The man who invented Coca-Cola was not
a native Atlantan, but on the day of his funeral every drugstore in town
testimonially shut up shop. He was John Styth Pemberton, born in 1831 in
Knoxville, Georgia, eighty miles away. Sometimes known as Doctor, Pemberton was
a pharmacist who, during the Civil War, led a cavalry troop under General Joe
Wheeler. He settled in Atlanta in 1869, and soon began brewing such patent
medicines as Triplex Liver Pills and Globe of Flower Cough Syrup. In 1885, he
registered a trade- mark for something called French Wine Coca Ideal Nerve and
Tonic Stimulant; a few months later be formed the Pemberton Chemical Company and
recruited the services of a bookkeeper named Frank M. Robinson, who not only had
a good head for figures but, attached to it, so exceptional a nose that he could
audit the composition of A. He was highly respected by Atlantans. B. He ran a drug store that also sells wine. C. He had been a doctor until the Civil War. D. He made a lot of money with his pharmacy. [单项选择]
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