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Fountain Drug
New Drug Store
1847
06 30 Messrs. Fountain & Co. will open a drug store in this village about the first of August next. If medicine will prevent it, we see not why the inhabitants of the Upper Rock River Country need in the future shake with the ague, or be troubled with any of the other “ills to which flesh is heir;" for in addition to the facilities about to be offered them to obtain that article, Mr. Johnson, one of the oldest druggists in the country, constantly keeps a good supply on hand. WC
NEW DRUG STORE
WM. C. FOUNTAIN & Co.,
WHOLESALE & RETAIL
Watertown Chronicle, 07 07 1847
DEALERS IN
Drugs, Medicine Wines, (pure! for medical uses only) Paints, Oils, Dye-stuff,
Perfumery, etc., will open a store for the sale of above articles in WATERTOWN
on or about the first of August next.
Physicians,
Druggists, Merchants and all others interested, will please take notice that
the subscribers are PRACTICAL MANUFACTURING APOTHECARIES, and will give their
personal attention to business. Their
Drugs, Chemicals, etc., are carefully selected from the largest importing
houses in the Atlantic cities, and being purchased for cash, can be sold at
such prices as will
CHALLENGE ALL COMPETITION!!!
Prescriptions
and medicines for family use put up with special care, and furnished at all
hours, day or night, and no medicine will be sent from the store without being
correctly and legibly labeled
Country
merchants who deal in drugs and medicines will find it to their interest to
give us a call, and we will save them the trouble and expense of going to
Milwaukee.
WM. C.
FOUNTAIN,
HENRY COOK
1848, Louis Schulz, early druggist, employed by Fountain Durg?
1859
Watertown Democrat, 11 24 1859
1860
Watertown Democrat, 05 24 1860
1860
04 12 Cash Paid for Rags
Printing paper exchanged
for rags. Wrapping paper exchanged for
rags. Stationery exchanged for
rags. Drugs and medicine exchanged for
rags. Paints and oils exchanged for
rags. Highest price paid for rags at
Fountain’s Central Drug Store, Main Street bridge, W.
C. Fountain, Druggist. WD
05 24
Dye Stuffs
For Sale At
Fountain’s Central Drug Store
Main Street Bridge
Alam, Annatts, Muriate
of Tin, Blue Vitriol, Cochineal, Camwood, Cudbear, Fastic,
Cream of Tartar, Copperas, Extract of Logwood, Madder Prussiate of Potash,
Bi-chromate of Potash, Prussian Blue, Ore of
Vitriol WD
08 23 S. E.
Curtiss, Photographic Artist; “rooms over Fountain’s Store, near the bridge, on Main Street.” WD
1861
03 21 Mr. W. C. Fountain has removed [moved] his drug establishment one door east from his old store, in the same block. He has neatly fitted up his store and filled it with a large stock of drugs and medicines. WD
1863 Civil War token, head and tail
1864
03 17 William C. Fountain has just received a fresh supply
of wall paper consisting of all styles and prices. WD
08 25 To Ministers and Lawyers. Constant use of the lungs surely injures them. Bryan’s Pulmonic Wafers can be carried in your pocket, neat, handy and soothing to the irritated lungs. Try them. 25 cents a box, at W. C. Fountain. WD
1866
1866-67, Watertown City Directory, pg 23
Cross References:
1975?, Druggist and
bookseller, 1866, 108 Main St, signage, right side of image, WHS_005_275
1980s late, early 90's, Ghost sign for Fountain's Drug Store, WHS_006_976
Dr. Edward Johnson, Watertown’s first druggist
Watertown
Historical Society Collection
