Smith's Chill Syrup - Laurel Delaware medicine

[GuntherHess]

they rust out cars on their front lawns

We call that ecological recycling. Sounds like my kind of folks.

 

[phil44]

You wouldn'nt trade Denton for Greenwood? Most Marylanders wouldn't, even if you threw in Ellendale where they have twice as many rusting cars and don't pay.

 

[sandchip]

Neat bottle and great place name. Good score, hernie!

 

[div2roty]

Nice try Phil, but Ellendale is like 2 blocks long. It has way less rusted cars than Denton, plus in Ellendale the rusted cars are not on the front lawns, they sit them out on the street. Ellendale is classy that way.

 

[herndonbottles]

All, thanks for all the replies. Gunther, Have you used these Annual patent reports in your research? There were hundreds of patent medicines (some I recognized) registered in the book that I found reference to this bottle.

http://books.google.com/books?id=GSDRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PT733&lpg=PT733&dq=%22smith's+chill+syrup%22&source=bl&ots=93zivoOuXE&sig=E0ye9djs14yib6kFJeJcSJezu0g&hl=en&ei=gTdaS8rnJpDSNdT7rfoO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CA4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22smith's%20chill%20syrup%22&f=false

Here's a couple from Baltimore on the same page:
Strausa, George A., Baltimore, Md. "Tonic Milk Phosphates or Chemical Food "
Strontia Spring Company, Baltimore, Md. "Stroutia Mineral Spring Water"

Div2roty, I was planning to bring the bottle to Baltimore show. Were you planning on going? Thanks for your interest in the bottle. Send me a PM.
-Peter

 

[div2roty]

I finally found my Del medicine bottle list. Besides this bottle, there is also a Smith's Cough Syrup and a bottle embossed GEO. E. SMITH. The regular pharmacy bottle and the chill syrup are rated 2 stars and the Cough Syrup is rated 3 stars. The scale is between 1-5 stars, with 5 being the rarest. The list was complied in 1995, with an addition made in 1999 that did not include any other Smith bottles. The rarity scale has to be taken with a grain of salt though, given its age.

 

[markh]

Hi Herndonbottles,

The patent report reference you gave looks to be a good source for researching patented medicines. I did a little searching on google and found this link which has all the reports from 1845 to 1871, then skipping to the 1900's;

http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/m/mdp/mb?a=listis;c=503653486;sort=title_a;pn=1


The other years should be available online somewhere, just need to search a bit more. Should be fun to see if I can find references to some of my cure bottles. It's also pretty cool to see what people were inventing back then.

Thanks,
Mark

 

[GuntherHess]

Gunther, Have you used these Annual patent reports in your research?

Peter , I have used some of the patent reports They are good sources.