Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — Pill Box Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Pill Box Statistics.

Dtd you know that styles in pill boxes change almost as often as modes for women’s gowns? Well, they do, and the maker of pill boxes has got to keep moving to be up with the times, says a pillbox maker Otherwise he will lose custom. Druggists and musicians are cranky people anyway, but in the matter of pill boxes the former are really exasperating in their demands. You would naturally think that it wouldn't make any difference just how a box was shaped or what color of paper was used so long as a box was neat, would you? But it does. Some druggists won’t use round boxes at all, others won’t buy squares ones, and some want theirs red-coh red, or blue, or green, or white. It isn’t so much the fault of the druggist as of his customers. Druggists tell me that their customers are as cranky about pill boxes as they are about corn cure They want only one sort, and won’t buy from any place where they can t get it. About 350,000 pill boxes are used in this country every day. These cover at least 53,500 worth of pills. Over ten big firms manufacture them.