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old labels and box cntent - 5/20/2007 9:46:57 AM    epgorge Posts: 2422 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline I visited the Middletown Srpings Historical Society to find out more about Dana Carpenter./ Turns out I know more about him than they do. He was quite a business man evident by his advertisements on and in the box. I thought I would share some of the close ups with those who are interested in old labels and box content. Joel Attachment (1) < Message edited by epgorge -- 5/20/2007 10:16:55 AM > _____________________________ Post #: 1

RE: old labels and box cntent - 5/20/2007 9:49:47 AM    epgorge Posts: 2422 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline embosssment TAKE CAPRENTER'S / GRIP SYRUP / AND STOP THAT COUGH Attachment (1) < Message edited by epgorge -- 5/20/2007 5:04:51 PM > _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 2

RE: old labels and box cntent - 5/20/2007 9:52:19 AM    epgorge Posts: 2422 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline Labeled side, expectorant Attachment (1) _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 3

RE: old labels and box cntent - 5/20/2007 9:54:54 AM    epgorge Posts: 2422 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline ... Attachment (1) _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 4

RE: old labels and box cntent - 5/20/2007 9:57:49 AM    epgorge Posts: 2422 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline ....side box Attachment (1) _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 5

RE: old labels and box cntent - 5/20/2007 10:00:23 AM    epgorge Posts: 2422 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline testimonial Attachment (1) _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 6

RE: old labels and box cntent - 5/20/2007 10:02:44 AM    epgorge Posts: 2422 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline THE LUNGS ARE REACHED THROUGH THE MOUTH. SEVERAL OTHER PARTS OF THE BODY ARE REACHED THR0UGH WET FEET. Attachment (1) < Message edited by epgorge -- 5/20/2007 5:08:33 PM > _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 7

RE: old labels and box cntent - 5/20/2007 10:06:36 AM    epgorge Posts: 2422 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline upon retiring for the night Attachment (1) _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 8

RE: old labels and box cntent - 5/20/2007 10:08:48 AM    epgorge Posts: 2422 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline distressing coughs Attachment (1) _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 9

RE: old labels and box cntent - 5/20/2007 10:15:00 AM    epgorge Posts: 2422 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline I don't believe Dana Carpenter was a quack, but a pharmacist, however no one I asked, knew. I guess I will need to research. Even the Middletown Springs Gray and Clark bottles were not well known by the president of the society. He yielded to the expertise of one individual, Cookie knows who he is. That is fine and no condemnation on this fine society. The presidents of these small town societies are usually the new guy who hasn't figured out the new guy does all the work. He will acquiesce next season to the next new guy or girl. They had shards under glass and I asked if they had any full bottles of the stoddards and others. They did have four or five bottles with some variation. He showed me where they dug and I asked him why they hadn't dug another old sight? He said there is a lawn there now and the excavators would have broken everything. I suggested he was pessimistic. I pointed to a 100 year old tree... and asked, did you go below that? He said no. I then asked him how he figured he thought he was digging 1860 on, when in fact they hadn't even gone below the roots of the oldest tree.  Since this posting I have found more info on Dana... He was an educated pharmacist... Castleton Normal school was the first medical school in Vermont. There was a story in the local daily some years back, about the students stealing cadavres from graves to study the human anatomy. From http://www.geneabios.com/vermont/rutland.htm   Dana S. Carpenter of Middletown Springs, Republican, was born in Westminster, Jan. 7, 1863; he is a druggist and located in town in 1888; was educated at the Castleton Normal School; has been several times elected justice of the peace and secretary of the school board. Religious preference, Congregationalist. Joel < Message edited by epgorge -- 5/22/2007 9:02:22 AM > _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 10

RE: old labels and box cntent - 5/20/2007 7:26:59 PM    lobeycat Posts: 3801 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline Nice piece Joel. Does the bottle have a sealed top (lead or wax?) corkscrew ring? What do ya figure,1905-1915? Lobey. (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 11

RE: old labels and box cntent - 5/20/2007 8:21:19 PM    epgorge Posts: 2422 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline quote: Does the bottle have a sealed top (lead or wax?) corkscrew ring? Lobey, The cork is almost flush with the top of the bottle and appears to have had a paper seal, as there is remant of something in the grain of the corkl The stamp with it was a 5/8 cent stamp from the 1896 series. It is postmarked March 26, 1900. I assume that is when it was shipped. I am to understand Dana Carpenter made his own remedies right in Middletown Springs. I will get a picture of the old pharmacy store for you as it is still standing today. It is about 7 miles from me and I will take my camera the next time I go that way. Another interesting point I found out about the Grays and Clark Middletown Springs bottle, is it was bottled at the Gray Foundry in Poultney, Vermont. The bottles were produced in Stoddard, the water came from Middletown Springs, but Gray was a diverse businessman (horses, machinery, health springs) and had his work force available in Poultney, seven miles away. Joel _____________________________ (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 12

RE: old labels and box cntent - 5/20/2007 9:21:17 PM    cookie   Posts: 488 Joined: 2/19/2006 Status: offline Joel-You keep  coming up with all this info. about Middletown Springs they'll make you the "new guy" at the Historical Society!   Ha Ha! (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 13

RE: old labels and box cntent - 5/22/2007 8:13:47 AM    epgorge Posts: 2422 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline Some new info for those interested Dana S. Carpenter of Middletown Springs, Republican, was born in Westminster, Jan. 7, 1863; he is a druggist and located in town in 1888; was educated at the Castleton Normal School; has been several times elected justice of the peace and secretary of the school board. Religious preference, Congregationalist. http://www.geneabios.com/vermont/rutland.htm _____________________________ (in reply to cookie) Post #: 14

RE: old labels and box cntent - 5/22/2007 8:18:09 AM    epgorge Posts: 2422 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline The Grip Syrup ingredients concocted by Dana Carpenter at his store in Middletown Springs, as listed on the box: White Pine Bark, Wild Cherry Bark, Spiknard, and Balm Gilead Buds. _____________________________ (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 15

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