Thursday, June 25, 2009
Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic
Who knew that druggist Edwin Grove concocted Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic in 1878 and used his wealth to build the state’s first privately endowed public high school in Paris (pop. 9,763), referred to as “the school that came out of a bottle.” Source: Tennessee Trivia & Tidbits, part of AmericanProfile.
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