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J. Cohen, 05. and A. Cohen, '09, have purchased a fine drug store 

 at Broadway and 178th Street. We wish them luck in the new 

 venture. 



F. J. Snyder, '08, has left the drug' husiness and is the proprietor 

 of the Broadway Auto Supply Co., at 247 South Broadwav. Yonkers, 

 N. Y. 



M. Ostrow, '12, owns a store at the corner of South Street and 

 Newark Avenue, Jamaica, L. I. 



J. Shaftan, '12, works at Hegeman's, 125th Street and Lenox 

 Avenue, N. Y. 



M. De Pasquale, '12, is employed at Schmelz's, 127th Street and 

 Lenox Avenue, N. Y. 



G. C. Deffaa, '12, is with Boericke and Tafel, 42nd Street, near 5th 

 Avenue. 



Rob. Gerstner, '12, is working in Huntington, L. I. 



L. H. Leonhardt, '12, is at Livingston Manor, X. Y. 



R. R. St. Clair, '12, is in his home town, Tagewell, Ya. 



B. Taylor, '12. is in Xewburgh, X. Y. 



C. J. Maid, '12, is working in Rochester, X. Y. 



A. S. Finkelstein, '12. has recently passed the Xew Jersey State 

 Board. 



PEROXIDE PRODUCTION, PAST AND PRESENT.* 



( Continued. ) 



I. S. BREWER, PHAR. D. 



N. Y. C. P. '02. 



Since the introduction of the Foods and Drugs Act, the 



manufacturers using acetanilid have been compelled to designate its 



presence on the label, but before that time the secret of its use by 



the first manufacturer was stolen by an assistant whose curiosity got 



the better of him when he observed his superior introduce a small 



weighed quantity of a white flaky crystalline substance into every 



batch at its completion. It is related that this assistant noted care- 



"Read at the Summer Meeting of the Northwestern Branch of the A. Ph. A., at 

 Winona, Minn., June 19th, 1912. — Reprinted from Jour. A. Ph. A. 



