A large, round, dark green glass bottle with no cap, lid or stopper. One side of the bottle reads : FIRST NATIONAL STORES - REGISTERED - SOMERVILLE, MASS. The other side reads : FIRST NATIONAL STORES - CONTENTS 1 PT. - 12 FLUID 0ZS. tHE BOTTOM OF THE BOTTLE READS : 3 -5- 3 with a symbol. beneath that it reads : G - 7332. There were First National Stores located at 4 Hampshire Street and 43 Broadway in Methuen. In Lawrence, First National Stores were located at : 103 Ames, 64 Berkeley, 377 Broadway, 59 Center, 511 Hampshire, 470A Haverhill, 189 Jackson, 145 Lawrence, 247 and 262 Prospect, 162 S. Broadway, 174, 235, and 378 S. Union Streets. It is unknown if this bottle is from Lawrence or what the bottle contained. The donor is David Burke of Lawrence, MA.
used: Container for First National Stores products
publication notes: Polk's Lawrence City Directory - 1940
Lothrop's Methuen, Mass Directory -1930
Date (coverage)
1920 - 1960