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A  Retrospect  of  Pharmacy. 
1  Am.  Jour.  Pharrru 
1  September,  1905. 
Then  the  busy  times  with  other  compounds,  as  opodeldoc,  Lee's, 
Anderson's  and  Hooper's  pills,  Dalby's  carminative,  Wistar's  cough 
lozenges  and  the  various  essences,  lemon,  peppermint,  cinnamon,  etc. 
An  old  drug  label,  reproduced  on  page  425,  gives  an  idea  of  the 
peculiar  style  of  advertising,  common  to  popularize  preparations  put 
upon  the  market.  It  is  printed  from  a  copper  plate,  engraved  by 
Samuel  Tiller,  one  of  the  best  engravers  of  Philadelphia,  and  portrays 
a  lady  and  gentleman  in  the  costume  of  the  period  admiring  the 
natural  beauty  of  a  cascade,  the  white  foam  from  the  tumbling  stream 
suggestive  of  the  effect  which  may  be  expected  to  follow  the  "  mix 
which  is  to  be  drank  immediately,"  according  to  the  directions 
attached. 
The  Troth  store  for  many  years  became  a  favorite  shop  for  the 
practical  education  of  apprentices,  numbering  among  its  proteges 
some  who  subsequently  were  counted  leading  druggists  of  the  city. 
A  few  called  to  mind  were  Alexander  Dawson,  Robert  B.  Potts, 
Claudius  B.  Linn,  Clement  Cresson,  Thomas  Mitchell,  Peter  Troth 
Wright,  Richard  M.  Kirkbride,  James  Norris  Dixon,  John  Paul, 
Joseph  Trimble,  Armon  Davis,  Jacob  Lybrand  Smith,  Wistar  C.  Par- 
sons, Alonzo  W.  Parsons,  Samuel  Yarnall  Kemp,  Samuel  Bines  and 
John  F.  Sheaff. 
The  block  from  Sixth  to  Seventh  on  Market  Street  was  a  very  busy 
location  in  the  early  thirties.  At  the  southeast  corner  of  Seventh 
was  the  grocery  store  of  Gillespie  &  Ellmaker  and  Gillespie  &  Jones, 
and  at  the  opposite  corner  across  Seventh,  where  the  bank  now 
stands,  was  that  of  Simon  Gratz  ;  these  were  headquarters  in  that 
location  for  the  four-  and  six-horse  Conestoga  wagon  transports  to 
Pittsburg. 
Those  long,  white  canvas-covered  vehicles,  drawn  by  fine,  sturdy 
horses  bedecked  with  showy  harness  and  sets  of  open-mouthed  clap- 
per, jingling  bells  attached  to  the  hame  tops,  were  a  feature  among 
the  old  Philadelphia  customs  still  remembered  by  many  yet  living, 
but  to  the  younger  generation,  accustomed  to  fast  freight  transpor- 
tation, it  seems  almost  inconceivable  that  our  commercial  interests 
could  have  flourished  while  dependent  upon  twenty-one  days'  mer- 
chandise carriage  to  Pittsburg. 
Next  to  the  Gillespie's  store  on  the  east  was  J.  K.  Eyre,  grocery 
and  forwarding  house;  then  came  Perry  O'Daniel,  watchmaker; 
Henry  Troth  &  Co.;  Geo.  Miller,  confectioner ;  J.  B.  Barras,  cloth- 
