How did a ‘health drink’ from the early 1800s spawn so many names and variations? An expert in American dialects explains.

Would you consider soda a medicinal beverage? Selling drinks purported to have health benefits has been around far longer than you might imagine.

The word you use generally boils down to where you’re from: Midwesterners enjoy a good pop, while soda is tops in the North ...

Created in the 1880s by Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton, Pemberton’s French Wine Coca was a cocaine-infused libation and the Coca-Cola Company's forgotten predecessor.

Coca-Cola was invented on May 8, 1886, in Atlanta at Georgia’s Jacob Pharmacy, where Dr. Pemberton prepared a syrup for people to drink. When he introduced it, people enjoyed it so much that the ...

In 1886, Dr. John Pemberton had seen his Coca-Cola drink sold in the Jacob’s Pharmacy in downtown Atlanta as a tasty beverage with some additional health and mental benefits when consumed in ...

John William Pemberton, 84, of Avon, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, September 17th, 2024, at home with his loving wife by his side. He was born March 31st, 1940, in Indianapolis, IN to his ...