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cian was a passing fad, and that the old days of tinctures and fluid extracts would return in full force.

Never!

The handwriting is on the wall, and it conveys a sharp warning to the druggist. Will he heed it? Will he remain the source of supply to the physician, or will he drop out of touch with the medical profession, out of harmony with medical advance, and will he allow the heart and soul of his business to drift away from him as the years roll on?

A COMMON ERROR.

When we advise druggists to make a depreciation charge of 10 per cent every year on their fixtures, and to enter this item in the annual expense account, they frequently reply that such a charge is excessive-that in ten years the fixtures would then be entered upon their records as being of no value. This answer, of course, is based on a misunderstanding of the situation.

In writing off depreciation from fixtures you take 10 per cent the first year, leaving 90 per cent; the second year you take 10 per cent of the 90, leaving 81 per cent; the third year you take 10 per cent of 81, leaving 73 per cent; and so on down the line. At the end of ten years you would have a valuation left representing about 35 per cent of the original cost.

And this is all the fixtures are worth-perhaps more than you could get for them if you were to sell them.

tising section of this issue of the BULLETIN. Look up the announcement-and then decide to capture one or more of the awards!

HARRISON LAW INFORMATION.

We continue to receive a great many personal letters every month asking us to clear up moot points in the interpretation of the Harrison antinarcotic act. For the convenience of our readers we have printed a brochure dealing comprehensively with the law and its interpretation by the courts and by the officers in Washington. The booklet is logically arranged, thoroughly classified, and so indexed that a man may find at once just what he wants. We shall be glad to send a copy post-paid for 25 cents to any reader of the BULLETIN. Each copy is punched with a hole so that it may be hung up near the prescription desk.

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ARE YOU GOING TO GRAB ONE OF OUR

PRIZES?

Did you notice that we were running seven prize contests this year, and offering a total of 31 prizes? We are after some rattling good papers on the following subjects:

"How to Meet Big Competition." "Blue Sky I Have Bought."

"Luck as a Factor in My Business Career." "My Funniest Experience."

Good Articles on Salesmanship.

In addition to these subjects for papers, we offer 13 prizes for specimens of camera work done by amateurs with instruments sold by druggists, and three prizes for attractive sets of show-cards.

Full particulars about this series of prizes will be found on pages 22 and 23 of the adver

FOSTER STUDHOLME.

gressive and Republican tickets and when the tally sheet had been footed it was officially announced that Mr. Studholme had received the

most votes.

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MRS. EMMA GARY WALLACE.

secretary and stenographer help her to turn out a large volume of work, and keep things moving when Mrs. Wallace is away on lecture engagements. Men and women in the drug trade will particularly remember Mrs. Wallace as one of the founders and early officers of the W. O. N. A. R. D.

STEPHEN H. BLACK.

ized, Mr. Black becoming secretary and sales manager, and until the time of his death, in his fifty-fourth year, he devoted his energies to perfecting the sales organization of his firm.

A VERSATILE WOMAN.

A NEW EDITOR.

Dr. Edwin L. Newcomb, Associate Professor and head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Botany and Pharmacognosy at the College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, has assumed editorial charge of the Northwestern Druggist, St. Paul, settling into harness the first of the year. Dr. Newcomb has gained prominence in connection with the botanical gardens at Minnesota's University. He has had charge of the work and it has attracted a great deal of attention.

It is stated that Dr. Newcomb's entrance into the field of journalism will not deprive the

The editors of the BULLETIN were quite University of his services. He will, at least for a time, continue his college work in connection

delighted the other day to receive a call from Mrs. Emma Gary Wallace of Auburn, N. Y. She was on her way home after delivering a lecture to the women students of the University of Michigan depicting the advantages of pharmacy as an occupation for women.

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with his editorial duties.

The annual convention of the National Association of Drug Clerks will be held in Chicago on the first, second, and third of June.

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One of the Cone Stores, Atlanta, Ga.-E. H. Cone, proprietor.

Twenty thousand persons visited this store on opening day. Cream from an entire herd of Jersey cows is contracted for and used at the fountain and in the lunch and tea rooms.

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This, together with the picture reproduced below, shows the interior of a store in a place containing a population of only 2200 people. The "Hamburg Pharmacy," it is called-Hamburg, New York, twelve miles from Buffalo. F. L. Horton is the proprietor.

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We have made a study of modern Service and system-that's it!"

Mr. Horton has developed an excellent business. The chain store has nothing on us," he asserts. merchandising and adopted many of the chain- and department-store ideas and methods.

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