The San Francisco call., 1899-09-10

Z n T F have purchased this half
IL page to give the general
ShI public an idea of the magni-
u " tude and enormity of our re-
tail drug business.
We sell patent medicines,
drugs. trusses, elastic stockings and
bandages, toilet articles, fill prescrip-
tions and do the largest retail drug
business in America west of New York.
This may seem like an exaggerated
statement, but it is an absolute fact.
We know it and we want you to know
II, and we have bought this half-page
to convince you of it.
The last fiscal year, ending June l,
1899. was the greatest in our history.
Our gross receipts exceeded one-half
million dollars, thousands of dollars
more than any other retail drug COM
pany west of New York.
We carry over 2000 good selling patent
medicines. During this last year we
sold 1881 bottles of DR.. Ira Bakers
different remedies and 1S,451 bottles of
Lydia Pinkham's Compound. We men
tiOn these two because they are in
greater demand.
We employ seventy-two men and
women, and our stores and laboratory
occupy 1856 square feet.
When The Owl Drug Company began
Market street, San Francisco, it was
the beginning on this coast of cut-rate
drugs and medicines. We were first to
cut prices and are the original drug
cutters. Cut-Tates played havoc with
the retail drug business throughout the
whole State. But we could not help
that. Our mission was to supply the
medicine buying public with patent
medicines and prescriptions at reason
able. affOrddble priCes-do a big bust
ness with small profits.
Prior to the opening Of our first store,
when it became generally known that
we intended to cut prices on medicines,
a joint committee of the San Francisco
Druggists Association and the Califor-
MIA Retail Druggists Association called
upon the wholesale druggists of San
Francisco and demanded that they re-
fuse to supply The Owl Drug Company
with drugs and medicines or they
themselves would boycott these whole
salerS. Spot cash in unlimited Quanti-
ties covers multitude of protests and
threats. BY aggressive and honest
business methods we We're enabled to
secure drugs and medicines necessary
to supply a rapidly increasing trade.
The high priced druggists associations
We're unable to carry out their designs
and finally collapsed. They have now
been dead several years, much to the
satisfaction and economy of the drug
and medicine consumers of San Fran
cisco in particular and the Pacific Coast
in general.
BY breaking up the high-priced drug
gists' combination and cutting prices
We have saved medicine buyers 10 to so
per cent We have supplied the poor
and rich alike with the very best goods
that money can obtain. By our meth
DDS we have Tevolutionized the retail
drug business from one of narrow
minded, high-priced pOlicy-a game OF
cinch everything in sight-to one of
strict, legitimate business principles.
The prescription departments of our
stores have pursued policy unique and
entirely characteristic of this company.
We do not substitute. We fill every
prescription just as it is written, with
exactly the same ingredients the doc
tor intends it shall be filed with when
he writes out the formula. If we
haven't the ingredient called for we get
it; if we cannot get it we tell you
SO. We will not fill a prescription writ
ten in cipher characters, nor will we
pay commissions to doctors on any