Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1911 — The Pill City. [ARTICLE]

The Pill City.

"Whatever a city makes more of than any other city inhabitants seem proud of,” said a hotel clerk. “Even pills. I don’t see anything in pills particularly to appeal to civic pride, but a guest who registered here yesterday did. In his hurry he forgot to write his residence after his name. I said, ‘Where from?' “ ‘Why, sir,’ he said, ‘l’m from the pill city.’ “ ‘Pill city?' I wondered, for to my knowledge I had never made the acquaintance of that town. “ 'Yes, sir,’ said he, and then he wrote Detroit. “ ‘Detroit,’ Bald our guest, ‘is the head of the pill Industry in this or any other country. We inake more pills in Detroit every year than in any other city in the world.’ “I had heard many glories ascribed to Detroit, but here was a new source of distinction.”