A fire that led to the death of an 82-year-old Chehalis woman in December was likely sparked when flammable liniment lotion self-heated and spontaneously combusted, a fire investigator says. Rosemarie ...

A plain-vanilla company? Well, in a way. “We make multiple vanillas—double strength, pure, organic,” says Mark Jacobs, who runs Winona-based J. R. Watkins, Inc., for his father, famed Minneapolis ...

With over 100 years in the spice business, it's about time J.R. Watkins Co. made a splash on the nation's grocery shelves. The Winona-based consumer products company, long known for direct sales, has ...

The pledge wasn't chiseled in stone, but, almost as good, it was cast in glass. In 1868, 28-year-old Joseph Ray Watkins concocted a mixture of camphor, spruce oil, extract of capsicum and other ...

1868: J.R. Watkins Medical Co. founded in Plainview, Minn., with launch of first product, Original Liniment. 1869: Introduction of Trial Mark bottle - America's first money-back guarantee. 1888: First ...