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Hopkins-Weller Drug €o.We find the following notice of a well known firm in the Globe-Democrat of Saturday:The incorporation of the old house of Geo. K. Hopkins Co. into that of the Hopkins-Weller Drug Company, and their removal from Second Btreet to Main and Washington avenue 1b the most notable event in the drug line. Mr. George K. Hopkins learned the drug buuiness from his boyhood, and was from 1850 to 1879 in the drug business at Alton, 111., the style of the dm being Quigley, HopkinB Sc Oo. The building has a frontage on Main street of 50 feet, running back 150 feet on Washington ave*ue to an alley, and is five Btories high. The basement oontains their whiskies, wines, etc., sponges and chamois, carried in large etoek and kept in sepa-ate dust-proof cases; alBomany heavygoods, besides the Edison system of eleotrio lighting that is employedthroughout the whole building. This house engages gamong, its corps of traveling men one man whose whose sole time is employed in visiting all points of the Mississippi Valley selling sponges and chamois that are imported direct by the house. The second or main floor, contains a sample of all the goods handled by the house. On the third floor is the order department and packing room, where all preparations made by the house are formulated by export chemists.The fourth floor oontains fine drugsjust as they are imported by tho bouse, herbs, plants, roots, essential oils in copper cylinders, etc. The fifth floor contains case goods, patent medicines etc., from which orders are flllod from unbroken packages.At the eleotloii of officers Mr. Oeo. K. Hopkins was made President, Mr. Wm, Hlt; Weller, Vico President and Louis V. Mark, Secretary and Trims -I nrer.
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Alton Daily Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Mon, Feb 17, 1890
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