From Carl Sandburg's "Always The Young Strangers"
First Paydays Chapter
There was the late fall and winter I worked in the drugstore of Harvey A. Craig. I had a key and opened the front door at seven o'clock in the morning. I swept the floors of the store and the prescription room and about half-past seven I would see Mr. Hinman, the pharmacist, come in. I would take a chamois skin and go over the showcases. I took bottles from the prescription room that needed filling and went down in the cellar and turned the spigots of wine barrels and casks of rum and whisky and filled the bottles. There I had my first taste of port wine and claret and found they tasted better than I expected, though I was still leery of what they might do to me. I tasted whiskey and decided it was not for me. There was a twenty-year-old run that was so grand and insinuating and soft and ticklish that I decided it had danger and I never took more than a half-mouthful of it in one day. There were carboys in the cellar. A carboy is the champion of bottles, standing three or four feet high, and the glass two or three inches thick. From the carboys I poured sulphuric acid and muriatic acid, wood alcohol, turpentine, and other stuff needed upstairs.
Galesburg Register Newspaper Obituary
Age 83 years, retired farmer, banker and druggist died today March 20, 1943 in his home 676 North Prairie Street who had recently recovered from a fractured hip. He was vice president of the Bank of Galesburg, Graduate of Knox College class of 1880 with B. A. He later received MA. and then studied medicine. Operated and owned West Drug at 324 East Main Street. Engaged in farming and had extensive land interests in Knox County. For many years stockholder, director and official in Bank of Galesburg. Member of Masonic lodge. The son of the late Judge Alfred M. Craig who served as chief Judge of Illinois for three terms. Survived by his wife, a brother, attorney Charles C. Craig of Galesburg.
First Paydays Chapter
There was the late fall and winter I worked in the drugstore of Harvey A. Craig. I had a key and opened the front door at seven o'clock in the morning. I swept the floors of the store and the prescription room and about half-past seven I would see Mr. Hinman, the pharmacist, come in. I would take a chamois skin and go over the showcases. I took bottles from the prescription room that needed filling and went down in the cellar and turned the spigots of wine barrels and casks of rum and whisky and filled the bottles. There I had my first taste of port wine and claret and found they tasted better than I expected, though I was still leery of what they might do to me. I tasted whiskey and decided it was not for me. There was a twenty-year-old run that was so grand and insinuating and soft and ticklish that I decided it had danger and I never took more than a half-mouthful of it in one day. There were carboys in the cellar. A carboy is the champion of bottles, standing three or four feet high, and the glass two or three inches thick. From the carboys I poured sulphuric acid and muriatic acid, wood alcohol, turpentine, and other stuff needed upstairs.
Galesburg Register Newspaper Obituary
Age 83 years, retired farmer, banker and druggist died today March 20, 1943 in his home 676 North Prairie Street who had recently recovered from a fractured hip. He was vice president of the Bank of Galesburg, Graduate of Knox College class of 1880 with B. A. He later received MA. and then studied medicine. Operated and owned West Drug at 324 East Main Street. Engaged in farming and had extensive land interests in Knox County. For many years stockholder, director and official in Bank of Galesburg. Member of Masonic lodge. The son of the late Judge Alfred M. Craig who served as chief Judge of Illinois for three terms. Survived by his wife, a brother, attorney Charles C. Craig of Galesburg.
From Carl Sandburg's "Always The Young Strangers"
First Paydays Chapter
There was the late fall and winter I worked in the drugstore of Harvey A. Craig. I had a key and opened the front door at seven o'clock in the morning. I swept the floors of the store and the prescription room and about half-past seven I would see Mr. Hinman, the pharmacist, come in. I would take a chamois skin and go over the showcases. I took bottles from the prescription room that needed filling and went down in the cellar and turned the spigots of wine barrels and casks of rum and whisky and filled the bottles. There I had my first taste of port wine and claret and found they tasted better than I expected, though I was still leery of what they might do to me. I tasted whiskey and decided it was not for me. There was a twenty-year-old run that was so grand and insinuating and soft and ticklish that I decided it had danger and I never took more than a half-mouthful of it in one day. There were carboys in the cellar. A carboy is the champion of bottles, standing three or four feet high, and the glass two or three inches thick. From the carboys I poured sulphuric acid and muriatic acid, wood alcohol, turpentine, and other stuff needed upstairs.
Galesburg Register Newspaper Obituary
Age 83 years, retired farmer, banker and druggist died today March 20, 1943 in his home 676 North Prairie Street who had recently recovered from a fractured hip. He was vice president of the Bank of Galesburg, Graduate of Knox College class of 1880 with B. A. He later received MA. and then studied medicine. Operated and owned West Drug at 324 East Main Street. Engaged in farming and had extensive land interests in Knox County. For many years stockholder, director and official in Bank of Galesburg. Member of Masonic lodge. The son of the late Judge Alfred M. Craig who served as chief Judge of Illinois for three terms. Survived by his wife, a brother, attorney Charles C. Craig of Galesburg.
First Paydays Chapter
There was the late fall and winter I worked in the drugstore of Harvey A. Craig. I had a key and opened the front door at seven o'clock in the morning. I swept the floors of the store and the prescription room and about half-past seven I would see Mr. Hinman, the pharmacist, come in. I would take a chamois skin and go over the showcases. I took bottles from the prescription room that needed filling and went down in the cellar and turned the spigots of wine barrels and casks of rum and whisky and filled the bottles. There I had my first taste of port wine and claret and found they tasted better than I expected, though I was still leery of what they might do to me. I tasted whiskey and decided it was not for me. There was a twenty-year-old run that was so grand and insinuating and soft and ticklish that I decided it had danger and I never took more than a half-mouthful of it in one day. There were carboys in the cellar. A carboy is the champion of bottles, standing three or four feet high, and the glass two or three inches thick. From the carboys I poured sulphuric acid and muriatic acid, wood alcohol, turpentine, and other stuff needed upstairs.
Galesburg Register Newspaper Obituary
Age 83 years, retired farmer, banker and druggist died today March 20, 1943 in his home 676 North Prairie Street who had recently recovered from a fractured hip. He was vice president of the Bank of Galesburg, Graduate of Knox College class of 1880 with B. A. He later received MA. and then studied medicine. Operated and owned West Drug at 324 East Main Street. Engaged in farming and had extensive land interests in Knox County. For many years stockholder, director and official in Bank of Galesburg. Member of Masonic lodge. The son of the late Judge Alfred M. Craig who served as chief Judge of Illinois for three terms. Survived by his wife, a brother, attorney Charles C. Craig of Galesburg.
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