What is Purity Brand?

[emmett]

All I know for sure is the obvious -- it was a product of Hagan & Dodd. My only lead is a newspaper article about Red Rock sales that says Red Rock of Jacksonville was a producer of "Purity Brand Soluble Extracts." A search for "Purity Brand Soluble Extracts" yields nothing but that one newspaper, though. A search in the Atlanta Journal archive has mention of "Purity Brand" as being beverages.

Was it bottles of syrup for sodas or something? Is that what's meant by extracts?

 

[Hezezilla]

I'd say they made both extracts and Soda. Typically extracts were put in small rectangular bottles.

 

[CanadianBottles]

Yeah it was probably concentrate for either soda fountains or home bottling (like those Hires root beer extract bottles) which was also sold as pre-made soda in bottles.