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...advertising itself as “a drugstore, first, last and always,” Billings and Stover started in 1854 to roll pills and three wars have not stood in its way. Over 1000 prescriptions were filled that first year—the same number are packaged now in a week. An all-around pharmacy from the first, the store initially provided “foreign leeches of recent importation” to take care of black eyes in the days when John Harvard had no green bag to swing. Swelling eyelids didn’t keep pace with...
...past is very much a part of Billings and Stover. One wall is lined with duplicates of every prescription filled since 1854, and pictures of the namesakes are over the door. The past also saw a prosperous soda business, and barrels of coke syrup were stored in the basement, alongside other essential philtres. A new fountain was installed in 1908, the first soda shop in the Square. But the owners made little concession to the straw-sucking customers, for no stools stood in front of the fountain, and soda and candy were primarily a sideline. Two years ago, the prescription...
Madanian spends her days making and selling fudge. She goes through 150 pounds a week at Billings & Stover Apothecary, the gritty, old-fashioned Brattle Street soda fountain she owns and operates...
...past 140 years, Billings & Stover has been a drug store that filled prescriptions at the back counter and sold cosmetics, exotic perfumes and ice cream in the front...
...woman who struggled to keep Billings & Stover alive in recent years has announced the store will close its doors forever...