ST. LOUIS LOCALS The St. Louis Section of the American Chemical Society enjoyed a smoker at the Mission Inn, September 8. The organization is in a flourishing condition. D. St. Elmo Ralston, Ph. G., Ph. C., is chemist for D. ST. E. RALSTON Nelson Morris & Co., meat Walter H. Heath, former- now Dr. Hans H. Sauermann, Ph. G., well known in medand ical, pharmaceutical Masonic circles of St. Louis, died October 3, from cancer of the throat. He was born in Germany, but had lived in St. Louis for the past thirty-six years. He was fifty-five years of age. A. H. Grosse, Ph. G. '02, is in business at 1200 Hodiamont avenue. During the past fourteen years he has not heard from classmates as frequently as he desires. You will frequently notice in the daily papers of St. Louis credit given Murillo Studio for photographs used in making halftones. The papers know a good article when they see it. The St. Louis Drug Club Booster will soon make its appearance in a new and particularly attractive form. J. W. Mackelden is editor-in-chief and will add materially to the value and interest of the Boosters. J. H. Schwartztrauber is manager of the eighth store of the Johnson-Enderle-Pauley Drug Co., located at College and Florissant avenues. Mr. Schwartztrauber is a young man rapidly in the winning his way pharmaceutical world. The St. Louis Drug Club will give it opening ball at Westminster Hall, 3806 Olive street, October 17. J. H. SCHWARZTRAUBER The regular monthly meeting of the St. Louis Drug Club for October was held at the club home, Grand avenue and Olive street, on the second Monday of the month. It was a great success and the same report is assured for the meetings of the association. Henry Duckworth, Ph. G., is now an interne at the Masonic Hospital and also in his senior year as a medical student. He will be pleased to hear from classmates. The St. Louis College of Pharmacy, established in 1864 and devoted exclusively to the instruction of students in pharmacy, opened the current session, October 2. The junior class shows an increase of about 25 per cent over last year. The destruction by fire of the Christian Brothers College removes an educational landmark of the city. Many local pharmacists and physicians received their The loss of life early education in this institution. during the conflagration is particularly lamentable. Eugene H. Kurtz, Ph. G., '05, has decided to again enjoy the pleasure of living in Oregon. He will spend a month on his ranch before entering on his duties with the Blumaur-Frank Drug Co., at Portland. Mr. Kurtz hopes that his classmates will keep him posted regarding pharmaceutical affairs wherever they happen to be located. A. A. Overman, Ph. G., is home from his honeymoon spent in the East and the northern Canadian shores. Congratulations continue to come in from his numerous friends. A. A. OVERMAN, PH. G. The Missouri Board of Pharmacy will meet in St. Louis, Monday, October 9. If you desire to be examined, write at once to the secretary, Edwin G. Cox, of Craig, Mo. Among the delegates from St. Louis to the A. C. P. F.,. N. A. B. P. and the A. Ph. A., were Professor Francis Hemm, Dr. Otto F. Claus, Charles Gietner, L. G. Blakeslee, and Dr. H. M. Whelpley. The Ilhardt Conscience Fund Grows.-William K. Ilhardt, secretary of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy and proprietor of an ethical pharmacy on Euclid and Delmar avenues, has a conscience fund. The foundation of the same was announced in the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST, several years ago, when an anonymous customer sent 25 cents, which he said belonged to Mr. Ilhardt. The latest addition to the fund arrived a few days ago from a pharmacy outside the State. The contributor signed his name and said the $5 was in payment for a pipe which he took while an apprentice in Mr. Ilhardt's store more than twenty years ago. How many readers of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST have conscience funds? THE SWIFTEST DOG IN THE WORLD, the berzoi, or Russian wolfhound, has made record runs that show 75 feet in a second, while the gazelle has shown measured speed of more than 80 feet a second, which would give it a speed of 4,800 feet in a minute if the pace could be kept up. ODD ORDERS The Best Was None too Good for the darkey who said he did not want a "pores" plaster but wanted the best. The U. S. P. IX is not Up-to-date on this spelling: 1. Sillicsid acid. 2. boilte linceSeed Oil. The N. F. IVX contains many new articles but nothing for "pickle lilly." A St. Louis pharmacist was, however, equal to the occasion when a customer ordered "mixed spice for Picallili." Would Not Administer the Bottle.-Mr. Krummenacher at his First Aid Drug Store, St. Louis, received and filled the following order: "Small junemaker guenr 5 cts. for the cramps. But after while send the Bottle back." Aspirin Tablets are Expensive, no matter how designated. In addition to the cost of the material, it required some time for the Midvale Drug Co., Midvale, Utah, to figure out that aspirin tablets were wanted on the following order: "A box of Asboine Bills for headache." A Serious Matter with the Customer but amusing for the pharmacist was the following odd order, filled by Dr. G. A. Auerswald, Se Soto, Mo.: "10 cent of Sweet Spirt of Snyder 10 cent of oil of quebied 10 cent of Boston Pevey" "It Takes a St. Louisan to Appreciate and a pharmacist to see the humor," says B. C. Huger, who filled the following order: "Bos of Capattice Sweet S. of neiter Oil of Ever Green." The above order was written on a membership card of a "Literary Association." A Large Cannon Prescription. We often hear of shot gun prescriptions, so named on account of containing a large number of ingredients on the principle that if one article does not hit the case another will. A shot gun contains so many small balls that the chances are that one or more will hit the mark. A cannon prescription may not call for many articles but designates them in large quantities. The best example is contributed to the Bulletin of Pharmacy by J. E. McNeil, of Lethridge, Alberta, B. C. A veterinary surgeon wrote two prescriptions to be used in treating 200 head of sick cattle. One prescription called for 50 pounds of fluid extract of gentian, together with 50 pounds of fluid extract of ginger and 10 pounds of tincture of capsicum which, no doubt, masked the bitter taste of the gentian. The other prescription required in filling 25 gallons of wood alcohol, 5 pounds of iodine crystals and 15 pounds of sulphuric ether. This is not a sea-serpent story nor even an Asbury Park man-eating shark report. It is the experience of a pharmacist. STRICTLY UNOFFICIAL A Sign May be Attractive at one season of the year and not at another. During the excessive heat of July and August, a sign on Fourth and Olive streets announced that a place was for rent and stated as one of the attractions, "steam heat." An Excuse But Not a Defense.-The milkman, charged with selling adulterated milk faced testimony saying that the milk contained 25% of water. He then contended that unadulterated milk consisted of from 80 to 90 per cent of water, and added, "I should have sold this for cream." When It Comes to Definitions, modern, organic chemicals do not have a full monopoly of complex statements. A British newspaper defines the conscientious objector as "a social anarchist with a malady of abnormal egotism who floated into modern notoriety on calf lymph and has reached his opprobrious apotheosis in a pharisical funk." Or, as we say, a boob. This reminds us that "circumlocution is a circumlocutory and pleonastic cycle of oratorical sonorosity, circumscribing an atom of ideality lost in verbal profundity." The Doctor. The pills of a merry doctor work best. If wine, women, and trolleys were obliterated there I would be few doctors fed. The man who lies to his doctor or his lawyer would blow out his own brains if he had any. We call in the doctor to do in a day what we have been undoing for a year. A cheerful doctor keeps the graveyard guessing. The least a doctor can do is to let us live. The most he can do is to help us ditto. The leaner the doctor the fatter the neighborhood. The worst doctor is the one that has to come oftenest to call on us.-[Puck. Lingual Tests.-A London paper recently offered a series of prizes for the best "togue twisting" sentences. The prize-winning contributions are: The bleak breeze blighted the bright broom blos soms. Two toads totally tired tried to trot to Tedbury. Strict, strong Stephen Stringer snared slickly six sickly silky snakes. Susan shineth shoes and socks; socks and shoes shine Susan. She ceaseth shining shoes and socks, for shoes and socks shock Susan. A haddock, a haddock, a black spotted haddock; a black spot on the black back of a black spotted haddock. Oliver Oglethorp ogled an owl and an oyster. Did Oliver Oglethorp ogle an owl and an oyster? If Oliver Oglethorp ogled an owl and an oyster, where are the owl and the oyster Oliver Oglethorp ogled?-[Detroit News. CHARLES HOLZHAUER Charles Holzhauer of Newark, N. J., who was local secretary for the A. Ph. A. meeting at Atlantic City, was represented on the cover of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST for October. The N. F. IV is now on the market. Have you ordered a copy? Enter the Prize Contest announced on page 100 of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST for November. Candidates for Registration Should Use Business Judgment. It is really astonishing how little attention the candidates for registration by examination give to the preparation for the ordeal. In fact, quite a number merely pick up and go when the time comes and trust to luck to help them pass. Luck does not seem to be very kind to negligent candidates. Market Review, Page 350. Missouri Reciprocity, Page 57. Want Advertisements, Page 101. Index to Advertisements, Page 102. Patent Medicine Price List, Page 3. Board of Pharmacy Secretaries, Page 57. Meyer Brothers Druggist Prize Contest, Page 100. Board of Pharmacy Examination Questions, Pages 57, 342. |