The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-04-03

DR.. Helmbold but few years ago was
famed throughout the whole civilized
world as probably the shrewdest business
man in line of pharmacy the age has yet
produced Mention of his name will also
recall in the minds of the many the
splendid establishments at Saratoga,
Newport, Long Branch, Baltimore, and
many other Eastern cities, of which he
was owner. The splendid parade in which
the Doctors six beautiful equines of the
swiftest and nimblest feet in the whole
country formed the most prominent at
traction on the occasion of the celebra-
ton of the peace jubilee in New York
City between Germany and the United
States in 1871, will also bring into recol-
lection. Owing to the brilliant history
which DR.. Helmbold has made for him.
self, we suspected that he was a silver
haired, tottering, broken down old man,
but such is not the case. He is as
bright, as active and as quick witted as
ever. One can not be long in converse
ton with the Doctor until it is found that
he Is wonderfully versatile in all lines of
thought, and very fluent in expression.
A short biographical sketch of the Doctor
in the city of Philadelphia in the year
1881, and educated at the Central High
School of the same city. He afterward
at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
and on the occasion of his graduation at
that institution wrote thesis on "Ex-
tracts of Buchu and Sarsaparilla," which
drugs he afterward brought into such
prominence. In 1S48 he learned the bu-
siness of pharmacy with George w. Car
penter, and started up in that line for
himself in 1852, on the northeast corner
OF Broad and Brown streets, Philadel-
phia, where he carried on the business
with such wonderful success that he was
soon compelled to remove to large five
story brown stone building, No. $50
Chestnut street. From that time he was
met with every encouragement, and be-
fore he had attained the age of thirty five
he found himself proprietor of three of
the largest and most handsome drug
stores in America, and before he reached
forty he had handled about $40, 1000, ,000
The Doctor attributes his almost incredi-
BILE success to a liberal use of printer s
ink, having paid upward of Sc 900 900 to
the press, one might say, of the whole
civilized world, for advertisements. His
name appeared in 1000 journals in con-
nection with extensive advertisements,
which comprised those of the United
States, South America, the West India
Islands, Canada, and the Old World. By
the kind treatment which he has received
at the hands of the press of Philadelphia,
Baltimore, and other kindred cities
throughout the Union his confidence over
the entire country will soon be restored
The great drugs which he has SO much
distinguished and brought to the surface
of the world, are the extracts of Buchu
and Sarsaparilla. These he first discov-
cred and brought to light their healing
properties. Before that time these drugs
glutted the market in the inconvenient
form of leaves, and the only mode in
which they were administered as medi-
cines was in teas. The extracts are made
in vocuo. The Doctor deserves the pat
ronage of the country, which undoubted-
ly he will soon secure Gin. Times.