The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06
A LARGE
DRUG DEAL
DoSter Northington Drug
CO. Sell Retail Store
COLLIER DRUG GO. PURCHASER
Doster-Northington Will confine Their
Business Strictly to Wholesale.
viii Have Modern
Store.
COLLIER DRUG GO. PURCHASER

drug trade and the people Of the BIT.
mingham district was contaminated
yesterday when the Collier Drug Com
pany purchased the retail department
of the Observation-Disclosures Drug Com
pany and secured lease on the build
ing now occupied by the latter com
pany.
The Doster-Northington Drug Com
pany's growing trade has forced them
10 seek larger and more commodlous
quarters for their wholesale business
The Collier Drug Company have out
grown their retail location.
An Age-Herald representative was
informed yesterday that the Doster-
Northington Drug Company will dis
continue the retail portion of their bus
mess and will enter into exclusive
wholesale and manufacturing business
and the Collier Drug Company, having
outgrown their present location have
secured a lease on the entire building
occupied by the DosterNorthington
Drug company, where they Will
conduct the largest exclusive re-
tail drug business in the state
and perhaps in the south. The
Doster-N orthington Drug company
have had the largest drug business i'll
the state, but in justice to the other
druggists whom they supply in Biz
mingham and vicinity they have con
cluded to discontinue the retail drug
business and will on July | transfer
their entire retail business to the Col
lier Drug company to enter exclusively
into the wholesale and manufacturing
dug business at 2108-2110 First ave
nut. which is now being built for them.
The new building will have $4,000 feet
of floor space to be equipped with
every modern convenience and they
viii be in position to supply physl-
clans office with everything required
from a package of absorbent cotton to
an May machine; in fact, will carry
all finds of Surgical inatrnments Hos
ri.al Furniture and Supplies, and WIZ
be in position 10 Sc a druggist alb
sulniely everything ne may want from
patent medicines and crude drugs to
n soda fountain or show case and store
fixtures.
All eady this firm has made a record
that is in keeping with the progress OF
Birmingham and has won for itself
re nfation far and nsa-. ard has far
the largest stock and the largest bust
ness of the state. They are going into
the new building with increased faclli-
ties and will add very largely to their
already large stock and broaden the
territory now covered by them, which
will thereby bring thousands of dollars
into circulation into Birmingham
1t is the energy of establishments
of this kind that builds cities. All Bir-
mingham should be proud of this firm
and 1t goes without saying that the
druggists and physicians of Birming-
ham and Alabama will do the greater
part of their business through this
firm. 1t is predicted that the Doster-
Northington Drug company will in the
future compare favorably with the
largest and most progressive in the
United States.
The Collier Drug company, as be.
fore stated, will occupy the entire
building, 109-111 North Twentieth
street. now occupied by the Doster-
Northington Drug company, and when
installed in the new quarters will be
second to nothing in the country. This
firm Is by far the widest known of any
retail drug house in this section and
enjoys one of the largest patronages.
So fast has their business grown that
1t has become a problem where to Sc
cure store large enough to accommo-
date their ever-growing trade. 1t has
only been a short space of five years
since they moved into their present
quarters thinking at that time that
the store would be large enough for
years to come, but increased trade has
forced another move to a more COM
modious building. This progressive
firm will equip the store now occupied
by the Observation-Disclosures Drug com
pany in the most modern way and will
be in position not only to take care Of
their large trade. but also the retail
department of the Doster-Northington
Drug company. 1t is predicted that the
Collier Drug company will be known
in every section of the country in the
very near future.
The retail patrons of the Doster-
Northington Drug company will find
their every want in every detail care
fully guarded by the Collier Drug COM
pany, and the -Northington Drug
company in transferring their retail
business to the Collier Drug company
does so feeling and knowing that every
interest of their former customers will
be as carefully looked after in the
future as it has been in the past
Neither of these firms need any
formal Introduction to the trade in
their new quarters. as they are already
widely and favorably known through.
out this section, but with their added
facilities it is predicted that both of
these firms will forge ahead and the
citizens of Birmingham can point to