Went out digging this past weekend and dug a pretty good pile of (mostly junk) bottles, but did find a few odds and ends of interest. The most interesting (though I didn't know it when I dug it) was a clear bottle embossed "Collier's/Tonic Aperient". I always hope when I dig bottles like this that they might be local and they almost never are. When I got home and started searching for information, the only hits were advertisements in the Galveston newspaper in the first few weeks of 1889 where it simply said "Smallpox-to protect against, take Collier's Tonic Aperient". No company name or location...nothing but those words. So I went to the 1889 business directory for Galveston and BINGO...Collier's Drug & Manufacturing Co., run by Lauderdale Collier. Looking back, he appears to have been in business from 1886-1889. Very excited to add this (as far as I am aware previously unknown) Galveston medicine bottle to the collection!