Word: bromo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Emerson's Bromo Seltzer, Inc. High in Baltimore's skyline is the bottle-capped top of the Bromo Seltzer Tower building which contains the offices of the Emerson Drug Co., manufacturers of Bromo Seltzer since 1891. Last week a new holding company, Emerson's Bromo Seltzer, Inc., was formed to take over Emerson Drug and the Maryland Glass Corp. Once making only Bromo Seltzer bottles, Maryland Glass devotes now only about 25% of its business to the famed blue bottle, has an annual capacity of 72,00,000 bottles. Over the company will still preside rotund, hard...
...soda fountains, lunch counters and, in five stores, complete restaurants, expect a full line of drugs. Customers whisper, their faces impassive as possible, hygienic and illegal requests to the Happiness clerks. The clerks on such frequent occasions are embarrassed. Frankly they explain that at their counters they have only bromo seltzer, aromatic spirits of ammonia, bicarbonate of soda and epsom salts, nothing more...
This last song in Q Minor is to be sung to the contrapuntal clashing of large glasses filled with Bromo Selzer...
...derived many benefits from a clothing store he formerly conducted on Madison Street, near Clark; J. E. Griffith, owner of Canter and of some profitable phosphate beds; W. J. Salmon, shrewd Manhattan real estate operator; William Ziegler Jr., baking powder magnate; Mrs. Margaret Emerson Baker, owner of Rockman, (bromo seltzer) ; I. B. Humphreys, Denver mine-owner; C. Frank Croissant, Florida real estate operator; Mrs. George B. Cox, shrewd wife of a shrewd Ohio politician; and best known of all, a gentleman who peered through his racing-glasses while nearby touts peered at him, recognizing his florid, dignified countenance as that...