Source: The Richmond Dispatch-March 21, 1857

Location: Richmond, Virginia

 

Page: 2

RICHMOND SODA WATER ESTABLISHMENT.--It is a fixed fact, that the only genuine article of bottled Soda Water, Porter and Ale made in this city, is put up by M. McCORMACK, who flatters himself that he is able to complete with any manufacturer either North or South, having been engaged for the last ten years, preceding '56, the greater part of which year he spent in visiting the larger cities of the North, together with those of England and Ireland, examining their different breweries and bottling establishments with a view to still greater improvements in the manufacture of the said articles, already so justly celebrated.
  The subscriber is now bottling Porter, Ale, Cider, Soda Water, &c., at his old stand, where he hopes by strict attention to business to merit a continuance of the patronage heretofore so liberally bestowed on him in former years.  All orders from city or country customers promptly attended to.
  The subscriber would most respectfully request all his city customers to return all his bottles to his drivers and to no other persons, as he finds a great many of them missing; and he forewarns all purchasers of Soda Water, Porter, Ale and Cider not to receive any of his bottles except from his drivers.
                                                                 M. McCORMACK.
                                                                      No. 308 Broad street.