Abstract
During the Christmas season of 1931, a smalltown drug store fell afoul of the federal government over its popular but problematic patent medicine, San-Cura. E.K. Thompson & Sons Drug Store was founded in 1866, in Titusville, Crawford County, and by the 1930s it was one of the city’s most well-regarded businesses. Correspondence now in the collection of the Titusville Historical Society demonstrates the tension that existed between private institutions and the government as to who was best qualified to care for the American public in the Progressive Era.
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