The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-01-30
taylor DESCRIBED THE
UP-T0-DATFDRUCSTO
MinOt Druggist Reads Interesting Pa
per at the Minot Rotary Club
Luncheon Monday

! Frank P. Taylor of the Leland Drug
store read very interesting paper az
The Monday luncheon of the Minot
Rotary club as follows:
The first apothecary shop of which
we have record dates back to the year
1924, and was established in Italy
Professional birth and license was is
sued by Frederick II. This edict cred
tied the public apothecary and apoth-
ecary shop.
From Italy the apothecary crossed
the Alps to Germany, France and
i England. Their place as apothecarys
IN the Continental meaning of the
term was filed by the present day
chemist and druggist.
! The requirements Of a druggist in
most European countries is from five
to seven years apprenticeship with so
small a compensation that it would
scarcely be sufficient to buy clothes
| for him. After this he is obliged
TO pass the requirements of the ex-
| amlnlng board. In some countries
the apprentice even pays for the priv
llege of apprenticeship.
| Considerably more advanta geous are
i the opportunities for becoming q
: druggist in the United States. A lad
OF lS years of age begins with $40
week. Two years apprenticeship un-
der registered druggist is required,
and two or three years course at a
college of pharmacy, and he is pre-
! pared to pass the board and take up
his duties as fulf-fedged druggist.
We. scarcely recognize the up-to-
Hr11f or Df @oI L.
growth OF the little apothecary shop.
/ Ihe shops were usually little, dark,
dlngy rooms. The shop windows con
tanned large globes of highly colored
water; the shelves We're lined with
stock bottles filled with crude and
powdered drugs, fluid extracts, tine
lures, syrups, etc.
! 1he medicines are all manufac-
tured from crude drugs, the appren-
tees doing the mixing and grinding.
! imagine, for instance, the manufac-
ture OF Blue Ointment, where it was
necessary for the crude mercury to
be stirred with the lard continually
for seven days.
| The shopkeeper or druggist was
usually dyspeptic (you all know
him). one of those fellows who con
descends to wait upon you
The successful drug store of to-
day has the best location, is we'll
lighted and ventilated The windows
are attractively filled with sea asonable
merchandise, and are silent statesmen.
Inside you will find displayed so as
to catch the customers eye, drug sun
dries, rubber goods, stationery, per-
fumes, toilet articles, kodaks, can
dies, Victrolas, in fact if there is an
article you can't find elsewhere, you'll
find it in drug store
You may be sure of courteous
treatment and efficient service. No
matter what you want, step in the
drug store. It's where the stranger
looks in the directory, inquiries for
the best hotel, the nearest police sta
ton, gets his postage stamps-where
you meet your sweetheart and where
you phone the other mans wife.
Drug preparations are no longer
made by the individual. They are
better and more accurately prepared
by pharmaceutical manufacturers, Civ
ing standard for all drug stores.
1t is generally conceded by the laity
that exorbitant prices are charged for
drugs, but when you consider that the
average sale amounts to thirtyfive
cents, and the overhead expense av-
erages from 21 to "a per cent, one can
readily see that this is not so.
want to tell you at this time what
the 5000 Rexall druggists throughout
the United States have done for Uncle
Sam during the last six months of
war. They have enrolled $500 men
in the U. S. Merchant Marine, sending
them in at the rate of $500 per month.
If the shipping board had been obliged
TO get these men themselves they
would have had to establish and main
tain recruiting stations and officers
AT least one in each state would
have been absolutely necessary to OBJ
tain the number of recruits needed.
I doubt very much if they would
have been able to get men at cost
of $50 each. AS we have enrolled
more than 33,500 men, you can read
lily see that we have been the means
Of saving Uncle Sam S670,O00 and
over.
Mr. Taylor concluded by reading
letter from Henry Howard. director
of Recruiting of the U. S. Shipping
Board for Merchant Marine, thanking
Il. K Eggert, president of the United
Drug Co, or Rexall Stores, for the
excellent work which that organiza-
tion had done in enrolling men in the
Merchant Marine
EFT to Win Film to Be Shown
The Minot Rotary Club will have
charge of wonderful moving picture
Cit to Win" to be shown in this