Harring & Teele were located at Four Corners in the rounded building.
The building at 345 Washington Street (1 Harvard) still exists.
The Boston Directory for 1916 has an entry for Harring & Teele, Carl G. Harring and G. Theodore Teele, druggists at 1 Harvard St., Dor. and 516 River St., Mat.
Harring & Teele
The Dorchester Beacon, October 26, 1907
Harring & Teele
Reliable and popular pharmacists, Washington and Harvard Streets, Dorchester
One of the most widely known and popular drug firms in this region is that of Harring & Teele, proprietors of two high-class apothecary stores, one at Washington and Harvard stress and the second in Mattapan Square, Mattapan. The firm is composed of C. (Carl) G. A. Harring and G. (George) T. Teele and was organized seven years ago at which time it took possession of the Washington Street store, which had been established 13 years previously and was then owned by F. H. Talcott. In 1905, the firm opened its Mattapan branch. Both stores are handsome and well appointed, being fitted in rich, solid mahogany, with beveled glass showcases and counters, elaborate National cigar stands and ornate “Paragon” soda water fountains of the latest designs. Both establishments are generously stocked with a choice assortment of goods, including pure drugs, chemicals, proprietary medicines of recognized merit, rubber goods, sick room and hospital supplies, perfumes, salves, plasters, physicians’ and surgeons’ supplies, confectionery, tonics, liniments, toilet requisites, stationery, cigars, cigarettes, etc., in almost endless variety. This firm makes a notable specialty of the compounding of the prescriptions of physicians and has an enviable reputation both among the people at large among the members of the medical profession, for skill and accuracy in the performance of this delicate and important work. No stale or impure drugs or other ingredients are ever permitted to enter the composition of these mixtures for the sick, and no substitution of any sort, for the sake of economy or for any other reason, is tolerated. The prescriptions are filled accurately and just as they are written by the doctor and have the full effect upon the patient which the prescribing physician intended. Conscienceless druggists are prone to put impure drugs into their prescriptions and to substitute some less expensive ingredient than the one ordered into their mixtures, thus making the medicines weaker and less effective, or of no effect at all, and thus nullifying the efforts of the medical practitioner in his effort for the recovery of his patient, but no such baseness ever undertaken here. The public is well aware of the responsibility of this concern and of its absolute reliability in this respect and acts accordingly by taking to its stores the prescriptions given by its doctors. The firm gives employment to three persons in each store.
Both Mr. Harring and Mr. Teele are graduates from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, St. Botolph Street. Boston. Mr. Harring is a member of the Masonic order and Mr. Teele belongs to the Masons and the Odd Fellows. Both members of the firm are highly respected in the community, not only as businessmen but as exemplary private citizens, and are popular in all circles in which they move.