THE
DIXIE DRUGGIST
A Monthly Publication Issued to theRetail Drug Trade of the South
MAY, 1913
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THE DIXIE DRUGGIST
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HICKORY, N. C.
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The Dixie Druggist
A Monthly Magazine for Southern Druggists.
“Covers the South like the Sunshine”
Blackwelder-Riddle Building
Hickory, N. C.
Vol. 1
May, 1913
No. 2
“Is There a Crisis in the Drug Business”
By JOHN I. KELLY
A Paper Read Before the Baltimore Retail Druggists Association
Monday, March 10, 1913
Mr. President and Gentlemen:
The subject, “Is There a Crisis in theDrug Business,” which your president hasunfortunately selected me to discuss, is sovitally interesting and important to eachof you that I suppose there may be a greatmany here who have given much morethought, and are so far more versed on thesubject than I, that any feeble effort of minewould suggest no new thought, supply nonew theories or give subject-matter withwhich you are not already familiar. However,as I have been requested to give apersonal opinion, I ask your indulgence,particularly if my efforts do supply nothingnew and are only in the nature of a review.
The “Crisis in the Drug Business,” referredto and discussed by many, pro andcon, seems to pertain particularly to theprescription end of it, and as such will bemost considered. “Crisis,” meaning a “vitallyimportant or decisive state of things, thepo