old labels and box cntent

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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

 

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embosssment
TAKE CAPRENTER'S / GRIP SYRUP / AND STOP THAT COUGH

 

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Labeled side, expectorant

 

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....side box

 

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testimonial

 

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THE LUNGS ARE REACHED THROUGH THE MOUTH. SEVERAL OTHER PARTS OF THE BODY ARE REACHED THR0UGH WET FEET.

 

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upon retiring for the night

 

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distressing coughs

 

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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