Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1892 — PHI Box Statistics. [ARTICLE]

PHI Box Statistics.

Did 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 crank* people anyway, but in the matter of pill boxes the former are really exasperating in their demands. You would naturally think that It wouldn’ 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-cob 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 thej are about corn cure They want on)? one sort, aud won’t buy from any place where they can t get it. About 250,00 pill boxes are used in this country ever, day. These cover at least 8?, 500 worth 9f pills. Oyer ten big firms manufacture them.