Bottle Find !

[buckshot]

Hey all, Dug this bottle of local interest the other day. "OSAGE DRUG & JEWELRY CO. PAWHUSKA,OKLA." Old bottle probably dates to the early "teens" ?

 

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[naturegirl]

I have a feeling that's a rare bottle since it's so local, how many could have been made?

 

[buckshot]

I have a feeling that's a rare bottle since it's so local, how many could have been made?

Hey ng, I totally agree! Just 1 sofar!

 

[naturegirl]

I wanna go! post the picture of all your bottle finds, it's nice, and this Okie thread is kinda slow..........

 

[buckshot]

I wanna go! post the picture of all your bottle finds, it's nice, and this Okie thread is kinda slow..........

Happy to oblige ng Here are some of the bottles from the same dig.

I really like the cobalt blue bottles. The blue one on the left is a Milk of Magnesia. The one on far right is slick and the smaller blues are Vicks bottles. The browns are also slick/no name, a Pinex cough syrup bottle,Bayer asprin, Dr. Price's Delicious Flavoring Extract bottle and a small clear Listerine bottle are just a few...
Thanks for looking, buckshot

 

[Charmin]

That is just AWESOME! What a great piece of Pawhuska history, Buckshot.....That find would make my entire year!! Have you located where the Osage Drug & Jewelry store was at?

 

[PikesPeakCharlie]

Nice druggist ! Congrats !!

 

[buckshot]

That is just AWESOME! What a great piece of Pawhuska history, Buckshot.....That find would make my entire year!! Have you located where the Osage Drug & Jewelry store was at?

Hey Charmin, I was pretty excited to find it and was just hoping i could get it home without something happening to it. It is a really neat find. I have never seen one or heard of one till i found this one. Like ng mentioned it's very local and there cant be that many sitting around. Maybe some still in the ground somewhere?
I could'nt find an address for the place. Could you check some of your old phonebooks any info would be appreciated.
buckshot

 

[buckshot]

Nice druggist ! Congrats !!

Thanks PPC, This one has some local flavor to it that makes it interesting.

 

[Charmin]

Hey Charmin, I was pretty excited to find it and was just hoping i could get it home without something happening to it. It is a really neat find. I have never seen one or heard of one till i found this one. Like ng mentioned it's very local and there cant be that many sitting around. Maybe some still in the ground somewhere?
I could'nt find an address for the place. Could you check some of your old phonebooks any info would be appreciated.
buckshot

I looked in the old ConSurvey phone book that I have from 1938 and it wasn't listed.
I have a booklet from a play that the High School Class of 1914 put on and the Osage Drug & Jewelry was a sponsor---their name is at the top of each page of the booklet.

I'll keep looking and see what else I can find for ya!

 

[buckshot]

Hey Charmin, Thanks! That's some good solid date info. Having your business address listed must not have been a big deal. Guess you just ask around?
That's a neat Pawhuska Hgh School play program you have too. I think it compliments my bottle find quite nicely.

Thanks again, buckshot

 

[gazmuth]

I believe it predates 1915. Found an article listing in an August 8, 1915 Pawhuska Newspaper that lists "Freeninn's Rexall Drug and Jewelry"... guessing here, but would imagine that is the same one since it sold drugs and jewelry. Pawhuska was a very incorporated city in 1915, with their own Electric Plant and lots of Natural Gas, so in the early 1900's it was the place to be!

From an 1884 Article about the Osage Nation:

"Pawhuska now has five large general merchandise stores, besides sev-
eral smaller ones, doing a good business, four hotels, three banks, three
drug stores, four meat markets, three exclusively groceries, four livery
barns, three blacksmith shops, six restaurants, three barber shops, four
millinery parlors, four lumber yards, three wagon yards, two photograph
galleries, two bakeries, two gents' furnishing stores, two racket, and sev-
eral smaller stores and many roomiing and boarding houses sufficient to
entertain all comers till the lot sale, when the population may double in the
next year."