Years ago one of my first bottle digging friends Steve Anderson gifted me a few bottles including a Clarkes Kill Pain. Years of research failed to yield any information, but I did find a patent medicine dealing Clarke in Maine. I decided to give the research one final try before listing it on ebay, as the Narragansett Times had recently been digitized. I was shocked when I got a hit, and to my delight I found out the bottle was from Dorrville, RI! This was a name used for present-day Bradford, also formerly known as Niantic. Steve found many bottles diving in the river there, and I'm sure he would have been excited to see I solved the mystery!
A new construction site looked promising, but the summer heat was not exactly calling my name when it came to digging. I found a small shallow pit with a few bottles including an American Bottling Co. Union Station Providence, RI whiskey. Lo and behold, it was a variant!
A river walk yielded a few fun finds, but the big surprise came as I was leaving! A barely visible Acme Bottling Co. Providence, RI caught my eye. It was a new variant of an already rare soda.
I was pickup up a rare but listed soda bottle in Newport, and asked the seller if they had any others. I was delighted to also pick up a Moren & Sullivan Echo Bristol, RI soda! I've known about this bottle for years but it had eluded me, until now!
A friend found an Echo Eagle Bottling Co. Bristol, RI soda while walking a river recently. I was very surprised, as I was not aware that the Eagle Bottling Co. had ties to Echo. Apparently they bought the location from Moren & Sullivan and kept their original plant as well.
