Smith Bros., the iconic Chicago-based cough drop brand that relaunched under new owners two years ago, has ceased production and is dissolving its assets after a failed comeback bid. The ambitious ...

Yes, in Poughkeepsie, Smith Brothers Cough Drops was more than big business. It was a community affair — and an integral element of the city's identity in 1873. Alongside operating their father ...

For more than a century, the bearded visages of the Smith Brothers have stared silently from the front of their cough drop boxes, promising candylike flavor and some vague medicinal relief.

Smith Bros. has permanently lost its voice. The maker of what once was the most popular brand of cough drops in the country rolled its last lozenge off the assembly line two weeks ago and is ...

CHICAGO — Television viewers will see something during December that hasn't been on the air since I Love Lucy was in its first run — a new commercial for Smith Bros. cough drops. Revived last ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- From the mid-1800s until the1970s, the biggest selling cough drops in America were Smith Brothers cough drops. But then the brand went kaput. Now, however, the brothers are back.

The Smith Brothers cough drop brand has found new life as a reimagined product. Now labeled as a "throat drop," the Smith Brothers brand will appear this fall on store shelves in Walgreens ...

Everyone knows Smith Brothers Cough Drops and the bearded brothers “Trade” and “Mark.” And most Hudson River Valley dwellers know the Poughkeepsie restaurant in which the first batch of ...