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Medicine bottle
Date: between 1941 and 1945
Small brown glass medicine bottle containing vitamin C (ascorbic acid) pills. The bottle has an aluminum screw-on lid and a paper label around the exterior. Col. James C. Hughes may have acquired the pills while being held as a Japanese Prisoner of War during World War II. Born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1888, Hughes served in the Mexican Border Conflict, World War I, and World War II. During the latter conflict, he commanded a Philippine regiment (Filipino soldiers led by American officers), which surrendered in 1942 on the Bataan peninsula. Hughes spent the next 41 months in various Japanese P.O.W. camps. He was liberated by Russian forces at Camp Hoten, Manchuria, in 1945. Hughes died in 1964 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Medicine bottle
Creator: The A.B. Seelye Company
Date: between 1919 and 1926
Empty clear glass bottle for Seelye's Wasa-Tusa, "For Man and Beast, Internal and External." The A.B. Seelye Company of Abilene was established in 1890 and incorporated in 1897. It became one of the few large patent medicine concerns in the central prairie states. Wasa-Tusa was first released around 1890. The Obear-Nester Glass Company of East St. Louis used the Square-N mark from 1915 until 1978. This bottle came from a drug store and soda fountain in Delia, Kansas.
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Medicine bottle
Creator: The Randolph Box and Label Company
Date: between 1906 and 1925
Bottle of Kurtz's Electric Oil, a patent medicine liniment made by the Kurtz Medicine Company of Fort Scott, Kansas. Glass bottle with paper label is stopped with a cork and still contains 4 mm of brown liquid. Also includes the orginal paper box. David Haynes Kurtz (1856-1923) came to Fort Scott from Pennsylvania in 1886. His drug store was located at 6 North Main Street, and he eventually expanded the business to include wholesale patent medicine.
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Medicine bottle
Creator: The Abilena Company
Date: between 1913 and 1919
AbilenA Water. Brown bottle with tin cap and yellow, red, and blue paper label. Bottle is about half full of clear liquid with white sediments at bottom. AbilenA Water was drawn from a well in northern Willowdale Township, Dickinson County. It was first bottled by P.H. Halleck and H.E. Ellison in 1900. Their original company, the Abilene Drug Company, was reorganized as the AbilenA Company in 1901 with a capital stock of $10,000. At that time the water sold for $0.25 per bottle. The company headquarters moved to Chicago in 1919. Advertisments for the water disappear from newspapers in the mid 1940s. This bottle came from the drug store of long-time Hutchinson druggist Terry L. Foltz.
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