Posted in: Friday Favorites Friday Favorite: Healin’ Hurty

John N. Hurty (1852-1925) Purdue University photo. (C)lean and Mean… John Hurty began his career in Indianapolis at a time when cows and pigs roamed the city streets at will.......

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Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected: The Bloody Battle of the Catsup Bottle

...the ketchup.” In 1909, Dr. John N. Hurty wrote an editorial in The Indianapolis Star warning Hoosiers against the use of catsup, preservative-free or otherwise. Hurty blamed the astringent spices......

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Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected: Whiskey – it’s good for what ails you

...(wink, wink). An 1892 bottle of sour mash whiskey distributed by the Kiefer-Stewart Company displays the results of a chemical analysis performed by J.N. Hurty, a pharmacist/M.D. who served as......

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Posted in: Friday Favorites Friday Favorite: The Dubious Drs. Bye

...the elder Bye was. The secretary of the Indiana State Board of Health, Dr. J. N. Hurty, pronounced that he was unable to find any information concerning the numerous medical......

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Posted in: Friday Favorites Friday Favorite: Easter Leggacy 1877

...another 20 years after our egg dye recipe was published, for one Indianapolis pharmacist, James Hurty, to change all of that for Indiana — and indeed for the entire country.......

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: Better Babies Building and Hook’s Drug Store Museum, Indiana State Fairgrounds

...Biography of Dr. J. N. Hurty and The History of the Indiana State Board of Health to 1925” by Thurman B. Rice, M. D. The contest was such as hit......

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Ads: Measure of Success

...pioneers are still well known in Indianapolis today: Col. Eli Lilly, John N. Hurty, John Hook, and Julius Haag. The professionalization of drug dispensing in our state is due in......

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