Dr Pepper artifact may reveal soft drink’s origin

Tue, May 5, 2009

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dr-pepper-logoPoking through antiques stores while traveling through the Texas Panhandle, Bill Waters stumbled across a tattered old ledger book filled with formulas.

He bought it for $200, suspecting he he could resell it for five times that. Turns out, his inkling about the book’s value was more spot on than he knew.

© 2009 AP (full story)

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