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Davis’ Detroit Cork Screw Company exhibited in the Manufacturers and Liberal Arts Building

in department H, group 119 “Vaults, Safes, Hardware, Edge Tools, Cutlery”, section P, blocks 3

and 4.

In another

Pharmaceutical Era

issue, we find some surprises about the Detroit Corkscrew

Company:

“One of the most useful novelties

ever introduced among the drug

trade is the Davis Corkscrew, made

by the Detroit Corkscrew

Company, Brush and Champlain

Streets, Detroit,

Mich. As a

decided improvement over the old

style

cork screw

it has few equals.

It is a perfect pocket piece, made

of steel, nickel plated, and works

with such ease that a woman or

child can pull corks which require

the strength of a pugilist to extract

with the old style screw. Several

styles of screws are made by the

company, but the ‘Davis’ is the most complete. With it you

can cut the wire on the neck of a bottle, extract the cork with

little exertion, and sharpen pencils with a strong steel knife

blade attached. The screw is illustrated in the company's ‘ad’

in this Issue. A second screw, without knife, is a handy little

device, also. The company are now supplying this style to

the Welch Grape Juice Co., Greenway Bottling Co., Pabst

Brewing Co. and other large bottlers, who have their trade

mark stamped on them, and give them away as

advertisements. For such purposes they are cheap and very

desirable. Many large orders are being received from

jobbers. The

Columbus Power

Corkscrew, the

Straight Shank

Cut Worm

Screws, Greely's

Cork Extracter [sic] and the Puddefoot Power Screws

are also made by the company. They have an

exhibition of their goods at the World's Fair and at the

home works are turning them out by the hundreds.

Retail druggists would do well to bear in mind these

useful articles, and place an order for them at the

earliest opportunity. Mention the E

RA

when writing.”

Greely Extractors