Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1847-08-19
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Oath before The Mayor IN 1914
State of New York:
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City and County of New York,
[Ls] G.. BENJAMIN SMITH, within named,
being duly sworn, deposes and says, that he is
citizen of the United States, and resides in the ci
ty of New York: and that he is the einal inven
tor Of Sugar Coated Pills." and that to his knowl
edge or belief Sugar Coated Pills had never been
manufactured or sold by any person before, and
that the statements contained in the within are
true G.. Benz. SMITH, NJ ID
Sworn before me, this 18th day of June, 1914.
JAMES HARPER,
Mayor of the City of New York.
The above was sent to Washington with our
specification and application for Patent. The
following is the reply
Patent Office
Received this 18th day Of June, 1884, from DIR.
G. Benjamin Smith, the fee of $780, paid on his APP
plication for Patent for Pill Coated with su-
gar IL l. ELLSWORFH,
Commissioner of Patents.
THE ABOVE CONFIRMED!!!
The following certificate is from the first Drug
gists and others in Newly York, which shows in
vented Sugar Coating in 1913, before which time
Sugar Coating was never heard of
G. BENJAMIN SMITH, NJ D
New York, June Goth, 1914
We the undersigned never saw or heard OF Su-
gar Coated Pills. until DR. Benjamin Smith man.
ufactured and exhibited them to US about year
since.
Rushton d Co ITO Broadway and 10 Astor House
Israel Randolph, NJ d sc Liberty street
Horace EUerett, SO Hudson street
John Castree, 81 Hudson street. And also to
Gen G w SANFORD, 10 Warren-street, N Y, and
Also, hundreds of agents
G Benjamin Smith. NJ D-Dear sir: | believe
you were the first by about year, 10 make and
introduce Sugar Coated Pills. and are following
your business with honorable and praiseworty ex-
ertions Yours A SHERMAN, NJ d
LOG, Nassau street, N Y
Important Fact--We, the undersigned, @hole-
sale Druggists in Louisville, Kentucky, are salts
fed from the information we can obtain, that DR..
G. Benjamin Smith is the original inventor of the
Sugar Coated Pills. We are prepared to supply
dealers at the New York price
Robinson, Peter d Carey, 492 Main street
J S Morris q Co 46i do
Rupert d Lfndenberger, 5ll do
George Lappiag d Co 79 Fourth street
Bull d Alden, 81 do
The danger Of being deceived is now appare nf;
as DR.. Smiths Pills have become very popular
throughout the country, imitators have sought to
palm off worthless stuff with coating Of sugar
to cover up most dangerous compound
DIR. Crumbecker, of Wheeling, Va, says that a
person in that place came near losing his life from
the effects of the counterfeit Sugar Coated Pills
Also, gentleman in Louisville, Ky, was seized
with violent vomiting after their use.
Get the genuine or get none, and see that Il
BENJAMIN Smith is written with q pen ON the bot
tom of each box
DR. CHILTON'S EVIDENCE.
Some of DIR Smiths opponents have circulated
the report that the astonishing cures these pills
have made, are attributable to mercury but the
first Chemist in New York, after minute chem
ical examination, gives the following
| have analysed box OF Doctor Smiths Sugar
Coated Indian Vegetable Pills, and find that they
do not contain mercury in any form
James r Chiffon, N D, Chemist
New York, July 30, 1915
State of New York, T..
City and County of New York,
Personally appeared before me DR. G Benjamin
Smith, and made oath that the statement of Doct
Chiffon above is true and that these Pills do not
contain any injurious substance but they en-
tirely composed of vegetable properties; and fur
ther, that he is the inventor of Sugar Cqated
Pills G BENJAMIN SMIEass
Sworn be fore me this 18th day of Aug. ID 1S45
w + HAVEMEYER, Mayor
(From Messrs. Post & Willis of Rochester, NJ W
Your Improved Indian Vegetable Sugar Coated
Pills are very popular here particularly among the
higher classes. Clergymen and others have used
them, and think them decidedly preferable TO any
other pills. We sell more of yours than all others
put together. Yourstruly Post d WaEs
Principal Office 179Treenwich ST., large brick
block, n Y. Price 25 cents a box
Agents in Monroe Co.
Theodore .Schoch, Stroudsburg.
Brodhead q Brothers. Duotsburg.
Jno. Marsh, Fennersville.
Daniel Brown, Chesnuthill
u And sold throughout the United States and
Canada. NAV 90. Is47
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