Price's Drug Store


Company Names, addresses, dates: 1
  Price's Drug Store, 800 5th Street, Lynchburg VA (1914-1930)

Notes:
Clarence Newton Price (1878-1930)2 owned a drugstore in Lynchburg.1

Before opening his own store, he was a druggist or manager at the following stores:
    1898/99 at Mallan's Drug Store in Lynchburg, 3
    1900-19?? at B.H. Gorrell's Drug Store in Lexington, 3
    1907 at C.H.S. Snead & Co in Lynchburg, 1
    1908/09 at Blencowe's drug store in Lynchburg, 1
    1910-13 at Fifth Street Pharmacy in Lynchburg, 1

Price was a Mason, a Royal Arch Mason, and a Knight Templar. He passed away in 1930.4

Bottles:
price_01 Clear 5.0" (4 oz) bottle embossed:
vertical: 3iv
horizontal in rectangular slugplate: Price's / DRUG STORE / 5th & Federal Sts. LYNCHBURG, VA.
price_02 This is a badly damaged version of the bottle above in a smaller size. It's a clear 4.1" (2 oz) bottle embossed:
vertical: 3ii
horizontal in rectangular slugplate: Price's / DRUG STORE / 5th & Federal Sts. LYNCHBURG, VA.


1 Lynchburg City Directories for years: 1900,07-10,13-21,23,24,26-40
2 Find-a-grave entry for Clarence Newton Price
3 Lexington Gazette, 8-Feb-1899, p.3 "Lynchburg News:"
4 The Roanoke World-News, 28-Nov-1930, p.1 (obituary for C.N. Price)


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