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MISSOURI DEPARTMENT

F. X. Teasdale, Louisiana, Mo., has a motto, "Honesty makes customers permanent."

The Union Station Drug Store, at Kansas City, Mo., is under Fred Harvey management. It is a handsome place and appeals particularly to the wants of the transient public.

Thomas Hiram Mitchell, Ph. B. '11, is located at Brighton, Mo., awaiting correspondence from classmates.

T. H. MITCHELL.

W. E. Whitsitt, formerly of Forsyth, is now manager of The Model Drug Store, at Oak Grove, Mo.

E. Brown has opened a new store at Brentwood, Mo.

Hoshor & Barnes have been located in a new store at Rosendale, Mo., since December 20, 1914. They conduct one of the best regulated drug stores in northwest Missouri. The Parma Drug Store, at Parma, Mo., is owned by E. N. Blackman, who has installed the same with a new stock of goods and up-to-date fixtures. A few weeks ago, Mr. Blackman was burned out with a total loss of stock and building.

Morris B. Tuck, Ph. B. '11, and Ph. G. '12, is following the drug business, at Morrisville, Mo.

J. P. Cooper, a member of the Missouri legislature, while away from home, suffered a total loss of his drug store at Savannah, Mo. His son, Walter, who has been in charge for some time, will with his father rebuild and start anew. During a recent conflagration at Savannah, Mo., the drug store of Limerick W. B. saved by prompt assistance from the St. Joe Fire Department. The Missouri Board of Pharmacy met at Jefferson City, January 11. The next meeting will be held at Kansas City, April 12. The successful candidates on the recent examination are as follows:

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M. B. TUCK.

Registered.-Elton R. Wisehart, Sheldon, Mo.; A. E. Hart, Parma, Mo.; Forrest Masterson, Bertrand, Mo.; Ernest Coday. Mansfield, Mo.; F. J. Behne, 2323 Charles street, St. Joseph, Mo.; Geo. A. Beck, Norborne, Mo.; Guy Q. McDaniel, Bolivar, Mo.; Val G. Haffner, 16 West Third street, Belleville, Ill.; Augustus G. Schroeder, 3304 Ohio avenue., St. Louis. Mo.; George F. Cucchi, 7616 Vermont street, St. Louis, Mo.; Charles Clarence Kumbera, 3342 Franklin avenue, St. Louis, Mo.

Assistants.-William F. Walls, 432 Clark avenue, Jefferson City, Mo.; Otto Crawford, Spickard, Mo.; Geo. M. McEckron, 1600 East Eighth street, Kansas City, Mo.; Ralph W. Day, Summerville, Mo.

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ing an average grade of 75 per cent and not less than 60 per cent in any one branch of such examination, and must submit satisfactory evidence to the Board that he is of good moral character and in good standing as a registered pharmacist in the state from which he came, at the time of making application for reciprocity.

Have You Started Your Paper?-Announcement by the Chairman of the Committee on Papers and Queries of the Missouri Pharmaceutical Association, 1915 Meeting. The season is now at hand when members of the above committee should join in with the chairman to arrange a suitable program for the next meeting to be held in June, at Pertle Springs.

Each member of this committee should busy himself to contribute his quota toward the whole so that when all together turn in their reports there will result a good list of useful and timely papers and also many pertinent queries for the query box.

While the chairman intends to have further early written communications addressed to all of his colleagues of the committee, he gives this preliminary announcement to the drug journals to not only secure their early attention and remind them to get ready for business but he has in mind also the rank and file of all members of our association who happen to read same. In other words this announcement means for everybody to get ready.

All members of the association are herewith invited and earnestly requested to send titles of any papers they wish to read or have read at the convention to any member of the committee on papers and queries, any time from now on and say up to June 1st, so as to give us plenty of time to fix up a nice program and get it in on the official general program which is usually printed about two or three weeks before the meeting.

At the last meeting it was deplored that the query box had actually passed into desuetude and that the association was a great loser in consequence.

We trust if this is so it may be hastily restored to its old usefulness, and for that reason we are inviting every one to stuff the box at this meeting!

Select papers on historical, educational, or commercial topics or on any matter in which you have some special interest and don't imagine that it is necessary to be lengthy; the fact is, a short pithy paper is more interesting and profitable ofttimes than is a lengthy one.

The committee will publish in the next issue of the drug journals of St. Louis and Kansas City a list of topics for consideration on which papers may be prepared by anyone who wishes to do so, and in case you have no other matter you wish to write about, it is possible you would be interested in one or more of these.

-[Committee on Papers and Queries: Francis Hemm, Chairman, St. Louis; W. J. Meisburger, St. Louis; H. D. Llewellyn, Mexico; Paul L. Hess, Kansas City; Charles E. Zinn, Kansas City.

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THE OPEN WINDOW in the sleeping room at night means pure air and restful, refreshing sleep.

ST. LOUIS LOCALS

St. Louis pharmacists are among those citizens particularly visited by highway robbers.

A. F. Kolkmann has purchased the business of F. J. Brellocks, at 4019 South Grand avenue.

Fred A. Graichen is chief clerk at Ulich's Pharmacy, Twentieth and Salisbury streets, St. Louis.

Mrs. Bertha G. Huffman. Ph. G., is pleasantly located with the Judge & Dolph Drug Co., Seventh and Locust store.

The Alumni Association of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy will hold its annual meeting at the college building, Tuesday, February 16.

A. C. Meyer, of the Meyer Brothers Drug Co., after several weeks' illness with typhoid fever, has returned to his office, completely recovered in health.

B. L. Cole, Ph. G., 5919 McPherson avenue, St. Louis, is president of the firm which bears his name. Mr. Cole is favorably known by the physicians and pharmacists of that city.

Charles J. Koch, Ph. G., of Eleventh and Rutger streets, had an unpleasant experience with two highwaymen in his store who robbed him of $12.00 and left him tied to the safe.

Chas. A. Sisler, Missouri representative for the Pepsin Syrup Company, received a touring car from his firm as a Christmas present. Mr. Sisler says that it pays to push Syrup Pepsin.

C. A. Iorns, president of Meyer Brothers Employes' Mutual Aid Association, is a very efficient officer and gives close attention to various problems concerning the welfare of the association.

Thomas B. Chambers, Ph. G., visited home folks at Union City, Tenn., the early part of January. Mr. Chambers is the prescriptionist at Lauman's Pharmacy, 2101 South Jefferson avenue, St. Louis.

W. Ochse, in charge of the Salesmen Department of the Meyer Brothers Drug Co., is a member of the Board of Governors of the Missouri Athletic Association, which is erecting a new $600,000.00 home.

December 28-30, the following organizations met in St. Louis:

The American Association of Anatomists, The American Physiological Society, The American Society of Biological Chemists, The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, and The American Society for Experimental Pathology.

Gottlieb Schmidt, for thirty-five years with the Meyer Brothers Drug Co., celebrated his semi-centennial birthday, January 5. Mr. Schmidt calls on the city trade in the interest of the Sundries Department.

Albert J. Martin, senior student of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, has perplexed his classmates with this question: What is the application of pharmacy to professional ball playing? Mr. Martin has signed up for the season with one of the local drug teams.

The pharmacists of St. Louis have been prompt in their study of the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Law, which

will affect every proprietor in the city, beginning with March 1, 1915. Drug clerks must also study the law in order to make certain that its provisions are followed when selling narcotics.

Dr. W. A. Noyes, head professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois and editor-in-chief to the American Chemical Society, gave an address on "The Electron Theory," at the Academy of Science of St. Louis, 3817 Olive street, January 18. A number of pharmacists were present. Those desiring to receive notices of future meetings should inform the academy at once.

Carl F. Rinderer, Ph. G. '11, requests correspondence with his classmates at 2000 South Broadway.

Brice Allen Ballou is pleasantly located with A. F. Aszmann, at Spring avenue and Juniata street, where he will be pleased to hear from classmates.

Sidney Willette, Ph. G., has purchased the Barkhoefer Pharmacy, at 4201 North Eleventh street, and is busy becoming acquainted with the trade. Mr. Willette is a natural born salesman and a very competent pharmacist.

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CARL F. RINDERER

Missouri Delegation to Illinois.-The Illinois Pharmaceutical Association will meet at Centralia, early in June, 1915. It is proposed to have a delegation from Missouri spend one day at the meeting. I hope that the Missouri members of the A. Ph. A. will be largely represented in this party. Professor W. B. Day, General Secretary of the A. Ph. A., and Dr. James H. Beal, retiring General Secretary and editor of the Journal of the A. Ph. A., will be in attendance at Centralia. Persons interested in the trip are requested to communicate with H. M. Whelpley, Treasurer of the A. Ph. A., 2342 Albion Place, St. Louis, Mo.

The A. Ph. A. St. Louis Branch met at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, January 15. "Commercial Pharmacy," was the subject of an address by Alfred W. Pauley. It was illustrated with lantern slides and dealt with conditions in pharmacy as they exist today. "The Sale of Poisons," was considered in a contribution by William Mittelbach, of Boonville, Mo. H. M. Whelpley briefly outlined the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Law. Among those present

were:

E. A. Sennewald, Solomon Boehm, Chas. Renner, Dr. H. D. Harrell, Albert J. Martin, C. H. Bierman, Farrar M. Wilson, Mrs. C. Busch, W. Ernest Martin, Mrs. A. W. Pauley, P. B. Dashiell. Dr. H. M. Whelpley, Dr. O. F. Claus. Dr. O. A. Wall, Sr., P. L. Gain, Julius C. Hoester, Miss Rose Miller, A. W. Pauley, Miss Lydia Batdorf, Chas. H. Horton, Miss Grace Steingardt, J. W. Mackelden, Mrs. C. T. Buehler, Carl T. Buehler.

THE WAY TO MAKE WISHES COME true is to limit them in ratio to one's ability and willingness to work for their realization.

STRICTLY UNOFFICIAL

Do Not Be Disgruntled because you are not a millionaire, if all people were millionaires-who would wash our shirts?-[E. A. Sennewald.

Man Was Born to Labor and the bird to fly. The body is nailed down to one single grain of sand on the seashore of the Infinite while thought wings its way through the unexplored Deep.-[W. A. Hickey. Contains the Whole Alphabet.-The following is said to be the shortest sentence that contains every letter in the English alphabet: "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs." It was evidently composed on the day before the Fourth.-[Spatula.

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Her immediate procedure killed the doctor's dream of bliss;
When he heard about the matter he was chilled.
For the girl took the prescription he had sent for a kiss
To a very handsome druggist to be filled.

-[Boston Transcript. Here's to Mother, Boys!-Here's to our mother! Let every honest man and boy in the land respond to the toast. Well has it been said: "Honor the dear old mother." Time has scattered the snowy locks on her brow, plowed deep furrows on her cheeks, but is she not sweet and beautiful still? The lips may be thin and shrunken, but those are the same lips that pressed yours after you had said the little prayer she taught you when you were put with loving care in your little "trundle-bed" at night. The same lips that have kissed many a hot tear from childish cheeks, and they are the sweetest lips in the world. The eye is dim, yet it glows with the soft radiance of holy love which can never fade. Ah, yes, she is a dear old mother! The sands of life are nearly run out, but, feeble as she is, she will go further and reach down lower for you than any other being on earth. You cannot walk into a midnight where she cannot see you; you cannot enter a prison whose bars will keep her from you; you can never mount a scaffold too high for her reach that she may kiss and bless you in evidence of her deathless love. The mother is the last one to forsake you. So love her tenderly, and cheer her declining years with holy devotion.-[John H. Brown, Atchison, Kans.

ODD ORDERS

Easy to Read was the order which A. R. Scheu, Kenwood Springs, Mo., received, as follows: "Pinoral tea."

Decide What You Would Dispense and then write direct to Sam Farrar, Lebanon, Mo., and tell him how you would fill the following order: "Dotaffuim

Dermandanate."

What Would You Sell on such an order? "Have you got any of them pink pills put up in a whiskey bottle by an Iowa man?" Send your answer to Byron H. Beatty, Kirksville, Mo. He filled the order and will appreciate your guess.

A Deviation in the Routine of Pharmacy was found by H. G. Stalecker when he filled the following order:

"rocking montain save,"

"Antaventing," (Antophlogistine)

"Sanapithe" (Sal Hepatica).

Verbal were the following orders, filled by Dr. J. J. Paris, of the Paris Drug Co., Rosiclare, Ill.: "Andy spectic healin oil, Antic septic healin oil, Milk and mush, Mathartic pills,

Huckle sunny perfume,
Bromide of potticism."

Some Funny Orders.

S. M. Reinardy, Burlington:

10c Eucuplysus.

Collyer's Pharmacy, Madison:

Sadlet Podver.

C. A. Smith & Co., Beloit:

Cortecipement and paramala potish.

W. E. Pomroy, Kenosha:

That is not the kind that I want. I want the one
that you put on baby's mouth when he crys,
without any hole.

C. A. Groffman, Manitowoc:
Bottle phardnox to gurle.
Downer's Pharmacy, Appleton:
Arlf Oill.

Marsh Bros., Neenah:

Gros of supliment, wood achole for bed bugs. Dana & Worm, Fond du Lac:

Wachesal and arnake.

3 pounds apsom salts. 2 oz. Knox Vomity. Kundert & Steinle, Madison: Castoryl.

Camporgum.

Flourdry watter.

Fred Esay, Milwaukee: 10c wich hachal.

Say give my boy a stick of licorice and I will bring it up tonight my payda for I have a cold if you please.

-[The Pill.

MARKET REVIEW

Saint Louis, January 30, 1915.

"Pessimism is becoming less fashionable than it was and there is a better undertone trade in Saint Louis," says the Mechanics American National Bank of Saint Louis, in its February financial letter. Continuing, this letter forecasts as follows: "There is a more confident tone to business in this territory and in certain industries such as iron, steel, and in the railway equipment line there has been increased activity. Business men generally are showing greater hopefulness and that intangible but highly important factor known as sentiment appears to be arrayed once more on the side of better times. Conditions in the cotton belt are improving and the depression in the South generally is not nearly so acute as it was a few weeks ago. The effect of the increase of two cents the pound in the price of cotton since November 1st, with the corresponding advance in the price of cotton seed has been felt in every line of business."

Owing to the protests of certain of the nations engaged in the great European struggle less and less is heard of the many rush orders placed in this country for general supplies and munitions of war, which are increasing as time advances and involve sums of great magnitude, with the indication that orders will enlarge rather than diminish unless this great struggle comes to an end in the immediate future. The effect of this great volume of business has been far reaching and is spread over almost the entire area of the United States, but it is not alone from this we must look for a greater and increasing volume of business, but from those countries who in the past have looked to those countries engaged in the war for their supplies of merchandise and for this business, our great manufacturing concerns and business houses must reach out for. Once diverted from its usual channels and with satisfactory sources of supply established in this country we cannot only retain a great volume of business gained under the conditions, but look forward to an increase with each succeeding year, which will bring with it added prosperity.

The prosperity of any country under normal conditions is measured largely by its crop returns and the value thereof and our country is no exception, for the very foundation of our national prosperity is represented by the value of all crops and animal products for which the agriculturist is responsible and in this connection the following data furnished by the Bureau of Crop Estimates of the United States Department of Agriculture is of interest. Of the entire cultivated area of the United States 92% is devoted to the production of fourteen principal crops and for these the area harvested in 1914 (300,782,000 acres) is about the same as in 1913. The actual increase being about one-tenth of one per cent and

about two and four-tenths per cent larger than the area harvested in 1912.

The production per acre of crops in the aggregate for 1914 was nearly ten per cent larger than in 1913; over two per cent larger than the ten year average, but about eight per cent smaller than in 1912. This indicates the favorable nature of the season. In total production of the fourteen crops. 1914 aggregate is about ten per cent larger than in 1913 and six per cent smaller than in 1912, which year stands as one of the greatest aggregate productions in the United States. In 1914 two important crops exceeded all previous records; Wheat, with 891,000,000 bushels, following the 1913 record of 763,000,000 bushels, and cotton, with 15,966,000 bales, the previous record being 15,693,000 bales in 1911.

The value per acre of all enumerated crops averaged about $16.44 in 1914, compared with $16.52 in 1913, and $16.15 in 1912. The prosperity of farmers depends not so much on the amount of production as the total amount of money received for what they produce. In explanation of this we have in the 1914 cotton crop the largest ever produced, but its value to the farmer is much less than the value of any crop in recent years -on the other hand the corn crop in total production is only a moderate one, having been exceeded four times in the past ten years, but the high prices prevailing make it the most valuable corn crop ever produced. The total value of all crops produced in 1914 was slightly less than in 1913 on account of the reduced value of the cotton crop. The estimated value at the farm of all crops for which the census of 1910 reported values reaches the great total of $6,024,480,000.00 except for 1913, when the production was approximately $88,279,000.00 greater than in 1914, the total crop value of 1914 is $200,000,000.00 above the highest total heretofore reached, which was in the great production year of 1912.

The estimated value of the animal products of the farm in 1914 is distinctly higher than in 1913, which was itself a record year in the value of this class of products. The total estimated value of the animal products of the farm and of the farm animals sold and slaughtered in 1914 is placed at $3,828,456,000.00. The grand total value of all crops, farm animal products and farm animals sold and slaughtered in 1914, according to the detailed estimates that have been made is $9,872,936,000.00. This amount is $83,000,000.00 above the grand total for 1913, which was in itself greatly above the highest total previously reached.

In this same publication the purchasing power of the farmer is treated at length and as many of our readers depend upon the agriculturist for a large volume of their business the following information gathered from this article will prove of interest. The purchasing power of the farmer depends not only on the money value of what he produces but also upon the money value of what he buys. From 1899 to 1909 (census years) the money value of one acre

of the farmer's crop increasd 72.7%, but in the same period the money value of the articles usually purchased by the farmers had increased 12.1%-consequently as a result of the greater increase of the price of what the farmer sold than in the price of what he bought, the net increase of the purchasing power of the produce of one acre was 54%, and that is, one acre of the farmer's crop in 1909 could by 54% more of the articles usually bought by farmers than in 1899. In 1913 the value of one acre of the farmer's crop averaged about 1.2% higher than in 1909, whereas the value of articles bought by farmers advanced in the same time about 5.7%. These estimates are based upon the value per acre of all the important crops combined, considering corn, wheat and cotton separately, it is found the purchasing power of one acre of corn in 1913 was about 12% greater than in 1912, 12% greater than in 1909 and 58% greater than in 1899; that the purchasing power of one acre of the 1914 corn crop is probably 2% greater than that of the 1913 crop. The purchasing power of one acre of wheat in 1913 was the same as in 1912, 24% less than in 1909, and 40% more than in 1899. The purchasing power of one acre of the 1914 wheat crop is probably about 34% greater than that of the 1913 crop. The purchasing power of one acre of cotton (excluding the value of seed) in 1913 was 3% less than in 1912, 5% less than in 1909, and 40% more than in 1899. The purchasing power of one acre of 1914 cotton crop is probably about 35% less than that of the 1913 crop. Upon the basis of the purchasing power of the value of one acre of produce, the year 1909 stands as the most prosperout to farmers for the past fifty years for which there are records.

The Harrison Anti-Narcotic Law becomes effective March 1 and as it provides for the sale of Opium, Cocoa Leaves and all their derivatives, which are classed as habit forming drugs, it is a subject of much interest to all druggists at this time and has been treated at length in another part of this publication. The article referred to should be carefully studied, for the articles coming within the meaning of this act can be bought, sold and dispensed only under the provisions of the act and under the rules and regulations formulated by the Treasury Department, to whom the enforcement of this law has been assigned. A careful review of the law and the rules and regulations for its enforcement will assist druggists in avoiding many unpleasant experiences and possible conflict with officials or inspectors who are responsible for the enforcement of the provisions of this Act.

With some exceptions the market for drugs, chemicals and other articles which have been affected by the European War, are gradually adjusting themselves on a basis of supply and demand and for the period under review the list of items on which reductions have been made is only slightly greater than for that of the advances. It is reported the German government has placed an embargo on the

shipment of Potash and its Salts, and although this has not been confirmed, pyrotechnic advances have already been made in the price of Chlorate and Permanganate. The largest producer of Nitrate in this country has withdrawn all prices without offering any explanation, which is looked upon as the possible outcome of this embargo. Phenol is in limited supply in the local markets and with almost a complete embargo on its shipment from foreign sources, the price has advanced sharply with little or none available. In sympathy with this upward movement all derivatives of this coal tar product are higher and included in the list are Salicylic Acid, Soda Salicylate, Methyl Salicylate, Phenyl Salicylate, and other articles of minor importance.

The restricted movement of Opium in the consuming channels has resulted in material reductions, although no change has been made in its derivatives. The future position of Opium, Cocoa Leaves and their derivatives is problematical at this time and values will in a measure depend upon the extent of the restriction imposed by the Harrison AntiNarcotic Law, which becomes effective March 1.

Among other staples which have advanced are Acetanilid on shortage of crude material, Benzoic Acid and Benzoate of Soda on the shortage of Tuluol, a coal tar derivative, Thymol and Thymol Iodide, reflecting an embargo which has been placed on the shipment of Thymol by the warring nations of Europe.

Of the leading staples offered at lower prices, Camphor is particularly interesting at this season of the year when the movement in the consuming channels is at its greatest. Hydrogen peroxide is again lower with the Barium Dioxide more readily available. Quite a list of essential oils are tending to lower levels, owing either to competitive conditions under which they are now offered or from the fact supplies are more readily available from primary

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