A: Red rubber hot water bottle, 57.5-inch long red rubber tube, black plastic threaded screw-in top and 2 black plastic 'syringes.' Also a 2-year guarantee slip (7.75 ins. wide x 3.625 ins. long). Ecru paper with green border; on reverse are 5-step directions for use.
B: Lid to box has photo of "Armstrong's 2-Quart Capacity / Topper Combination Syringe / Distributed by Armstrong Cork Company, Lancaster, PA." On both lengthwise sides is the circular company logo with "Made In United States of America." Box lid is colored blue-green and black. Written on top, in red: "XBEF 4.70"
Medicine bottle. Label reads "No. 13 17 [or 19] / prescribed by Dr. [illegible] Filbert / Offices--Front St. between Locust and Walnut Sts. / Directions / Take a teaspoon full 3 times a day / from Sam'l Filbert's Golden Mortar Drug Store/ Front Street Columbia PA" Bottle has dark reddish-brown liquid dried inside.
Empty metal box with black enamel surface. All edges trimmed with 2-inch metal strip bent in half, with mitered corners. Wire handle fits flat into inset in lid. Open edges on both base and hinged lid are rolled wire edges.
Taped inside is a piece of the lid (lock).
On paper taped to front: "Miscellaneous Articles S.C. Slaymaker I, including diaries."
(Part of Samuel Cochran Slaymaker MG 268, donated in 1998.)
