Wellington Womble
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Nice one this - it was also one of my first Owen Sound druggists.
The business succession for your drug store runs as follows:
Vincent Chantler "Palace Pharmacy" 188?-1892
W H Taylor 1892 - 1913
Jury & Leslie 1913 - 1950s?
Leslie-Dowkes 1950's to 1971
Don Nicol Pharmacy 1971 - 1980s
Don Nicol then amalgamated to form the Big V drug store, now a Shopper's Drug Mart.
I think the address was 932 2nd Ave East - it's beside the Bata Shoe Store (Don Browne shoes?)
If you go the the Owen Sound public library local history archive and search for drug store history you will come across a paper I out together in the late 1970s on OS druggists. It'll have the proper dates and succession.
Some of the drug stores distinguished themselves by locking up exclusive rights to certain product lines. Parker Pharmacy had Elizabeth Arden beauty products, McLeods had Baby Bunny nuts, Leslie Dowkes had Laura Secord candies, as well as Kodak cameras and accessories when they store first opened.
So why does a bottle manufactured after 1913 have no mould seam over the lip?
Simple. Dominion Glass continued hand operations (i.e. blown in a mould, applied lip) for small run orders up until the 1940s. The cost of making and outfitting moulds for an automatic bottle machine was too prohibitive if all you wanted were a few thousand bottles at a time (say 10 gross = 12x12x10 = 1440). So Dominion Glass carried on the old tradition of using a generic mould with an interchageable "slug plate" that bore the individual design for each druggist so that
smaller product runs could be accomodated.
Slug plates were cheaper than making full moulds for each druggist - easier to store as well.
The business succession for your drug store runs as follows:
Vincent Chantler "Palace Pharmacy" 188?-1892
W H Taylor 1892 - 1913
Jury & Leslie 1913 - 1950s?
Leslie-Dowkes 1950's to 1971
Don Nicol Pharmacy 1971 - 1980s
Don Nicol then amalgamated to form the Big V drug store, now a Shopper's Drug Mart.
I think the address was 932 2nd Ave East - it's beside the Bata Shoe Store (Don Browne shoes?)
If you go the the Owen Sound public library local history archive and search for drug store history you will come across a paper I out together in the late 1970s on OS druggists. It'll have the proper dates and succession.
Some of the drug stores distinguished themselves by locking up exclusive rights to certain product lines. Parker Pharmacy had Elizabeth Arden beauty products, McLeods had Baby Bunny nuts, Leslie Dowkes had Laura Secord candies, as well as Kodak cameras and accessories when they store first opened.
So why does a bottle manufactured after 1913 have no mould seam over the lip?
Simple. Dominion Glass continued hand operations (i.e. blown in a mould, applied lip) for small run orders up until the 1940s. The cost of making and outfitting moulds for an automatic bottle machine was too prohibitive if all you wanted were a few thousand bottles at a time (say 10 gross = 12x12x10 = 1440). So Dominion Glass carried on the old tradition of using a generic mould with an interchageable "slug plate" that bore the individual design for each druggist so that
smaller product runs could be accomodated.
Slug plates were cheaper than making full moulds for each druggist - easier to store as well.
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