Paregoric Medicine Bottle Pembroke MA Paper Label Opium

Description

Paregoric Medicine Bottle Pembroke MA Paper Label Opium
6.25 inch tall aqua bottle
Original paper label
“
Pure Paregoric Prepared by E. B. Jones E. Pembroke Mass
”
Bottle is in very good condition with a tiny chip on the base (see photo). Label is also in very good condition with pencilled price of .25.
E(
dwin) B(aker) Jones (1858- 1941) appears in Federal Census records: 1870 in school age 12; 1880 clerk in store age 22; 1900 day laborer; 1910 foreman, own account; 1920 farm laborer; 1930 salesman roadside stand; 1940 age 82 hours worked in 1939= 0
He lived on Elm Street, East Pembroke in 1940, and this bottle came out of an ancient home on Elm Street many years ago.
Based on his census records we speculate Jones bottled his paregoric during the late 1800
’
s.
You can be sure that there are few of these bottles around!
_gsrx_vers_1292 (GS 8.3.6 (1292))