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ST. LOUIS LOCALS.

St. Louis was incorporated, November 9, 1809. If present plans on the part of prominent citizens develop, the first centennial of the incorporation will te celebrated by a week of festivities, ending November 9, 1909.

The Great St. Louis Fair was established in 1856 and until the opening of the World's Fair was an annual event of interest to all in the territory tributary to this city. The grounds occupy about fifty acres, were continued as a race track during the World's Fair and until the Folk administration put a stop to horse racing. Plans were made to convert the grounds into a park but a real estate deal has recently been consummated which places the old Fair Grounds on the market and the place will be cut up into lots. Thus passes one of the historic spots in St. Louis which has been familiar for a lifetime to many readers of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST.

The Base Ball Season is on in St. Louis among the doctors and druggists and salesmen. They have several teams organized. Last game played May 21 resulted in a victory for the salesmen-score 6 to 5 with the following men participating:

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Phenol the Favorite for St. Louis Suicides.-Two hundred and eight persons committed suicide in St. Louis between March 31, 1907, and March 31, 1908, according to the annual report of Coroner Jules Baron. This is eighteen less than during the previous year. The means of death and the number of suicides follow: Phenol (Carbolic acid) 102; morphine, 5; strychnine, 3; arsenic, 3; paris green 1; gas, 6; drowning, 4; jumping from buildings, 2; razors and knives, 8; gunshot, 43; by leaping in front of steam cars, 2, and by hanging 16. Only three of this number were negroes; 149 were males and 56 were single. According to the report, 17 who ended their lives were between the ages of 10 and 20 years; 96 were between the ages of 20 and 40 years; 20 were between 60 and 70 years and 7 were over 80 years of age.

The report shows that 138 were born in the United States and 39 were natives of Germany. Over a dozen countries are represented by the other suicides.

During the fiscal year the coroner held a total of 1656 inquests compared with 1455 for the previous year. The report showed that 1103 persons who suffered sudden or violent deaths were born in the United States, 198 in Germany, 75 in Ireland, 20 in England, 28 in Austria. Seventeen other countries are also rep

resented by from one to three. Out of this number the nativity of 105 could not be determined.

J. R. Memmel is now with Robert Thebus, Jefferson and Lafayette Avenues.

Fred Klein, of East St. Louis, has accepted a position with A. S. Ludwig, St. Louis and Newstead Avenues. Ralph Hopkins has left the employ of A. C. Skinner and has gone home to rest up until the hot weather is

over.

Geo. Gruenewald will open a new drug store in Belleville, Ill., about June 10.

GEO. GRUENEWALD.

Martin Westerfeld will open a new store at Delmar and DeBaliviere about June 15.

A Prominent Pharmacist was, fined $40.00 for selling alcohol on Sunday. Let other druggists bear this in mind and avoid the expense attached to this kind of experience.

L. E. Baumeister, East St. Louis, Ill., has installed a complete set of new fixtures and is now the proud owner of one of

the prettiest drug stores in East St. Louis.

Dr. Louis H. Behrens, Ph. G., was toast-master at the banquet of the Alumni Association of the Medical Department of Washington University, May 27.

Dr. Robert E. Schlueter, Ph. G., vice-president of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy and president of the Alumni Association of the Medical Department of Washington University, is responsible for a successful week of medical college clinics for visiting members of the Alumni Association and a number of class reunions.

Peter J. Singer, with the Meyer Brothers Drug Co. for a number of years and formerly at the head of the firm of Singer & Wheeler, of Peoria, Ill., celebrated his seventyeighth birthday, May 24. Mr. Singer is hale and hearty, looking practically the same as he did a quarter of a century ago, unless he appears a trifle younger.

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C. F. G. Meyer III., is the name of the youngster who made his appearance May

PETER J. SINGER.

24, at the home of Mr. C. F. G. Meyer, Jr., of the Meyer Brothers Drug Co. The young man gives every promise of following in the worthy foot-steps of his grandfather and father.

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"The Missouri Botanical Garden," said Bishop Atwill, "is known everywhere in the United States as Shaw's Garden. Thus the memory of Henry Shaw is perpetuated. Sixteen thousand species and varieties of plants remind us of his love for nature."

Bishop Atwill referred to the hundreds of thousands of visitors to the gardens in one year, the amount of botanical instruction which is given, and even the pleasure which visitors from afar find in discovering plants of their own home country in the gardens. The annual sermon, he said, was intended "in God's house to remind you that God created the useful and beautiful plants in his universe, and that the wisdom and love of God is shown in the growth of flowers and other products of the vegetable kingdom."

In conclusion, the bishop made a plea for the preservation of forests, which, he said, have been "ruthlessly destroyed, so that it makes one sad to see it. Let us make a new resolution not only to use but to preserve the blessed gifts that God has given us."

The W. O. N. A. R. D. organized on Wednesday, April 1, at the Southern Hotel with nineteen charter members present. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year:

Mrs. Otto F. Claus, president.

Mrs. W. F. Ittner, vice-president.

Mrs. Paul Schneider, recording secretary.

Mrs. K. Kring, corresponding secretary.
Mrs. Theo. Hagenow, treasurer.

Executive Board.-Mesdames Sol. Boehm, W. Busch, A. W. Pauley, E. R. Marten, A. J. Hoenny, Jos. P. Methudy.

The objects and aims of this organization are sociability, to assist in various ways their husbands, sons and brothers who are members of the St. Louis R. D. A., and other features which from time to time present themselves. The members voted that two dollars shall constitute the dues for the first year, and each lady present gladly paid same in advance. Since the first meeting eleven new names were presented for initiation making a total of about thirty members. Committees were appointed by the president at the last meeting held at Schneider's Hall, Broadway and Keokuk Streets, to canvass the entire city, and the association expects in a few months to have a membership of more than one hundred. Considerable interest was taken in the proceedings of the meeting held on Wednesday, May 20, 1908, and the ladies are now contemplating something very interesting which, for the present, they positively refuse to divulge. Every lady who is either a wife, daughter, mother or sister of a retail druggist is eligible to join this association. The meetings will be held on the third Wed

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Back Row, Otto Rudert, Geo. Danner, Otto Rosskopt. Front Row, Geo. Hickel, Frank Teighraber.

In the first series the Zebras rolled the highest single game totaling 275 pins in one game. In the second series the Karbirons passed this one pin, rolling 276 pins.

In the first series, John Weiler, secretary of the League and a member of the La Crestonias, rolled the highest five, totaling 290 pins. In the second series Mr. Rudert, of the Karbirons rolled the highest five, totaling 303 pins.

In the first series three individual bowlers tied for the high single-Anthony Rasch, Mr. Bradshaw and G. T. Meyer. In the roll off this was won by Mr. Rasch. In the second series Mr. Schrader, of the Maltese Cross, rolled the highest single, totaling 82 pins. Several perfect games were rolled.

The chief trophy is a solid silver loving cup donated by Willis W. Russell, Milltown, N. J., which the board of directors decided should be given to the ranking bowler at the end of the series, but only to be held by him until won three times. This year it was taken down by Otto Rosskopf of the Karbirons.

"Oil and Gas in St. Louis and Vicinity," was the subject of an interesting article at the May 4 meeting of the St. Louis Academy of Science.

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MARKET REVIEW.

The Prosperity Club that had its inception in St. Louis is not only spreading the doctrine of good cheer but believing in a returning prosperity they have given an impetus to this optimistic view of the situation that has appealed to the better judgment of our adaptable people and the sentiment has been taken up all over the land and heralded effectively, absolutely producing substantial results as evidenced by the resumption of operations by factories and jobbing houses on full time with a reinstatement of the usual departmental corps, and unemployed generally.

The "conservation” idea now permeates all large centers of trade, the smaller cities and towns dependent upon agriculture have felt no depression, and the prospect for abundant crops coupled with other agencies augur significantly-a betterment of conditions.

Price changes since our last issue have been chiefly on the downturn, notable recessions occurred in cam

phor, phenol, morphine, glycerin, strychnine, blue

vitriol and the hard mercurials, advances are noted on guarana, oil citronella, caustic potash and oil

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Quinine.-Dull and unchanged; an advance seems improbable. Local quotations are: P. & W., on the basis of 100-oz. cans, 17c; M. B., 164c; 25-oz. cans, 19c; 5-oz. cans, 23c; 1-oz. vials, 28c.

Opium.—Again advanced; due to unfavorable reports of crop damage in producing districts. Gum, quotable at $4.85; Powd., M. B., $5.40; P. & W., $6.50. Morphine. Declined; due to lower prices abroad, followed by reduction by domestic makers. Quotable in -oz. vials, 34-oz. boxes, $3.00; oz. vials, 20c per oz. less.

Alcohol, Grain, 188°.-Unchanged; bbls., $2,75; bbls., $2.78; 10-gal. cans, $2.95; 5-gal. cans, $2.99, con

tainers inclusive, with the usual allowance of 10c per gallon for cash in 10 days.

U. S. P., 190°, is being offered in this market at an advance of 5c over the above.

Denatured.-Unchanged; quotable in bbls., 40c; bbls., 44c; 43-gal. cans, 62c, containers inclusive.

Wood, 95%.-Advanced; bbls., 44c; 4-bbls., 50c; 10gal. cans, 59c; 5-gal. cans, 64c, containers inclusive. Acetone Commercial.-Declined to 32c per lb. to 85, to 95c per gal. as to quantity.

Acid Tannin, U. S. P.-Quotable at 95c to $1.15. Oxalic. Declined; quotable in bbls., 84 to 12 to 14c, as wanted.

Amyl Acetate, Commercial.-Declined to 35 to 40c per lb. to $1.95 to $2.05 per gal.

Arsenic. Quotably lower; kegs, 5 to 9 to 14c in small lots.

Antimony Sulphide. Declined to 9 to 17c as to quantity.

Balsam Fir Canada.-Advanced to 80 to 85c.. These

prices may be shaded in quantity.

Blue Vitriol.-Quotably lower; bbls., 5 to 8 to 10c in a small way.

Calomel. Declined 5c; quotable in 1-lb. boxes at 86 to 95c, as to quantity.

Camphor.-Declined; bulk in bbls., 54 to 63 to 65c; 32s, in pound packages 65 to 70c.

Collodion. Declined; U. S. P., 1900, 48c; U. S. P., 1890, 48c.

Corrosive Sublimate.-Declined 5c; quotable in pound boxes at 78 to 91c as to quantity.

Glycerin. Declined; 50-lb. cases quotable at 15c.
Guarana.-Advanced to $4.15.

Gum Chicle.-Advanced; quotable in bags, 57 to 69 to 74c, in a small way.

Gambier.-Advanced; bales, 6 to 12 to 15c, as

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Phenol.

Declined; 1-lb. cans or bottles, 25c; 5-lb tins, 23c; 10-lb. tins, 22c; 28-lb. tins, 20c; 56-lb tins, 18c. Potassium Bicarbonate.-Advanced to 8 to 9 to 16 to 18c.

Potash Caustic.-Advanced; 124 to 16c as to quantity. Red Precipitate.-Declined 5c; quotable in 1-1b boxes, 97c to $1.09, as to quantity.

White Precipitate.—Declined 5c; quotable at $1.02 to $1.20, as to quantity.

Strychnine.—Declined; alkaloid, crystals, oz. vials, $1.00 to $1.20; alkaloid powdered, sulphate crystals and sulphate powdered, 95c to $1.15, as to quantity; oz. vials, 20c per oz. higher.

Vanillin. Declined; quotable at 40 to 55c. These prices may be shaded in large lots.

Venice Turpentine.-Advanced to 27 to 30c as to quantity.

VICTORY IN MISSOURI.

BY ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL N. T. GENTRY.

Supreme Court Sustains Pharmacy Law.

On May 19, 1908, the Supreme court of Missouri decided the case of State of Missouri against Sterling P. Hamlett, appealed from the Circuit court of Pike county. Mr. Hamlett was operating a drug store in the town of Ashley, in Pike county, and was not a registered pharmacist, and did not keep a registered pharmacist in his employ constantly, as is required by Section 3045 of Revised Statutes of Missouri 1899. Accordingly, Mr. Hamlett was prosecuted for violating said statute, and the circuit court found him guilty and fined him one hundred dollars. The case was accord

Glassware.—Quotable discounts unchanged; Pearl ovals, case lots, 75%; 5-case lots, 75%; larger quanti-ingly

ties, 75 and 5%; Baltimore ovals, brandy finish, 75 and 10%; 5-case lots, 75, 10 and 5 %; larger quantities, 80%; Comet ovals, 80 and 15%; 25-case lots, 85%; 50-case lots, 85 and 5%.

Window Glass.-Advanced; quotable in this market, all single, 90 and 30%; all double, 90 and 40%.

Turpentine.-Whilst the market has fluctuated, rulable quotations are the same as contained in our last issue, viz., bbls., 50c; 10-gal. cans, 61c; 5-gal. cans, 65c packages inclusive.

Gideon Harvey, physician to Charles II., rendered considerable service to medicine by counselling the use of a few remedies the action of which was understood. He showed that the sixty or seventy ingredients of Venice treacle and mithridate were mostly incompatible, and that these compounds owed their virtue solely to the opium which they contained. He parodied Sydenham's famous "expectant attitude" towards diseases with which he was unfamiliar in a witty little book called "The Art of Curing Disease by Expectation." Gideon Harvey's services to medicine never met with the recognition which they deserved, partly on account of his bitter hostility towards all his contemporaries, and towards the College of Physicians in particular, and partly on account of his inveterate habit of hinting in all his works that he possessed secret remedies and specifics against all diseases. But the pharmacopoeias published after his day show that his views were tacitly accepted, as most of the loathsome and absurd preparations which he condemned were left out.-[DR. L. G. GUTHRIE in a Lecture to the Harveian Society of London.

There was a young lady from Cork Who went to the drug store for chalk. The clerk who was jarred

Marked it calcium carb,

And out in a huff she did walk.

Every Man excuses his impatience in the conviction that patience is today a feminine trait.

appealed to the Supreme court of this state, and that court decided (opinion by Judge Fox) that there was sufficient evidence to justify the conviction and punishment of Mr. Hamlett. Messrs Pierson & Pierson, and Tapley & Fitzgerrell were attorneys for Mr. Hamlett, and they argued that the statute, under which he was prosecuted, was unconstitutional, unreasonable and void. The State was represented by Attorney General Herbert S. Hadley and Assistant Attorney General N. T. Gentry, who argued for the constitutionality of said statute. In Judge Fox's opinion it is said; "That the general assembly has power, by appropriate legislation, to regulate the transaction of business by those who are engaged in dispensing drugs or medicines for medical use, we have no doubt. While it may be true that the occupation of a druggist or pharmacist is highly beneficial to the public, yet it will not be seriously contended that a business where medicines are compounded and sold is frequently attended with a great danger to the people, who are so unfortunate as to need the assistance of medical remedies. It has been uniformly recognized by the courts of this as well as in foreign jurisdictions, that 'whenever the pursuit of any particular occupation or profession requires for the protection of the lives or health of the general public, skill, integrity, knowledge or other personal attributes or characteristics in the person persuing it, the general assembly has the power and authority to have recourse to proper measures to ensure that none but persons possessing these qualifications should pursue the calling.' The Supreme court, thereupon, held that the Missouri statute is constitutional and valid, and followed the decision of the Supreme court of Wisconsin in reference to a similar statute, as decided in the case of State vs Heinemann, 80 Wisc. 232-233. This decision is considered a victory for all reputable pharmacists, and also a victory for the public as well.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato-the only good belonging to him is under ground.-[Sir T. Overberg.

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