. The Pharmaceutical era . ones occupied considerable space in the city papers ad-?vertising his business, calling attention to the hostilityof the old time druggists and their prophecy of hisfailure. His sales at once rose from $18 to $80 per had previously shrewdly calculated all the difficulties?he would have to encounter, and had laia his entire plansbefore a young and rich banker of the town, who prom-ised to stand him in case of a money crisis, whichJones plainly foresaw. This banker would not have madethis agreement had he not been impressed by the frank-ness, honesty and bus
. The Pharmaceutical era . ones occupied considerable space in the city papers ad-?vertising his business, calling attention to the hostilityof the old time druggists and their prophecy of hisfailure. His sales at once rose from $18 to $80 per had previously shrewdly calculated all the difficulties?he would have to encounter, and had laia his entire plansbefore a young and rich banker of the town, who prom-ised to stand him in case of a money crisis, whichJones plainly foresaw. This banker would not have madethis agreement had he not been impressed by the frank-ness, honesty and business ability of Jones, who, so tospeak, had a map and a diagram of all the events to fol-low, showing approximately the date of his unquestionedtriumph. It is needless to give a history in detail of what fol-lowed, but the obstacles and lack of cash had long beforebeen discounted by Jones—he knew just when this andwhen that was due to happen, and had everything ar-ranged accordingly. His rivals in business gradually. Say, Maude, dont you wisht you was a giraiie?Why, Willie? If your neck was ten feet long ice cream soda wouldtaste good all the way down. went down, some of them succumbed outright, as Joneswent up, for go up he did, in spite of everything andeverybody. That was only six years ago. and now JonesPharmacy is one of the finest in the South, and his stockwill inventory not under $20,000, and his business is in-creasing month by month, and is by far greater than anyof his competitors. A large factor in the success of Jones was the at-tention given to the purchase of his stock. And no drug-gist can well succeed who does not do this, as well asmanufacture every article that can be made in a drugstore. I have devoted much time to the investigation ofprices, and I find some houses sell one or more articleslower than other houses. I select these low-priced arti-cles of each house and find the saving considerable. Takethe one article of F. E. Cascara Sag., and we find notw
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