‘Tique of the Week is an Austin-wide search for unique and interesting antiques. With dozens of antique shops around Austin, one-of-a-kind items from the past are not in short supply. Each week we’ll find a new favorite item and feature it as our “‘Tique of the Week.” Sometimes antique stores make people a little bitter. Bitter that they were not brought up in a time where people danced more, wore white gloves, went to Soda Fountains and used things like calling cards. Eventually, the stupidity is realized and the reality sets in –  the reality that white gloves are useless and hard to grip things with and calling cards were most often used to signify social status rather than social nicety. There are some antiques, however, that make people grateful. Grateful they did not live in a time of Magnus, Mabee, and Reynard: Essential Oils Drugs and Chemicals. Famous South Congress destination, Uncommon Objetcts houses the antique bottle that sparked the pertinence of chemical question. The antique bottle of Magnus, Mabee, and Reynard: Essential Oils Drugs and Chemicals is decorated in a hilariously pleasant garden scene in contrast to its gory marketing lingo. Chemical needs? Those could be cleaning products  or the ridiculous amounts of cocaine and booze that tended to be in high percentages in pharmaceuticals of yore. Could it be one of the less than affective morning sickness treatments that actually killed the fetus instead of the nausea? It must have been so comforting to know that your neighborhood drug store had an abundant supply of LSD in case any of your family members suffered from an anxiety attack. Interestingly, another antique found next to the bottle at Uncommon Objects was a card that stated “POISON: NITRIC ACID: Antidote: Give no emetics…. Use Milk ….Or Use Olive Oil. STAR DRUG STORE.” What Star Drug Store was doing selling Pure Nitric Acid to the general public or giving out cards that said how to deal with the ingestion of it is anyone’s guess. However, we can all agree how lucky it is that Star Drug Store said what Magnus, Mabee, and Reynard did not: if while you were cleaning your kitchen, so that your white gloves would not be dirty when your friends came a calling, and little Johnny drinks the Nitric Acid left on the floor, Olive Oil should do the trick in “de-poisoning” the little trooper.