The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-04

"HERE is little woman in Cincin-
 nati whose private office is in the 4 Prudential Bank building. who aas been blacklisted, denounced. bounded, threatened, boycotted. slandered and sued because she insisted and persisted in doing a large volume of business on a small margin of profit. rather than small vol ume of business with a large margin of profit.
 It was very sad affair for the persons who interfered with her when the courts got into action, for the manufacturers and others who had persecuted her and tried to put her out of business, had been guilty of oppression, restraint of trade and a lot of other things.
 The little woman is Cora Dow. She does the largest drug business in Cincin- natl and in all Ohio. She probably does the largest drug business of any one person in the United States. She has enc wholesale and ten retail establishments in Cincinnati. She has an ice cream factory to supply her stores alone. She puts up more than 100000 prescriptions year. Her gross income averages more than mii- lion dollars annually
 She longed to be musician. but cir cumstances of fate diverted her to trade Any young woman who thinks her lot is hard when her chosen career is blighted and she has to earn her living might do well to take the case of Cora Dow to heart. Miss Dow started humbly enough She was only a slip of girl 26 years ago when her father died and left her tine hreadwinner of the family.
 Her father had conducted wee drug store near the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton station in Cincinnati. How small that drug store was can be imagined when it is said Cora Dow could stand in the middle of it and reach the pill cases on one side with one hand and the striped stick candy on the opposite side with the other. The stock probably represented less than one thousand dollars and tue trade was dismaly poor.
 The girl looked at that tiny drug store from every angle. She knew the well being of her family depended on it. She tsudied it and she studied the people who passed it's door Most of it's trade came from commuters. Most of them went there because of suffering. of sorrow and of tragedy The little store was dark and forbidding. The girl changed this bit within few days. She had very little money. but she risked it by putting flow CTS in the window and bright colors here and there to relieve the sombre tones that dlmned the store. By a dozen artful little touches she made that wee establishment attractive, particularly to women.
 Then she hired clerk to look after the place while she was absent, for her busy brain was full of plans for the future She had determined to become a pharma' cist She started at once to take the course at the Cincinnati College of Phaf- macy. and before she was 19 years old she was graduated
 Somehow that tiny drug store dre" trade that 1t never drew before. The gil was there every hour she could spar' from the college. And she had great faitl in having a woman behind the counter. II Is not always easy for woman 10 glvf her order to a man drug clerk. The gif behind the counter in that little drug store snoothed the way to countless sales ehe certainly was the only one in tho neighborhood; probably she was the only one in Cincinnati strange 1t is that tHf drug trade has not appreciated this great item of busiress In every one of Cora Dow,s drps stores today there is at least one wsrnan Proportonately the Dow d-.s stores do a larger business witt women than any other establishment ir America.
 As the business of that little drug stor, grew the ambition of the girl proprietor grew. She saved what she could from the profits. and when she thought she had enough to make venture she went out tc conquer new fields.