The Dorchester Beacon, October 26, 1907
Franklin Pharmacy
Popular apothecary store, no. 453 Blue Hill Avenue, Roxbury
Among the numerous drug stores in the district, there is none more popular in all of Roxbury than is the Franklin Pharmacy at No. 453 Blue Hill Avenue, Grove Hall, of which J. E. Lanouette is the proprietor. This store was established 22 years ago on its present site. It is neat and attractive in all of its appointments and arrangements and has a floor of marble tiling, hard wood fixtures. plate-glass showcases, and an elaborate soda water fountain. The establishment is stocked with a large and particularly well selected assortment of goods, including pure drugs, chemicals, proprietary remedies, rubber goods, sick room and hospital supplies, perfumes, toilet requisites, confectionery, stationery. cigars, cigarettes, salves, tonics, liniments, druggists’ novelties, etc. This large and varied stock is nicely arranged and makes an attractive display. Mr. Lanouette pays especial and the most careful attention to the compounding of the prescriptions of physicians which are brought to the store to be put up, seeing to it that nothing impure or otherwise deleterious ever finds its way into these important medicines for the sick.
Mr. Lanouette is a native of Vermont and was educated and reared in the Green Mountain state. He is a graduate pharmacist and is registered under the laws of Massachusetts. He has lived in Roxbury for a number of years and is well known and highly respected by all, both as a business man and as a private citizen.
Associated with Mr. Lanouette is his brother-in-law, A. B. Altree, a popular young man who was for several years in the drug business in Florida, prior to his coming to Boston.