I don't usually post here, but many of this round of purchases were sodas. The Prairie Brew is from Kansas City, KS and dates to the mid twenties. I have been searching for more info on this local bottler and my best guess so far is that is a successor company to George Grubel in KCK. The Lemon Cola is from 1940. I have been searching from some more information on Otto Isler and as yet have not found much. The Eagle Bottling Works is from a semi-automatic machine. The Thomas and Dunlavy, Troy and A Perriard & Co are from the mid 1860's. It took a bunch of hours and fiddling with searches before I was able to give A Perriard a first name, Anthony. He's in the 1864 Rochester, NY city directory. The Jacob House & Sons goes with my others from the same extended family of New York bottlers. I now have 30 different bottles from that family. The earliest is 1870 and the last is from the late 1940's. Louis, Charles, William, George and Jacob House. If anyone has any bottles from along the Erie Canal that have the name House on them, I would like to know please.
For info, I live in Kansas City, but hail from central New York, that's why the locality differences in the bottles.
Scott
For info, I live in Kansas City, but hail from central New York, that's why the locality differences in the bottles.
Scott