Delph, Mike Cianciosie, Dan Marks.

Not Shown: Andy Goldfrank, Al and Jason Miller

By Mike Cianciosie

This article first appeared in the May 2013 issue of the Potomac Pontil (the newsletter for the Potomac Bottle Collectors club of the Washington DC area), which is available online at potomacbottlecollectors.org.

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I went on my first bottle dig and since then I’ve been on a few dozen digs. All of my digs have focused on dumps, mostly filled with post-1900 bottles. Although I’ve always wanted to dig an old privy, the opportunity had never been presented to me. However, that changed when I got an e-mail invitation from club member Scott Gordon to take part in a privy dig to help him celebrate his birthday.

Scott had obtained permission to dig in the back yard of an early 1800s rowhouse in Baltimore’s historic Fell’s Point. Not only had he arranged for the dig to happen on his birthday, Scott also generously invited some fellow club members and his family. What a deal this was – it was Scott’s birthday, yet he was giving his friends and family gifts in the form of invites to a privy dig. Frankly, it was apparent that Scott was delighted to share his good fortune because every email he sent closed with: “Thank you for helping make my birthday wish come true.” Scott’s only disappointment was that the yard was just too small to invite the entire Potomac Bottle Club.

In any case, I was thrilled to be invited. Not only was I going to have a chance to dig a privy, but I was going to have a chance to work with some of the experienced diggers from our club, such as Andy Goldfrank and Dodd Delph, who bring to club meetings amazing bottles that they’ve found along with the corollary amazing digging stories. In addition, I would get to dig with the knowledgeable Peter Rydquist and possibly Al Miller (with his son Jason depending on the weather and possible littleleague conflicts). I knew there was a lot I could learn from these guys.

After a few rounds of e-mails among club members, it looked like we were going to have eight people involved including Scott’s son Ben and his son-in-law Dan Marks.

From the outset, it was apparent why Scott had tagged Andy as our crew chief. Andy wrote:

“Invitation was extended graciously by the incomparable Mr. Gordon, but price of admission is that you must bring compound buckets; alternatively, if you do not have & it will fit in your car, a rubber trash can or two will work.

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Andy also mentioned that we might need an additional sifter to sift through the dirt to find smaller artifacts. I wanted to be a contributor, so I set off to build a sifter.

With no experience on such things, I searched the www. antique-bottles.net forums for an example of a sifter and built one to match what I saw in the photo. To make a long story short, when I got to the dig, we already had two sifters and mine was not really needed. In addition, mine was smaller than the other two yet it was heavier. I live and learn.

My first impressions, as I rolled over the cobble stone streets of Fell’s Point, were excitement about finally going on a privy dig and a deep appreciation of this historic community. Pulling up to the address Scott provided to me, sitting in front of me on a tight street was a beautiful, red brick, narrow 1800s rowhouse – typical of Baltimore – graced with a tasteful wood door, ancient windows and accompanied on the side with an arched opening that allowed access through a covered walkway to the rear yard. As I unloaded my equipment and brought it through the passage to the rear yard, I just did not know what to expect.

When I finally got into the backyard of this ancient house, I could see that there were two indentations on each side of the yard filled with a layer of dirt and leaves in the small brick patio covering the tiny backyard. Remarkably, the rowhouse was built to within 8 feet of the back wall of the yard and yet this area was filled with half a dozen bushes, a koy pond and an 18 foot tall pine tree within two raised beds. Although it appeared that locating the privies was a done deal, as the privy gurus all agreed the indentations were caused by dirt settling in the old outhouse pits, there was a lot of work to be done before we could even start shoveling in the telltale sinks. The back yard was small, about 15 feet wide by 10 feet deep, with a bay window from the house projecting into the yard. Digging here was going to be a challenge.

I breathed a sigh of relief upon learning that the homeowner, Jacquie Greff, was excited about the idea of her yard being taken apart in anticipation of having a fresh canvas for new landscaping. In addition, Jacquie is the executive producer of a web-based video broadcasting group that hosts a monthly series focused on Fell’s Point called “History at Risk.” (See http://www.fellspoint.us/ History-at-Risk/.) Jacquie and the creative director Frank Tybush hoped to feature our privy digging efforts in

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have been extremely cramped for space. In the adjacent yard, we were able to put the cuttings from the bushes and pine tree, all of the topsoil to be put back into plant beds, as well as the bricks from the patio. In the remaining space we also threw down tarps in anticipation of using this area to sift and store all the dirt that came out of the privies.

The only probing we needed to do was to determine the outline and edges of the privies. They were both wood-lined, about 4 feet by 4 feet square, and located on opposite sides of the yard. We started in earnest on the privy that was closest to the walkway into the backyard from the street.

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anepisode and to use Jacquie’s backyard as the stage for this broadcast.

The first thing we had to do was clear out the back yard.

We moved the fish pond, cut down the pine tree, pulled up the (not so little) bushes, removed the brick patio and the built-up plant beds. Fortunately, we had permission to use the adjacent back yard next door; otherwise we would

Tripod with 12 foot legs

One of the first things I learned was that there were a lot of logistics involved, especially when you have so many diggers in a small area. You have to keep everybody busy and keep things moving. We wanted to dig two privies and be finished well before sundown. Andy did an excellent job of coordinating and keeping things progressing. Andy, Dodd and Peter were in Jacquie’s backyard doing the initial probing and digging. The rest of us were in the adjacent yard, sifting literally every bucket of dirt through two sifters, each manned by a pair of diggers. The reason we sifted all of the excavated dirt from the start (as opposed to only sifting the dirt from the “use” layer that is deeper in the privy), was partly because we had available people but also because we found a 1901 Indian Head penny in the surface dirt and we didn’t want to miss out on any artifacts.

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good sign. We also found a few bottle shards including bottoms with pontil scars. Nobody else seemed excited about these discoveries, but I had never dug a pontiled bottle before so I was getting psyched. We found some other interesting small items: a domino made of ivory and ebony; a number of pyramid-shaped items that I was told were used in pottery kilns during the firing to separate the pottery vessels from each other and the walls of the kiln and what I surmised was a coin or two. Interestingly, I learned that a copper coin found in a privy looks like a disk-shaped blob of soft green gunk and a silver coin is a little more discernible; however, if upon finding you try to rub some of the gunk off to read the date you will actually rub off the face of the coin. You have to leave the coin in its gunky state and let it dry out before making any attempt to clean it. That’s but one of the many privy-digging lessons I learned on this dig.

As the hole got bigger, the tripod went up. I had heard about using a tripod before, but I had no idea said tripod was so huge. The three poles that held it up were each about 12 feet long! The tripod sits above the hole and holds a pulley through which a rope is drawn. The digger in the hole fills a 5-gallon bucket with dirt, a digger sitting beside the hole uses the rope and pulley to pull up the bucket, and a third guy replaces the full bucket with an empty one, then carries the full bucket over to the sifters.

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we started working like a well-oiled machine.

Andy and Dodd worked through the cap layers of the privy – I learned that the cap layers were what was tossed in after the privy was no longer used and needed to be filled. Apparently we were in search of the “use” or night soil layer – long since turned into loamy dirt – that is often artifact rich and tells the story of the owners of the house or uses of a business establishment. After the hole got to about four feet deep, Dodd and Andy announced that we were finally getting into the “use” layer, where all the bottles would be found; that is, assuming there were any bottles at all. In fact, I was reminded all morning (and as had been often told at bottle club meetings and in many of the articles written by experienced privy diggers), in Baltimore, most privies have few if any intact bottles of note – in other words, there were no guarantees we would find a single bottle. Nonetheless, once we got to the “use” layer, because I was the only member of the team who had never actually been in a privy, Scott graciously gave me the honor of being the first one to scratch around in the use layer.

I jumped into the hole with Dodd there to coach me.

The digging up until that point was primarily done with a shovel but now all the exploration would be with a wooden digging stick so as not to scratch any bottles. This stick is literally a shortened and sharpened broom handle that Two sifters in action

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is used much like rowing a paddle. For obvious reasons, I could have stayed in there all day exploring this layer but Dodd was there to show me how to keep things moving –using the stick to locate the artifacts, but all the while filling the bucket with the fluff after I explored an area to keep the dirt flowing out of the pit. I quickly located a bottle – a 12-sided 6” tall aqua bottle with a slightly damaged flared lip. It was unembossed but it had a glass pontil scar. For the first time in my life, I had dug a pontiled bottle! The digging crew paused to take my photo in the hole, holding up the bottle. In short order I found another similar bottle although this one had no damage at all, not even to the fragile flared lip. Next I pulled up a heavy crystal tumbler – a clear drinking glass with a fancy pattern of protruding glass squares – that was intact. I knew it was a good one when Dodd seemed surprised – he said tumblers are not uncommon but they are almost always broken – whereas this one was completely undamaged. Why anyone would have thrown this tumbler away over 160 years ago is a mystery. Next my wooden stick made a squeak as it hit a larger, heavier bottle – it was a colored soda. I was nervous and it took me a while to fully unearth it. Pulling the bottle from the Scott pulls out a winner

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ground, I was a bit disappointed that the top was missing but nonetheless still excited to see that it had an iron pontil scar. It was green, and embossed “P. BABB / BALTo”.

Not knowing if anything else remained in the use layer and not wanting to hog all of this precious digging opportunity, at this point I got out of the hole to give others a chance.

Andy remembers saying to me at that moment – although I was so excited my recollection is less than perfect – that we already had more perfect pontiled bottles from this hole and more sodas (broken or whole) than from his last 10 (!) Baltimore privy digs.

Over the course of the next hour or so, everyone else took their turn in the privy exploring what turned out to be a use layer that undulated beneath a layer of pottery shards from a depth of 12 inches to almost 18 inches. During this time, I rotated back to sifting responsibilities. Periodically, I was interrupted by laughing and shouts of joy. I knew the bottles being recovered were extra special when even the privy gurus were impressed. Our finds included Baltimore sodas known as tenpins and torpedoes, of which Andy had never excavated an undamaged example. To say he was excited would be an understatement – and that was felt by all, experienced digger or not.

As is listed below, we recovered 10 intact examples of Baltimore sodas – six tenpins and torpedoes plus four traditional style squats – and another half a dozen damaged sodas including a salvageable embossed torpedo. According to Andy, this is pretty unusual in Baltimore because the privy dippers (or privy cleaners) removed many of these bottles back in the 19th Century. In addition, most local soda bottles were regularly returned to the bottler for recovery of the deposit (usually a cent or two) until they were broken when they ended up getting thrown away. Often the local soda bottles in a privy are damaged while the out-oftown bottles will be in pristine shape, because there was no financial incentive to return a bottle from out-of-town and people just threw them down the privy. Not so in this privy – although we dug a fair number of broken bottles, the privy dippers were not able to penetrate a thick layer of pottery and many of the local Baltimore bottles were completely intact. Andy also surmised, after doing Andy in his natural habitat

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map research with Baltimore bottle guru Chris Rowell, that this block in the 1840s and 1850s was replete with saloons, boarding houses, and houses of ill repute. Such establishments were often filled with sailors, railroad men (from the B&O line) and other transient folks for whom return on deposit for a soda bottle was the last item on their minds – they were in these tawdry Fell’s Point establishments to satisfy, shall we say, other needs.

We finished the first privy, which bottomed out at about five and a half feet. Andy, Dodd and Peter estimated this privy was active from the 1840s to the 1870s, with the bulk of our finds dating to the 1840s and into the early 1850s.

At this point, we paused so that the homeowner/producer Jacquie and creative director Frank could interview Andy on camera about our efforts. Frank interviewed Andy about what we were doing, and Andy did a great job of describing what privy digging was all about – explaining the history being collected through the recovery of these bottles and the other artifacts, talking about the contributions by bottle collectors to the historical record and our understanding of the past, and even tying in some historical context to the very privy we had just finished excavating. Perhaps one of the interesting discussions was when Andy explained that the return on investment for privy digging is not so great – one really has to just want to hang out with friends, be willing to get dirty, and have a passion for shards and sherds – because although fantastic

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bottles and other artifacts are dug on occasion, mundane bottles are more the norm.

After the filming, we went to work on the second privy.

This was a little bit easier, because we could throw the cap dirt, which was actually heavy, sterile clay, from this second privy into the first privy hole. The rest of the dirt was sifted into the first privy hole, but we only had one sifter going so the small sifting team was having trouble keeping up with the larger digging team.

About this time our eighth and ninth diggers showed up – Torpedos and tenpins

Al Miller and his indefatigable son. His son was (beyond) excited to be there; Jason wanted to immediately jump into the hole and start digging. The second hole was only about two feet deep at this point, and there were some paper and plastic scraps that were identified as a rat’s nest.

Apparently, rats had dug holes into this area and brought trash down into the holes to make their nests. Al’s son had some fun exploring, but then we moved him to the sifting team to make room for the speed diggers because we were concerned about not finishing the dig before dark. As a member of the sifting crew, Jason helped us identify marbles, coins, pottery sherds, and other relics.

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Incidentally, everything we found through sifting went into a shard bucket, and we kept the shards from this second privy separate from the shards in the first privy.

The diggers quickly ran into a large cast iron pipe in this hole. Dodd explained that at some point after 1900 or so, the owners had converted the outhouse from a hole in the ground to one with a piped toilet; thus, for a period of time, the occupants still went into the backyard to use a bathroom which was in turn hard piped to the street sewers. The pipe was no longer in use; therefore, we removed it by breaking it apart with a sledge hammer.

Unfortunately, this second privy didn’t prove to be very fruitful for bottles or just about anything. Near the cast iron pipe, we found a (very familiar) screwtop bottle embossed “VASELINE / CHESEBROUGH / NEW YORK” dating from well after 1900. (This would turn out to be the only bottle in this second pit.) Working hard sifting the many buckets being pulled, all we found were some small items such as a small grouping of marbles and the contents of a lost change purse. The best item was a 1901 Barber half dollar in excellent albeit blackened condition. This hole was about six and a half feet deep. Andy and Dodd probed through the sides of this privy to see if there were any other privies in the yard. Much like a Laurel and Hardy routine, they went back

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and forth a few times between “yes, we found another one” and “nope, there’s nothing here.” At the very end, Andy did manage to excavate the bottom portion of a privy from the yard next door that had been previously dug and partially impacted by construction of a brick wall.

In this little bit of layer, he extracted a redware flower pot base covered with small dots of yellow slip. It turned out that Peter had the match to this pot from a dig in the neighboring yard he had participated in many years before.

Now we had to do the strenuous task of filling the second privy hole using the enormous pile of dirt from our sifting efforts in the neighboring yard. Simply stated, this was a tremendous amount of hard work at the end of the day when we were all tired but thankfully we had the large crew – Jason included. Moreover, having the tarps under the dirt helped out when we got to the last few hundred pounds of dirt and allowed us to leave the neighboring yard in excellent shape. Eventually, we got all the dirt into the holes and leveled out Jacquie’s yard in preparation for her new landscape plan.

Now came the fun part of divvying up the bottles. Scott the birthday boy had first pick and then it was supposed

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to be dig-director Andy; however, he managed to insure everyone got a great bottle and a nice grouping of other items. Somehow he picked toward the end and yet everyone walked away happy from the dig. Perhaps this was because we had enough examples of stellar Baltimore soda bottles and unusual finds – embossed and unembossed -- so that everybody walked away with a fantastic piece of history. On the other hand, it may have just been that everyone was there to celebrate Scott’s birthday and the finds were just a bonus. Regardless, I’m pretty sure we all went away happy – I know I did. My first privy dig experience was a great one – although now I’m a little spoiled because I’m not sure another dig could ever match this one. Most importantly, I would like to thank Scott, as well as the rest of the gang, for inviting me and everyone else on this dig and allowing us the opportunity to share in this history making dig. I’d also like to thank Andy, for the help he gave me with writing this article, making me sound articulate.

Finished video is available at http://www.fellspoint.us/ History-at-Risk/ or on YouTube at http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=5T22LU4K1oo.

Here is a list of items recovered (with thanks to Chris

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Rowell for providing the estimated dates): Intact Baltimore Soda bottles (embossed & unembossed) 2X “C.A. COLE / COLE & CO. / C.F. BROWN//BALTIMORE/ No. 118/NORTH HOWARD St.” green tenpin, iron pontil [c.

1850-1851] 2X “McKAY & CLARK//No. 130 FRANKLIN ST./ BALT.” green tenpin, iron pontil [c. 1850-October 20th 1853] “Wm. RUSSELL” light green torpedo [c. 1847-1850s] aqua unembossed torpedo [c. 1840s] “Wm RUSSELL” 7” green soda, iron pontil [c. 1847-1850s] “P. BABB / BALTo” green soda, iron pontil [c. 1851-1857] “W. COUGHLAN / BALTIMORE”, yellow green porter, iron pontil, torpedo lip [c. 1845-1850] unembossed porter, double tapered lip, early iron pontil Broken Baltimore Soda bottles “P. BABB / BALTo” green porter [top missing] [c. 18511857] “C.A. COLE/ BOTTLER No. 118/N. HOWARD/BALT.” yellow amber porter [about 40% missing] [c. 1849-1850] “Wm RUSSELL” green torpedo, repairable broken top [c.

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ornate cologne, glass pontil scar, aqua, about 5” rectangular/paneled, snap-case, aqua, about 6” 12-sided, glass pontil scar, aqua, 5” 12-sided, glass pontil scar, aqua, about 7” 12-sided, glass pontil scar, aqua, about 4.5” 12-sided, glass pontil scar, aqua, 3” (2X) puff, glass pontil scar, aqua, about 3” puff, glass pontil scar, aqua, 2.5” Non-bottles Tumbler, about 4” with protruding square nubs, clear glass Tumbler, about 3”, 6-sided base, clear glass Ceramic cups, green spongeware pattern [95% intact] Circa 1790s-1810s redware flower pot Smalls clay pipes & pipe stems marbles mostly large shooters (ceramic & glass) ivory domino with ebony backing pyramid shaped kiln furniture Ivory tool handle Metal ball (probably grape shot from a cannon) Barber Half Dollar, 6 Indian Head Pennies (1880 through 1901), 4 large cents (no dates)

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FOR SALE: Gamer & Jacky, Phillipsburg, Mon, aqua hutch $60; Kalispell Malting and Brewing, Kalispell, Mont, aqua hutch $75; Fairbury Bottling Works, Fairbury, Ill, aqua hutch $60; Pacific & Puget Sound Bottling Works, Seattle, Wash, beautiful, whittled, early tooled, dark aqua, crown $50; San Francisco Soda Works, beautiful crude, bubbles, ash specks, aqua, early tooled crown $50;Whittemore Boston A.S.mispelled, U.S.A., aqua $35; Wild Oak Dairy, Camp Meeker, Calif. Clear, clean, quart milk $50;Label only, Dr. Ordways Celebtated Pain Destroyer, 12 sided, pontiled, rolled lip, aqua, mint $80; Mrs Nettie Harrison America’s Beauty Doctor, Manufacturer of Fine Cosmetics and Perfumery, San Francisco, Cal. Amber tooled square collar, about mint $25.

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FOHBC MeMBersHip DireCtOry 17 Members gained this period. The names below represent persons agreeing to be listed in the printed membership directory.

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CHanges Jay Hargy 97 Middleton Road Wolfeboro, NH 03894 jayhargy@gmail.com What I dig up.

Marc Lutsko Last Chance Antiques Unit # 7091, 2300 N. Harris Street Helena, MT 59604-7091 406-422-4690 letsgo@montanasky.net Owl Drug Co. and Montana bottles and related items. Small oval embossed & labeled pill bottles. Gillett Extract & Old Judge Coffee bottles & related items.

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Calendar of shows and related events FOHBC Sho - Biz is published in the interest of the hobby. Federation affiliated clubs are connotated with FOHBC logo.

Information on up-coming collecting events is welcome, but space is limited. Please send at least three months in advance, including telephone number to: FOHBC Sho-Biz, C/O Alan DeMaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077 or e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net Show schedules are subject to change. Please call before traveling long distances. All listings published here will also be published on the website: FOHBC.org

May 3 Gray, Tennessee 16th Annual The State of Franklin Antique Bottles & Collectibles Show at the Farm & Home Building, Appalachian Fairgrounds, Gray, Tennessee, from I-26, Exit 13, Saturday 9:00 am until 3:00 pm, No Early admission, Set up: Saturday 7:00 am until 9:00 am, Free Admission, State of Franklin Antique Bottles & Collectibles Association, Contact: Carl Bailey, Show Chairman, 3803 Deepwood Drive, Johnson City, Tennessee 37601, 423.282.3119 May 3 & 4 Queensland, Australia 2014 State Antique Bottle & Collectables Show at Caloundra Indoor Sports Stadium, North St, Caloundra, QLD. Australia, General Admission: Saturday, May 3rd 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, General Admission: Sunday, May 4th 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Set up: Friday, May 2nd 2:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Cost of admission: $8 Adults – Children Free, Sunshine Coast Antique and Collectables Club, Visit on Facebook Contact: Lynn Foster, Club Secutary, Phone: +61 (0)75494 1106, coastalsigns@ pacifictelco.com.au May 4 Antioch, Illinois Antique Bottle Club of Northern Illinois 39th Annual Antiques, Bottles & Collectibles Show & Sale at the Antioch Senior Center, 817 Holbeck, Antioch, Illinois 60002, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, No Early admission. Set-up not given. Free admission. Club: Antique Bottle Club of Northern Illinois. Contact: John Puzzo, Phone: 815.338.7582, johnpuzzo@ sbcglobal.net May 4 Utica, New york Mohawk Valley Antique Bottle Club’s 20th Annual Antique Bottle Show & Sale, 9:00 am – 2:30 pm. at the Sons of Italy Lodge, 644 Bleeker Street, Utica, New York 13501, Contact: Peter Bleiberg, 7 White Pine Road, New Hartford, New York, 315.735.5430, pmbleiberg@aol.com

May 10 Mansfield, Ohio The Ohio Bottle Club’s 36th Mansfield Antique Bottle & Advertising Show & Sale, Richland County Fairgrounds, Trimble Road Exit, U.S. Route 30, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Donation: $3, Dealer set-up, Friday, May 9, 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm, Early Admission $25 during Dealer set-up. Contact: Bill Koster, 330.599.3380, Info: Ohio Bottle Club, P.O. Box 585, Barberton, Ohio 44203, www. ohiobottleclub.org May 16 & 17 Kent Washington The Washington Bottle and Collectors’ Association’s Annual Spring Antique Bottle, Insulator & Collectibles Show & Sale at Kent Commons, 525 4th Avenue N., Kent Washington. Friday, 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, $5 early bird admission.

Saturday, 9:00 am -3:00 pm, Free admission. Dealer setup noon on Friday.

Information: The Washington Bottle and Collectors’ Association, Contact: Niel Smith – 206.783.0215, wbcaweb@gmail. com, or Pete Hendricks, 253.335.1732, www.wbcaweb.org

Russell Brown, Phone: 850.520.4250.

E-mail: abrown2@panhandle.rr.com or Roy Brown, PO Box 301, Freeport, Florida 32439. Phone 850.835.2327. E-mail: bgb301@aol.com May 17 Lake City, Florida Florida Antique Bottle Collectors 1st Annual Bottle & Tabletop Collectibles Show & Sale NEW SHOW!! Saturday, 8:00 am – 3:00 pm. Dealer set-up Friday, May 16. Watch our upcoming ads for additional information! Show Address: Columbia County Fairgrounds, Lake City, FLorida – easy access from both I-10 and I-75. Contact: Brian Boblick, 386.804.9635, hoblick@aol.com May 18 Washington, Pennsylvania 40th Annual Washington County Antique Bottle & Glass Club Bottle Show & Sale at the Alpine Star Lodge, 735 Jefferson Avenue, Washington, Pennsylvania 15301, Admission: $3, Contact: Ed Kuskie, 352 Pineview Drive, Elizabeth, Pennsylvania 15037, 412.405.9061, bottle wizard@comcast.net

May 16 & 17 Columbia City, Indiana Columbia City Indiana Collectibles Show, 581 Squabuck Road, Columbia City, Indiana 46725, Show Times: Friday, 3:00 – 5:00 pm, Saturday 8:00 am – 3:00 pm, Free Admission, Set-up: Friday, noon – 3:00 pm, Saturday 6:00 am – 8:00 am, Contact: Gene Hawkins, 3847 North Prairie Street, Warsaw, Indiana 46582, 574.377.0171, gene.hawkins@mchsi.com

May 18 Coventry, Connecticut The Museum of Connecticut Glass 10th Annual Outdoor Bottle and Glass Show at the Museum of Connecticut Glass, Route 44 & North River Road, Coventry, Connecticut, Including Exhibits and Tours, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm, early buyers 8:00 am., Contact: Noel Tomas, 27 Plank Lane, Glastonbury, Connecticut 06033-2523, 860.633.2944, isamot@cox.net, www. glassmuseum.org

May 17 DeFuniak Springs, Florida The Emerald Coast Bottle Collector’s Inc, 13th Annual Show & Sale, will be held on Saturday, 17 May from 7:00 am to 4:00 pm at the DeFuniak Springs Community Center, 361 N. 10th Street, DeFuniak Springs, Florida 32433. Free Admission and Bottle Appraisals. Dealer Set-up is Friday, 16 May from 3:00 to 9:00 pm and Saturday 6:00 to 7:00 am. Contact:

May 24 Richmond, Rhode Island The Little Rhody Bottle Club Tailgate Swap Meet, (9:00 am to 3:00 pm) at the Jules Antique Center, 320 Kingstown Road, Richmond, Rhode Island, (3 miles East of Route #95 on Route #138). Free set up for members and nonmembers. Free coffee, donuts, and pizza for participants.

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(More) Sho-Biz May 29 – 31 Grantville (Hershey) Pennsylvania – 34th Annual Convention of the National Association of Milk Bottle Collectors (NAMBC) at the Holiday Inn, Grantville (Hershey), Pennsylvania (at the junction of Interstates 80 and 81). Info: www.milkbottlescollectors.com May 30 & 31 Butte, Montana Montana Bottle Collectors Association 2014 Old Bottles, Antiques and Collectibles Show & Sale, Butte Civic Center Annex 1340 Harrison Avenue , Set up: Friday 30 May at 3:00 pm, but may not be unpacked and displayed prior to 4:00 pm. Early Birds: Friday, 30 May 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm; $5 and covers both days. General Admission: Saturday, 31 May, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm. $3. Info: James Campiglia, Show Chairman, 406.219.3293 or 805.689.0125, E-mail: jameschips@ bresnan.net or Erich Weber, Secretary/ Treasurer, 406.227.8154 or 406.439.0563 May 31 - June 1 Santa Rosa, California 48th Northwestern Bottle Collectors Association Show & Sale at the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building, 1351 Maple Avenue, Santa Rosa, California 95404, Show Times: Saturday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Sunday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, No early admission. This year’s show is going to be better than ever for both dealers and shoppers. There will be two other well attended events going on at the same time, the “Famers Market” on Saturday and the “Collectors Flea Market” on Sunday, all at the same location. Appreciation Pizza Party Saturday night at the Santa Rosa “Union Hotel” for all dealers! General admission $3, www.oldwestbottles.com, Contact: Lou Lambert, Show Chairman Po Box 322, Graton, California 95444, 707.823.8845, lou@oldwestbottles. com, Northwestern Bottle Collectors Association June 7 Ballston Spa, New york Annual Saratoga Bottle Show at Ballston Spa High School, 220 Ballston Avenue, Ballston Spa, New York 12020, Saturday, 9:00 am to 2:30 pm, No Early

Admission, Set-up: Friday, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm and Saturday, 7:00 am to 9:00 am. Admission: $3 adult, $1 child under 12, National Bottle Museum, www. nationalbottlemuseum.org, Contact: Roy Topka, chairperson, 380 Farm to Market Road, Clifton Park, New York 12065, rmt556@Yahoo.com and Rick DeMarsh, Co-Chairman, Promotion & Displays, Admin@ricksbottleroom.com, Tele: NBM, 518.885.7589, e-mail: NBM: nbm@nycap.rr.com June 7 Raleigh, North Carolina The 10th Annual Raleigh Antique Bottle and Collectibles Show at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds, Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh North Carolina 27612, Set-up: 7:00 am to 8:00 am, $3 Admission, Raleigh Bottle Club, Raleighbottleclub.org, Contact: Whitt Stallings, Show Chairperson, 4826 Brookhaven Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina 27612, 919.781.6339, whittstall@yahoo. com, The Raleigh Antique Bottle and Collectibles Club June 14 San Diego, California San Diego 2014 Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale, Saturday June 14 at Al Bahr Shrine Temple, 5440 Kerney Mesa Road, San Diego, California 92111, General Admission: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm $2, Free Admission: Noon – 3:00 pm, Early Bird 8:00 am – $10, Kids under 12 free with adult, Mike Bryant, Show Chairman, Info: Jim Walker 858.490.9019, jaw@ internettewr.com, www.sdbottleclub.org June 14 Smyrna, Georgia The 44th Annual Atlanta Antique Bottle Show & Sale, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, early buyers 6:00 am at the Smyrna Community Center, 200 Village Green Circle, Smyrna, Georgia, Contact: Jack Hewitt, 1765 Potomac Court, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30043, 770.963.0220 or John Joiner, 770.502.9565, propjj@bellsouth.net June 21 Tallahassee, Florida 8th Annual Tallahassee Antique Bottle Show & Sale at the North Florida Fairgrounds, 441 Paul Russell Road,

Tallahassee, Florida 32301, Saturday, 21 June 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Early admission, Friday, 20 June, 3:00 pm, Dealer set up – Friday, 20 June beginning at noon; Saturday, 21 June before the show, $3 admission; early admission on Friday is $15 and includes a dinner, www. floridabottles.com, Contact: Britt Keen, 1140 Renae Way, Tallahassee, Florida 850.294.5537, britt_keen@hotmail.com June 21 Tulsa, Oklahoma The Tulsa Antiques and Bottle Club 37th Annual Bottle and 6th Annual Antique Advertising Show from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Tulsa Flea Market in the Expo Center (right behind the Golden Driller), Tulsa Fairgrounds, 21st Street and Pittsburgh Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Free admission, No early buyers. Dealer setup Friday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm and Saturday from 6:00 am to 8:00 am.

200 show tables plus a 500 table flea market. Contact Richard Carr (a bottle guy) at 918.687.4150 or 918.478.6119 or Henry Tankersley (an advertising guy) at 918.481.3820 or 918.663.3218 or henry@ americanbanktulsa.com.

June 27 & 28 Reno, Nevada Reno Antique Bottle & Collectibles Club 51st Annual Show & Sale at the Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 East Second Street, Nevada Conference and Exposition Center, Free Admission, Saturday Show: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, Friday Dealer set-up: 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, Friday Early Bird: 9:30 am to 4:00 pm – $15, Contracts: Helene Walker, 775.345.0171, Information: Marty Hall, rosemuley@att.net July 3 - 6 Farmington, New Mexico 45th Annual National Insulator Associations Convention & Show. The National Insulator Association is proud to announce that their 2014 National Show & Convention will be held at the McGee Park Convention Center, 41 Road 5568, Farmington, New Mexico, July 3rd through the 6th. Thursday , 3 July, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm (NIA members only), Friday 4th – 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, Saturday 5th – 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, Sunday 6th – 8:00

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(More) Sho-Biz am – 1:00 pm, Early admission: For NIA members only Thursday July 3rd 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, Set-up: The 3rd 7:00 am – 9:00 am, 4th from 8:00 am – 9:00 am, the 5th from 8:00 am to 9:00 am and the 6th from 8:00 am to 9:00 am., Free Admission to All. NIA.org, contact: Michele Kotlarsky, Information Director, 147 Cherokee Road, Pontiac, Michigan 48341-2000, 248-4208650, information@nia.org Your show host, Tommy Bolack, will offer tours of the B-Square Ranch and personally host an Independence Day fireworks extravaganza open to all NIA Members!

July 5 & 6 yorkshire, England 24th UK Summer National, Elsecar Heritage Centre, S Yorks, 1 hr Manchester airport. Britains LARGEST annual Show – the 24th UK Summer National. 40,000 sq ft of inside & outside stalls. Saturday doors 9:00 am- 4:00 pm. Sunday – stalls plus major cat’d auction. Weekend pass 8.30 am £10. Alan Blakeman, BBR Elsecar Heritage Centre, Nr Barnsley, S Yorks, England, S74 8HJ Visit Website July 12 Leadville, Colorado Antique Bottle Collectors of Colorado Show and Sale, 40+ Years, 10th Annual Show in Leadville, Colorado, National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum Convention Center, 114 10th Street, Leadville, Colorado 80461, One Day Show, Saturday 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, No Early Admission except for Displayers and Dealers. Set-Up: Saturday, 6:00 am. Admission: $3, Antique Bottle Collectors Of Colorado Inc., www.

Antiquebottlecollectorsofcolorado. com, Contact: Jim and Barb Sundquist, Co-Chairs: ABCC Leadville Show 2014, Evergreen, Colorado 80439, 303.674.4658, Barbsund@msn.com July 12 Richmond, Rhode Island The Little Rhody Bottle Club Tailgate Swap Meet, (9:00 am to 3:00 pm) at the Jules Antique Center, 320 Kingstown Road, Richmond, Rhode Island, (3 miles East of Route #95 on Route #138). Free set up for members and nonmembers. Free

coffee, donuts, and pizza for participants.

Bring your own tables! Info: William Rose, 508.880.4929 July 19 Houston, Texas Antique Bottles, Advertising & Collectibles Show & Sale at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 12801 Northwest Freeway, Houston Texas 77040, Saturday: 8:30 am – 3:00 pm, Admission: Saturday – $4 per person, Early Admission – Friday, 18 July – 4:00 – 10:00 pm, $10 per person, For Show and Table information contact: Barbara J. Puckett, 907 W. Temple, Houston, Texas 77009, 713.862.1690 (home) or 713.409.9940 (cell), bpuckett77009@yahoo.com July 19 – 20 Adamstown, Pennsylvania The 14th Annual Shupp’s Grove Bottle Festival, Saturday & Sunday 6:00 am to dusk, early buyers Friday 3:00 pm, Show Address: the famous ‘Shupp’s Grove’, 1686 Dry Tavern Road, Denver, Pennsylvania 17517, Contact: Steve Guion, 717.626.5557, affinityinsurance@ dejazzd.com July 27 Altoona, Iowa The Iowa Antique Bottleers 45th Annual Antique Bottle & Collectibles Show and Sale, in conjunction with the Beer, Soda & Bottle Mega Show, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm, Meadows Events Center, Prairie Meadows Racetrack & Casino, Altoona, Iowa, I-80 Exit #142, Information: Jack LaBaume, 1401 South 15th Street, Fort Dodge, Iowa 50501, Tele. 515 269.3054 August 1 – 3 Lexington, Kentucky Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors presents the 2014 National Antique Bottle Show, at the Lexington Convention Center, 430 West Vine Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40507, 859.233.4567. Banquet is on Friday evening, 01 August 2014.

Lexington is a historic city (founded 1775) located at the cross-section of Interstate 64 and 75. Louisville, KY and Cincinnati,OH are just an hour away. Lexington has many area attractions including: Ashland (Henry

Clay’s Home), Mary Todd Lincoln’s House, Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill, and thoroughbred horse farms. Visit FOHBC. org. Sheldon Baugh and Randee Kaiser will be serving as co-show chairpersons.

Stay tuned for more information. FOHBC National Show August 11 – 17 Bouckville, New york 43rd Annual Madison-Bouckville Antique Show, Outdoor antiques, collectibles including two huge bottle tents. Over 2,000 dealers and vendors! Address: Scenic Route 20, Bouckville, New York, Contact: Larry Fox, 585.307.4608 or Jim Mitchell, 813.684.2834 August 17 Poughkeepsie, New york Hudson Valley Bottle Club 27th Annual Mid Hudson Bottle Show & Sale, 9:00 am – 2:30 pm, early buyers 8: 00 am, Show Address: Poughkeepsie Elks Lodge 275, 29 Overocker Road, Poughkeepsie, New York, Contact Info: Mike Stephano, 27 Rogers Road, Hyde Park, New York 12538, 845.233.4340, mjsantique@aol.com September 7 Pekin, Illinois Pekin Bottle Collectors Associations 45th Annual Show & Sale, 8:00 am to 3:00 pm, Knights of Columbus, 715 N. 11th Street, Pekin, Illinois, Contact: Jim Searle, 1003 Illinois Street, Pekin, Illinois 61554, 309.346.7804 or 309.202.9337 September 13 Downieville, California Downieville Bottle Show, Friday September 12th, 5:00 pm Dealer BBQ and Wine Tasting Event, Saturday, September 13th, Dealer set-up 7:00 am to 8:00 am, early lookers 8:00 am to 10:00 am, Free admission 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. There is a car show in Sierra City the same weekend as the bottle show and the motels are going to fill up really fast. If you are planning on staying here in the area I would recommend you get your motel reservations in early ( like in the next week or so as the Riverside is already half booked for that weekend)

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(More) Sho-Biz September 20 Santa Ana, California 48th Annual Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club Antique Bottle, Fruit Jar, Antiques & Collectibles Show & Sale at the Santa Ana Elks Lodge, 212 Elk Lane, Santa Ana, California 92701, Saturday, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Early Bird: 8:00 am, Setup at 6:00 am, Early bird cost $10, Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club, Contact: Don Wippert or Dick Homme, Don 818.346.9833 or Dick 818.362.3368, Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club September 28 Depew, New york 16th Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association Annual Show and Sale at the Polish Falcons Hall, 445 Columbia Avenue, Depew, New York 14043, Sunday, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm., Set-up: 7:00 am to 9:00 am. Tables $20/$10 for additional tables. Admission: $2; children under 12 free, Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association, gbbca.org, Contact: Joe Guerra, Secretary, 29 Nina Terrace, West Seneca, New York 14224, 716.674.5750, jguerra3@roadrunner.com September 28 Richfield, Ohio 44th Annual Ohio Bottle Club Antique Bottle Show and Sale at the Days Inn and Suites (formerly Holiday Inn), 4742 Brecksville Road, Richfield, Ohio, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Early admission: 7:30 am to 9:00 am, Set up: 7:30 am to 9:00 am, Cost of admission: $3 and early admission $20, Ohio Bottle Club, ohiobottleclub. org, Contact: John Fifer, Show chairman, 6820 Wooster Pike, Medina, Ohio 44256, 330.722.7017, lindaangel57@aol.com October 4 yorkshire, England BBR October Event, Elsecar Heritage Centre, S Yorks, 1 hr Manchester airport.

Saturday 3 Unreserved 500+ lot auction – doors 9:00 am, auction 11:00 am., Sunday 4 120+ stalls plus cataloged auction. Early entry: 8.30 am £5, General Admission: £2. Contact: Alan Blakeman, BBR Elsecar Heritage Centre, Nr Barnsley, S Yorks, England, S74 8HJ

October 5, Chelsea, Michigan The Huron Valley Bottle and Insulator Club will hold its Annual Show and Sale on Sunday October 5th at the Comfort Inn Conference Center (exit 159 off I-95) in Chelsea, Michigan. Hours are 9 am to 2 pm.

For more information contact: Mike Bruner at 248-425-3223 or Rod Krupka at 248-6276351. Or e-mail r.krupka@yahoo.com October 11 Coventry, Connecticut Keene weekend Saturday Show on the grounds of the historic Coventry Glass Works, 289 North River Road (intersection of Rt. 44 & North River Road), at the blinking light, Coventry, Connecticut 06238, Saturday 11 October, regular admission at 9:00 am ($4), show ends at 1:00 pm, Early buying at 8:00 am ($15), Set-up: Saturday, 11 October, 7:00 am opening time for exhibitors, Southern Connecticut Antique Bottle and Glass Collectors Association, Contact: Bruce Mitchell, 203.799.2570; Jim Megura, 203.922.5323, 203, jamlyn1@earthlink.net October 18 Richmond, Rhode Island The Little Rhody Bottle Club Tailgate Swap Meet, (9:00 am to 3:00 pm) at the Jules Antique Center, 320 Kingstown Road, Richmond, Rhode Island, (3 miles East of Route #95 on Route #138). Free set up for members and nonmembers. Free coffee, donuts, and pizza for participants.

Bring your own tables! Info: William Rose, 508.880.4929.

November 2 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Wisconsin Antique Advertising Club presents Antiques Under Glass at the Mitchell Park Domes, Over 150 unique vendors selling an array of antique bottles and one of a kind advertising collectibles. $40 a table for non-members, Club members $30. Dealer set-up: 6:00 am – 9:00 am. Show starts at 9:00 am. Info: steven@wisantique.com November 8 Jacksonville, Florida Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida 47th Annual Show & Sale at the

Fraternal Order of Police Building, 5530 Beach Boulevard, Jacksonville, Florida, Saturday, 8:00 am to 3:00 pm, Early admission: Friday, November 7, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm, Set-up: Friday, 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm, Free admission, Early buyers: $15, Club: Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida, Contact: Mike Skie, 3047 Julington Creek Road, Jacksonville, Florida 32223, Phone: Mike 904.710.0422 or Jackie McRae 904.879.3696 November 9 Pittsburg, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Antique Bottle Club Annual Bottle Show at Rostraver Ice Garden, Gallitin Road and Route 51 North, Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania 15012, Sunday 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Early admission: Sunday 7:00 am, Set up: Sunday 7:00 am. Cost of admission: $3 general admission, $25 early admission, Pittsburgh Antique Bottle Club, www.pittsburghantiquebottleclub. com, Contact: Bob DeCroo, Treasurer, 694 Fayette City Road, Fayette City, Pennsylvania 15438, 724.326.8741, eb153@atlanticbb.net November 30 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Forks of the Delaware Bottle Collectors Association 41st Annual Bottle and Antique Show & Sale at the Bethlehem Catholic High School, 2133 Madison Avenue, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18017, Sunday, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, $2 Admission, Dealer set up 6:00 am – 9:00 am, Information, Bill Hegedus, 20 Cambridge Place, Catasauqua, Pennsylvania 18032, 610.264.3130

August 2015 July 31 - 2 August Chattanooga, Tennessee Chattanooga has been selected for the 2015 FOHBC Southern Region National Antique Bottle Show. The show will be held at the Chattanooga Convention Center, Sunday August 2, with dealer set-up and early buyers on Saturday. The banquet/bottle competition, seminars, auction will be held at the Marriott. Jack Hewitt and John Joiner will be serving as show co-chairpersons. FOHBC National Show

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Membership Benefits The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors cordially invites you to join a dedicated group of individuals and clubs who collect, study and display the treasured glass and ceramic gems of yesteryear.

The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) is a non-profit organization supporting collectors of historical bottles, flasks, jars, and related items. The goal of the FOHBC is to promote the collection, study, preservation and display of historical bottles and related artifacts and to share this information with other collectors and individuals.

Federation membership is open to any individual or club interested in the enjoyment and study of antique bottles. The Federation publication, Bottles and Extras, is well known throughout the hobby world as the leading publication for those interested in bottles and “go-withs”. The magazine includes articles of historical interest, stories chronicling the hobby and the history of bottle collecting, digging stories, regional news, show reports, advertisements, show listings, and an auction directory. Bottles and Extras is truly the place to go when information is needed about this popular and growing hobby.

In addition to providing strength to a national/international organization devoted to the welfare of the hobby, your FOHBC membership benefits include: • A full year subscription the Federation’s official bi-monthly publication, Bottles and Extras • One free ad per yearly membership of 100 words for use for “wanted” items, trade of offers, etc.

• Eligibility for a discount at FOHBC sponsored shows (National or EXPOs) towards “early admission” or dealer table rent • Access to a knowledge of the world of antique bottle collecting unavailable elsewhere • Contact information for clubs devoted to the study of historical bottles • A forum for your writings, articles, and editorials regarding the hobby • Participation in the nomination and selection of Federation members for the Honor Roll and Hall of Fame • Federation-sponsored writing, show poster, and newsletter-design contests • Free publication assistance for your book or manuscript • And more...

We encourage Affiliated Bottle Club memberships by offering these additional benefits to your group: • Display advertising in Bottles and Extras at an increased discount of 50% • Insertion of your bottle club show ad on the Federation website to increase your show’s exposure • Links to your club website free of charge, as well as assistance with the creation of your website • Free Federation ribbon for Most Educational Display at your show • Slide programs for use at your club meetings • Participation in Federation sponsored insurance program for your club show and any other club sponsored activities Finally…

We need your support! Our continued existence is dependent upon your participation as well as expanding our membership. The Federation is the only national organization devoted to the enjoyment, study, preservation, collection, and display of historical bottles.

The FOHBC welcomes individuals who would like to contribute by running for Board positions or by sharing their expertise and volunteering their talents in other areas of interest such as contributions to our publications, assistance with the Federation’s National and EXPO shows, or through membership promotion.

If you haven’t yet joined our organization, please do so and begin reaping the benefits. If you are already a member, please encourage your friends and fellow collectors to JOIN US!!

For more information, questions, or to join the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, please contact:

Alan DeMaison 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077 phone: (H) (440)-358-1223, (C) (440)-796-7539 e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net or visit our home page on the web at FOHBC.org

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Bottles and Extras Individual and Affiliated Club Information

FOHBC Individual Membership Application For Membership, complete the following application or sign up at www.fohbc.org (Please Print) Do you wish to be listed in the printed membership directory? (name, address, phone number, email address and what you collect) { } Yes { } No

Name ____________________________ Address ____________________________ City _____________ State __________ Zip _____________ Country _______ Do you wish to be listed in the Telephone ___________________________ online membership directory?

Email Address ________________________ (name, address, phone number,

Bottles and Extras FREE ADS

Category: “WANTED” Maximum - 60 words Limit - One free ad per current membership year.

Category: “FOR SALE” Maximum - 100 words Limit - 1 ad per issue.

(Use extra paper if necessary.)

email address and what you collect)

Collecting Interests ____________________ { } Yes { } No ____________________________ ____________________________ Would you be interested in ____________________________ serving as an officer? {

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Addtional Comments __________________ Would you be interested ____________________________ in contributing your bottle

knowledge by writing articles for the Bottles and Extras? { } Yes { } No

Membership/Subscription rates for one year (6 issues) (Circle One)

United States - second class $30.00 - second class for three years $75.00 - first class $45.00

Canada - first class $50.00 Other countries - first class $65.00

(all first class sent in appropriate mailer) Add an Associate Membership* to any of the above at $5.00 for each associate for each year

Name(s) of Associate(s) _________________________ *Associate Membership is available to members of the immediate family of any adult holding an Individual Membership. Children of ages 21 or older must have their own individual membership. Associate(s) Members enjoy all of the right and privledges of an Individual Membership

Signature _________________________Date_______ Please make checks or money orders payable to FOHBC and mail to: FOHBC Membership, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville OH 44077 Effective 9/2011

Affiliated Club Membership for only $75.00 with liability insurance for all club sponsored events, 50% discount on advertising in the Bottles and Extras, plus much more, Contact: Alan DeMaison, FOHBC Business Manager 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville OH 44077 (440)-358-1223 or a.demaison@sbcglobal.net

Clearly Print or Type your Ad Send to: Alan DeMaison FOHBC Business Manager 1605 Clipper Cove Painesville, OH 44077 or better yet, email Alan at: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net

Article Submission Requirements: All Bottles and Extras articles or material need to be submitted on CD (preferable) or an email using a compressed (zipped) file. The file must be created by Microsoft Word, Publisher or Adobe N-Design so the editor does not have to retype the work. High-resolution digital images are our preferred format. Please submit digital images on a CD according to the instructions below. We will accept e-mail submissions only if the image resolution is acceptable. The e-mail or CDs must have only ONE subject per transmission to minimize confusion. Each image must be accompanied by a caption list or other identifying information. Professionalgrade equipment is a must to achieve the size and quality image we require. The highest setting on the camera should be used for maximum resolution and file size. Only high quality images will be considered. Please do not send photographic prints or scans of images—the color and quality are generally not up to par compared with digital images or slides scanned by our imaging department. We will consider exceptions for photos that can’t be easily found, such as older historical images.

We rarely use slides anymore and prefer not to receive submissions of slides due to the time and liability involved in handling them.

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Hecklers Sells The Best Sunburst Snuff Jar - $57,330

Now accepting consignments for our 2014 auction schedule Pictured Left: Sunburst Snuff Jar, medium to deep yellowish olive green, Keene Marlboro Street Glassworks, Keene, New Hampshire, 1815-1830.

Ex Merritt Vanderbilt collection, Clarissa Vanderbilt Dundon collection.

Price Realized: $57,330

Norman C. Heckler & Company

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