Better beverages embossed bottle weldon bottling co.

[Karikeller11]

BobI did not want you to think I have abandoned our research! I was traveling last week and left my Ipad at the hotel. They are sending it to me this week and I am outof town until Wednesday. When I get home I will send the pictures. BTW- Great research!

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Kari: 10-4 Standing by In the meantime, there are two "Better Beverages" acl bottles listed alphabetically on Chris Weide's website. Both bottles are listed as being from Missouri and I'm not sure if they are related to the one in question - probably not ??? ( I am not posting pictures of the bottles because the images are copyrighted ) Click on the green numbers to see pictures of the bottles ... http://ca-yd.com/textfile/bottles/ACLWEB_B.HTM

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

P.S. Earlier I mentioned that a newspaper archives subscription cost $50.00 per month. Well, they just sent me a special offer of $49.95 for a full-year subscription so I signed up and will begin additional searches and see what, if anything, I can find related to either the Weldon Bottling Company and/or Better Beverages.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

For starters here's the entire 1916 Pepsi Cola article that I posted a snippet of earlier. It doesn't tell us much but does give us some names to work with ...

 

[Karikeller11]

Bob I emailed Chris Weide when I first started this crusade and he told me his Better Beverages bottled do not have any embossing on them. I do not have my Ipad back yet so I took pictures with my phone andam having troub;e uploading them. I will keep trying.Let me know if there is a better way to get good pictures of bottles, I obviously have not figured it out yet.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Searching through newspaper archives is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Even though the website I subscribed to allows me to narrow my search by selecting particular newspapers as well as specific states and dates, it still boils down to how I word my search. If I search for BETTER BEVERAGES it automatically pulls-up every listing for the word BETTER even if it is not directly related to the word BEVERAGES. It also pulls-up every listing for the word BEVERAGES even if not related to BETTER. The same is true when I search for WELDON BOTTLING COMPANY - it pulls-up all three words separately whether they are related or not. So what I end up doing is scrolling through hundreds and hundreds of articles in the hope of eventually finding the one I am looking for, which can takes hours and hours to accomplish. But this doesn't mean I am discouraged from searching - it simply means that I have to learn how to word things properly in as few words as possible so as to get more results in a lot less time.

Speaking of time, the attachment below took me a good two hours to find and so far is the only listing where the words "BETTER BEVERAGES" were listed together. I realize it's a teaser and not what we're looking for, but I thought I'd share it anyway to exemplify the challenge that lays before me. As time allows I will continue the search and hopefully find something directly related to ...

BETTER BEVERAGES - WELDON BOTTLING COMPANY ~ WELDON, NORTH CAROLINA

By the way, the newspaper archives consist of ...

1. 2,600 different newspapers. (But not one specifically from Weldon, N.C.)
2. Listings from the 1700s to the 2000s.
3. 64,427,665 individual pages.

The attached article is from ...

The Statesville Record & Landmark ~ Statesville, North Carolina ~ April 24, 1921

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P.S.

When I first stumbled onto this article I thought I had struck gold and solved the mystery but was disappointed when the reality of it set in. Oh well, the search goes on! []

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

P.S. ~ P.S.

I forgot to clarify that I have found numerous articles for the Coca Cola Bottling Company and the Pepsi Cola Bottling Company in Weldon, North Carolina, but nothing specifically for the Weldon Bottling Company. Its because of this that I cling to the possibility that "Better Beverages" might have been a flavor line of either Coca Cola or Pepsi Cola. ???

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

I just discovered that the newspaper for Weldon, North Carolina was/is called ... "THE ROANOKE NEWS" This advertisement is from that newspaper and dated Thursday, August 17, 1922

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

And this for a future reference ...

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

I figured I might as well post this Pepsi Cola advertisement, too ... Whoopee!! Zoom!! [] The Roanoke News ~ Weldon, N.C. ~ Thursday, May 29, 1919