Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-14
IS REXALL AGENT
w. L. SARGENT ADDS BIG LINE TO
HIS DRUG STOCK
Recent Addition to store Gives Room
For Handling Increasing Business
With More Faeilty-Reautiful Paint
ing BY Prof. Johann ScheiWe.

Win MS CnaTaCIerlSLAC eulSl pliSO
and progressiveness, w. L. Sargent
has added to his already large drug
stock the full line Of the popular Rex
all remedies manufactured by the
United Drug Co., Of Boston. These
remedies are handled by only one drug
gist in city. They are sold and used
very extensively in the east, where
only the leading and best druggists
have the agencies, but they are now
being introduced in the western part
of the country. Mr.. Sargent, having
personally investigated the line, has
taken the exclusive agency for Ottum-
wa and will handle all of the 300 pre-
parations manufactured by the Boston
concern. y
The Rexall line is drug store In It,
self. There are hundreds of remedies,
each for particular ailmcnt. In glanc-
ing through their list one may see
named the following among other pre-
parations: Cherry juice cough cure,
soothing syrup, laxative syrup, syrup
hypophosphites comp, beef, iron and
wine, mucutone, kidney tablets,
phosphate of soda, absorbent cotton,
liver salts, toothache drops, catarrh
tablets, hair tonic, surgeons supplies,
and many other valuable preparations.
The United Drug Co. is large con-
Germ and guarantees every dollars
worth Of Its product to be exactly as
represented That it is Of Importance
in the commercial world Is evidenced
by the fact that its advertising appro-
priation is one of the largest made by
any similar firm in the United States.
In addition to remedies, the company
makes line of spices, guaranteed
chemically pure, for use either in the
household or in the preparation OF
medicines.
The recent enlarging Of the Sargent
store by the addition of new rooms In
the rear has made 1t possible to make
several improvements in the manner
of keeping the stock in good condition.
One of the greatest improvements Is
large refrigerator, seven feet square
and nine feet high, in which are kept
all the perishable articles and those
which should be kept in cool place
and at an even temperature. Here Mr.
Sargent keeps his stock Of anti-tetanic
and anti-diphtheritic serums, hydro
zone. glycozone, peroxide Of hydrogen
anti-streptococcic, and similar chemt
calls. Here also the baby foods are kept
so that they may be fresh and sanitary
at all times, even in the hottest wealth
err. In one of the new
rooms just added to the store Mr.. Sar
gent keeps the photograph supplies
which he carries in connection with his
complete line of Eastman kodaks ant
Promo cameras.
There has just been installed In one
of the ceiling panels just in front O
the soda fountain magnificent OF
painting executed by Prof johann
Scheiwe. The painting is eight fee
square and contains four figures rep
resenting the Spanish, English, French
and Venetian styles of the sixteenth
century. 1t is fully up to the STANDARD
always maintained by this we'll know
artist and is greatly admired by al
who see it.
The soda fountain at Sargent's is Il
charge of an expert, dispenser, Johl
Orr Young, who is assisted by Harol
; Swenson. Three registered pharms
cists are required to look after tn
large prescription business, which /
complete in every detail. In additio
to his own prescriptions, Mr.. Sargen
: has on file all the prescriptions c
four druggists who have in the pas
conducted stores in Ottumwa. Thes
old files cover period of thirty-tiv
: years and include the prescriptions c
: Arthur Gephart, DR.. w. W. Ennis an
t the Higdon and Burns pharmacies,