No. 13. Patent 920,931. DISPENSING APPARATUS. George A. Donnelly, Chicago, Ill. Filed Oct. 5, 1908.

No. 14. Patent 922,307. ATOMIZER. Charles E. Michael, Fostoria, O. Filed Aug. 3, 1908.

No. 15. Patent 921,345. DRAFT-ARM. Oscar Bauer, Chicago, Ill., assignor to The Liquid Carbonic Company, Chicago, Ill. Filed Aug. Aug. 3, 1908.

No. 16. Patent 920,227.

AUTOMATIC CLOSER FOR POWDER-RECEPTACLES. Daniel Webster, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa. Filed March 14, 1908. No. 17. Patent 922,413. VACUUM NURSINGBOTTLE. Paul O. E. Friedrich, Philadelphia, Pa., assignor to Caloris Manufacturing Co., a corporation of Delaware. Filed Feb. 6, 1909.

No. 18. Patent 921,251. PROCESS OF EXTRACTING ESSENCES AND TINCTURES FROM VANILLA BEANS. Elton M. Howell, New York, N. Y. Filed July 11, 1906.

Why Called Punch.

The term "punch," as applied to a beverage, is derived from the Indian word "punji," or "five," referring to the five ingredients of which it is composed - spirit, water, lemon, spice and sugar. The Punjab, in India, is so named from its being a region with five great rivers.

Bargains in Fountains.

The American Soda Fountain Company of Boston, advertise in this issue of THE SPATULA special bargains in rebuilt soda fountains. It will pay any. one who is even only partially interested to look into their proposition. The season is opening brightly for soda and a new fountain is a great drawing card. They advertise immediate shipment on these specials which means much at this time of the year. Prices have been cut extremely low on these wall apparatus and they are remarkably good-looking to the eye, as well as being good.

Looks Forward.

I am much pleased with THE SPATULA and look forward to its coming.

J. ROE TURNER.

Pullman, Wash., June 2, 1909.

Write us something about something. We are always glad to hear from our subscribers. .

Pills and Capsules.

Only one person in fifteen has perfect eyes. One man makes a fortune to eight that become bankrupt in England.

Milk which has stood for over ten minutes in a sick room should never be used.

In France the doctor's claim on the estate of a deceased patient has precedence of all others. "Cash" is said to be derived from the French word caisse, a chest in which money was kept.

At Dundenong, Australia, there is a blue gum tree which has an estimated height of 450 feet. It is believed to be the tallest tree in the world.

If we could penetrate the earth's surface to a distance of two miles, we should find the place where water could not exist except in a state of

steam.

Fish, flies and caterpillars, though frozen solid, retain life because their construction admits of frost expansion without disruption. A freezing temperature only results to them in torpor.

Many crystals when split or crushed give a faint flash of light visible in the dark. Sugar is one of the substances which do this. The cause of this behavior is not very well understood.

Messrs. W. G. Dean & Son, importers and manufacturers and grinders of spices are now located in their commodious new offices and works at 246 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

There are now ten Dow pharmacies in Cincinnati, Ohio. The last addition is located at the corner of Fifth and Main Streets. Miss Dow's success is a good illustration of what it is possible to accomplish in the drug business.

New Liquid Plant.

The Liquid Carbonic Company, through its president, Jacob Baur, and its general superintendent, Oscar Baur, have bought 56 acres of land in the heart of the West Side of Chicago, bounded by the Chicago River, Kedzie Avenue and 31st street. Ground will soon be broken on this tract for a new plant for the Liquid Carbonic Company. This plant will include a soda fountain factory, carbonator factory and machine shop, carbonic gas factory, brass and iron foundries, marble yards and work shops, art glass studios, lumber yard and kilns, fruit and syrup laboratories, etc. The main building will be 1000 feet long and seven stories high, built wholly from reinforced concrete, and having 15 acres of floor space. Although the present plant of the Liquid Carbonic Company is the largest of its kind in the world, this new plant will greatly exceed even the present one, and it will consolidate into one premises three plants that are now widely separated.

The firm expects to have its new plant complete and to move into it in about fifteen months. The location is admirable because it affords both water and rail transportation on raw materials received and finished products shipped. The new plant will have its own docks and vessels may unload direct into the plant without intermediate handling

The Little Giant.

Crushing ice is surely a hard, dirty, disagreeable job, and it takes a great deal of time. The Daven. port Ice Chipping Machine Co., Davenport, Ia., claim that with their Little Giant ice crusher it takes but a few minutes time to crush several hundred pounds or several tons of ice, according to the size machine, saving both time and hard labor, and also quite a per cent of the ice. The ice is as clean as when in the cake and there is no muss and slop. The Little Giant crushers are sold on 30 days' trial and the Davenport Ice Chipping Machine Co. will pay all freight if the machine is not exactly as they represent, or if it is not entirely satisfactory. Write them for the complete illustrative and descriptive catalogue.

The Red Book.

The Red Book Magazine for June contains' among its splendid' short tales, one by William Hamilton Osborne, entitled "The Ruling Passion," which is especially worthy of reading. It is the story of a financier whom fate simply could not keep from becoming a captain of industry. The magazine is published in Chicago.

HOW TO MAKE TABLETS.- By Frank Edell A treatise on the manufacture by retail druggists of all kinds of compressed tablets, together with a large number of practical formula. 25c. (Foreign Is.); with SPATULA 1 year, $1.10 (Foreign 6s.).

No Delay.

Editor of the Spatula - A severe fire May 14 completely destroyed our plant for the manufacture of our "airless" filled capsules and pearls and our stock to a very large extent by water. We have placed orders for the construction of new machinery from our patterns, and the work of repairing the building is also under way. We carry a surplus stock in warehouse to guard against such calamities, and there will be no delay in filling orders for our leading specialties. We expect to have our plant rebuilt and in full running order within the next two months, and will then be ready to take up again the work of capsulating special formulas. H. PLANTEN & SON.

Brooklyn, N. Y.

Burr McIntosh's.

This magazine has become a great American art magazine. It is one of the handsomest publications in the world and has no rival on this side of the Atlantic. Its recent issue containing reproductions in colors of the famous Sorolla pictures, was a wonderful piece of work. Considering the cost of production, it would seem as if the magazine at 35 cents were practically given away.

NEW SODA DRAUGHT

Modernize your fountain. Customers admire the rapid operation and novel style of action. Greatest soda server in a rush ever invented. Cannot leak. Booklet tells "why"; send for copy.

ROBERT M. GREEN & SONS, 1415 Vine Street, Philadelphia.

The American.

The June number of this periodical is one of the very best its publishers have issued. Its leading feature is another one of Hugh S. Fullerton's articles on baseball. It is entitled "Deciding Moments of Great Games," and it is all about the crucial moments in great baseball struggles and the psychology of the game. It is illustrated with plenty of pictures of the stars of the great leagues. It contains also a most interesting article on "Eugenics, the Science of Breeding Men."

A Good Seller.

It is strange more druggists do not add some of the popular magazines as a side line. They sell well and quickly and afford a good profit besides bringing desirable customers into the store. One of the best of the monthlies for this purpose is Smith's Magazine, published by Street & Smith, New York. It is handsomely illustrated, is filled with timely articles and especially strong in snappy, wide-awake, up-to-date fiction. The same publishers also issue People's, which is particularly strong because of numerous and remarkable stage pictures and its longer stories. They also publish Ainsley's, Gunter's and the Popular, all of which have immense sales among the great fiction-loving class.

Status of Ichthyol.

How great the interest taken in Ichthyol still is, in spite of the length of time since it was introduced, is seen from the fact that reports of continued investigations on this special preparation are still being published in medical journals, and also that the demand for the article does not in any way diminish. This may also be the result of the introduction of so many substitutes in the trade, which have not fulfilled the promises made for them, and which have hence necessarily always drawn attention to the original article. Furthermore, the Ichthyol Company won a lawsuit abroad last year in a case where their trade-markes Ichthyol and Sulpho-ichthyolicum had been illegally used for a substitute, and in Berlin they were also successful in a second case before the Kammergericht, wherein it had been claimed that Pisciol and Isarol were chemically identical with Ichthyol. In all cases it was proved that the preparations differed materially from the specialty that the Ichthyol Company market under the name Ammonium "Sulpho-ichthyolate" or "Ichthyol." -Gehe's Handelbericht, 1909.

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You can make the finest Vanilla Tincture (strictly U.S.P.) for a dollar a pint by using our Vanilla Concrete.

If you buy Vanilla Concrete a pint at a time, you can make the tincture for 80 cents a pint.

You know you cannot buy, or make from the beans, a pure, satisfactory Vanilla Tincture at any such price.

This way you make your Vanilla as you need it. No money tied up in surplus stock, no loss of time, no waste of alcohol, Simply mix the Vanilla Concrete, alcohol, syrup and water, and it is ready.

Five cents' worth of Vanilla Concrete makes a gallon of the finest Vanilla syrup for soda fountain you ever saw.

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Profitable Confectionery.

During the last year the public of the United

How much of this money went into your till? Confectionery can be made a very profitable part of your business, if it isn't showing a profit there is something wrong-you aren't handling it right or you aren't handling the right kinds. If you want your candy counter to lead you have got to work up a name for good goods. If you don't it is going to be a trailer-a catch penny counter that is taking up valuable room.

The easiest way to get a name for good confectionery is to handle the kind that already has a good name with people of good taste. In other words, the most profitable confectionery for the wide-awake dealer is the advertised kind. The best advertised kind of first quality confectionery, sold everywhere in this country, is without doubt, Necco Sweets, made by the New England Confectionery Company of Boston. It is surprising that

as reliable, delicious and wholesome by the people of Georgia and Texas and California as well as the people of Boston. It is wonderful to think that even the cross-roads dealer who handles Necco Sweets has as good a reputation for fine confectionery as the dealer in the biggest metropolis.

The Photo Era.

Druggists interested in photography who want a good publication on this subject will find nothing better than the Photo Era, Boston. In the June issue A. E. Swoyer describes an ingenious method of making "Enlarged Copies Direct," while George H. Scheer, M. D., begins an important serial "On the Rendering of Color-Values." There are many other articles and many excellent illustrations.

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