One stop shopping?

[wilderness]

from the July 11, 1929 Trotter & Pacer.

He Should Have Asked for a Sandwich

"I want to get a bottle of Absorbine."
"All right, now what else?"
"Oh, yes, and a pair of bell rubber boots."
"Sorry, sir, but we haven't them."
"Well, this is a fine drug store."

[looking in]

from the July 11, 1929 Trotter & Pacer.

He Should Have Asked for a Sandwich

"I want to get a bottle of Absorbine."
"All right, now what else?"
"Oh, yes, and a pair of bell rubber boots."
"Sorry, sir, but we haven't them."
"Well, this is a fine drug store."

I know up until just a few years ago my hometown corner drug store still carried the original Absorbine.

[wilderness]

looking,
              I guess you missed the VERY DRY 1929 writers humor?

The joke was in the request for bell boots