Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-29
AYERS JUBILEE CELEBRATION
The Famous Patent Medicine Con-
Germ Celebrates Its Fiftieth
AnniYcrsary.

Fifty years is a long record for a sue
cessful patent remedy, yet that is the fiat
tering event that the Aver company cele-
brated recently. Speaking Of the event, the
New York Ledger says:
The recent celebration by the officers and
employees. and by the civic disnitaries of
the city of Lowell. of the s~emi-centennial
of the founding by DR.. ]. C. Aver Of the
great business now controlled by the com
pany bearing his name, was the occasion
of recOunting, not only the history of DR..
Aver. but Of many interesting facts in
manufacturing establishment. and it's rela-
tons with its hundreds of employees.
h city of Lowell has profited greatly
by the amazing success and growth of the
business. which has grown up from the
humble beginning of DIR. Aver. in a little
apothecary's shop. where he gained his first
practical experience and insight to his fu-
ture work as an analytical chemist. He was
a poor boy, and depended on his own eff
forts in great measure for education and
~sustenance. He entered the apotheeary's
store at Lowell in 1898, and later he studied
medicine and became the proprietor of a
drug store. where he began his career as
the manufacturer of products now known
far and wide.
DIR. Aver in the beginning made haste
slowly. His maxim was Undertake what
you can accomplish, and accomplish what
you undertake" His countenance shows a
man in whom hope and prudence are COM
bined with good temper and kindly feeling.
Inc motive power OIL MS great. Drain was
fired by an ambition to succeed.
1t is nearly twenty years since DR.. J. c.
Aver died, but his is still the guiding spirit
in the great manufacturing industry which
he created, and his formulas and methods
are rigidly adhered to by those who have
succeeded him.
At the banquet given at Lowell by the
company to celebrate the semi-centennial
of its foundation. the chairman, Mr.. Alfred
E. Rose. who is also the manager and treas
urer of the Aver company. recognized the
important part which is played in the sue
who do the work in the humber places in
its factory, its shops. offices and agencies.
He paid a tribute to those who work unseen
and unknown, as privateS in the great
army of labor. who carry out conscientious
ly the work of manufacturing and shipping
the output of the factories.
All of the Aver PRODUCTS are manufac-
tured directly from the raw materials. 1t
receives it's material in the crude root and
buys its supplies at first hand, and is. there
quality of its preparations from the first
condition to the last. MI. Rose eulogized
the founder for the high standard which he
set Of the purity and quality Of all his
preparations. No amount of publicity will
make the success of a poor thing. This was
the first principle in DR.. Ayers business.
The first object of his work was to pro-
duce a better article and make 1t better
known than any other. This is the princi-
pie upon which Mr.. Rose is conducting his
great business, and it is the best guarantee
for its future.
Some idea Of the vast connections and
extent of the business can be formed from
the amount of space occupied in its offices
and factories. IN the great establishment
in Middle etreet:..LoweIl, the office room
partments occupy an aggregate floor space
of S3,0 900 square feet-nearly two acres.