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action Acts appear applications for liquor asked attention back room Board of Pharmacy Board of Registration Boston bottle Brockton called certificate of registration charge chief of police convicted counsel doctors drinking drug business drug store druggists duty East Boston evidence examination fact fifteen days fined one hundred formal complaint Found one store four gallons glass granted H. M. WHITNEY Haverhill hearing hundred dollars illegal sales intoxicating liquors Investigated complaint lager beer license commission liquor business liquor certificate liquor license liquor nuisance liquor sales macist medicines mortar and pestle notified oath one-dollar license party pharmacy laws physician police court premises prescription President proper person proprietor raided received record refused registered pharmacist Registration in Pharmacy revoked altogether Salem sales of liquor saloon sixth-class license sold liquor store found suspended Tartaric acid tion violation visited every drug whiskey Worcester
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Page 39 - ... shall be made before the article is delivered and shall at all times be open to inspection by the officers of the district police and by the police authorities and officers of cities and towns; but no sale of cocaine or its salts shall be made except upon the prescription of a physician.
Page 19 - Defendant testified, said he had worked in this place nine months ; that he did not engage to attend to the back room ; that he was paid fifteen dollars a week and a commission amounting to two or three dollars a week extra. When asked why he gathered up these things and threw them into the sink, said, " I was waiting on two customers, and did not go into the back shop to stop it before.
Page 28 - I am aware of one thing, that my reputation is not good ; but I have yet to find a man that can come to my face and accuse me of such and such a thing. I believe from the bottom of my heart that these laws have been made to protect a legitimate druggist ; and I believe, if we had had this protection...
Page 54 - November report was convicted and ordered to pay a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars.
Page 28 - I want the cause of that ; you swear under oath that your sales were from twenty to thirty a day ; did you not then offer an inducement for other stores to come in and get part of your liquor business ; were you not responsible for that? A. I don't believe I was. Q. Do you think the one-dollar license ever contemplated twenty, thirty or forty sales a day?
Page 14 - ... company stationed now? — A. At Fort Sam Houston, Tex. Q. Have you any official position in that company? — A. I am first sergeant of Company M, sir. Q. Were you with your company when it was stationed at Fort Brown, in Brownsville, in 1906 ? — A. Yes, sir. Q. Did you go there with your company? — A. No, sir; I did not. Q. How long have you been in the service? — -A. Something over six years and three months, sir. Q. Do you remember when your company went there? — A. I was out of the...
Page 2 - ... increase of fraud, deception and crime, and protect the people from the reckless and ignorant dispensing of drugs, medicines and poisons. The Board entered upon this educational work and control of increase by issuing, as required by the law, certificates of registration in pharmacy to all who had been in business on their own account or had had three years of practical experience. In 1887 this law was so amended that certificates of registration were granted to those only who could pass a satisfactory...
Page 2 - Many refused to take 201823 this license, for obvious reasons. In 1878 the sixth-class or special druggist's license, fee one dollar, was created. This license required a complete record of all sales, date, residence, kind, quantity, price, use and signature of purchaser. This was most just, wise, and timely legislation ; but then, as now, some bad, unscrupulous persons, defiers of the law, civil and moral, soon engaged in the drug business. The prohibition vote in some cities and towns caused in...
Page 28 - I believe, if we had had this protection live or ten years ago, I would not have been to this trouble ; anybody, particularly in , that wanted to start up a drug store, would do so. Q. What amount of liquor business have you done ? A. I am not prepared to answer that ; I know I did not do as much as some other druggists. Q. Some twenty or thirty sales a day? A. Very likely I did. Q. If I understand you, those stores in opened largely for the liquor business ? A. That is my impression. Q. Now I want...
Page 27 - I think more of you as a druggist than those parties, but I am in it for money, and they pay me more than you are willing to pay.