The liniment became extremely successful. Sloan sold his business over 100 years ago for $1 million to the company that made Listerine, W.R. Warner & Co., which later became Warner-Lambert.

William L. Dehey is best known to local persons who are still short of the Sloan’s liniment barrier — age 35 — as the assistant director of Pittsfield Vocational School. You have to be aging ever so ...