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later to be known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease

Staff photographer James Estrin was on assignment taking photographs of passengers for an article on higher demand of the city's taxi cabs

a "humble man of science

Old-time Pharmacy Frame Color:Silver " The Times wrote aboutEarly drug stores offered much more than just bottles of pills, as seen here at the Collins Pharmacy in Islip, N. Y., circa 1915. You could count on a soda fountain, a barrel of root beer, glass display cases and tables and chairs. The local pharmacists made all medications on the spot for ailing customers, who probably needed a tall glass of soda to wash down the strong medicine. Soda fountains began to decline after Prohibition was repealed in the