Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1859-02-05
Arctic VS.. Mnstan o.

4 N invidious and impudent card, recently pub
IN lishsd BY the proprietors of the Mustang,
seems to call for some notice at our hands, and al
though we dislike newspaper CONTROVERSIES. and
stance depart from our usual custom. The card al
Iuded to is aimed at BRACES ARCTIC LINZ
MENT, and very evidently has a pecuniary origin,
these dsinterested gentlemen dlsklng to see their
Tic L1NiMENT. The card is too desutory for us
to follow seraatin, but states that DR.. Bragg had
published a card announcing that he had no fur
Their connection with the Mustang, and would not
hold himself responsible for its Geteriorated quality
or for the injuries resulting from the use of the
spurious article with which the market was glutt-
ed. DR.. Bragg's son is the only person OF that
name having any interest in the Arctic Liniment.
BRACES ARCTIC LINIMFNT is now and has al
WAYS been owned by Oliver T. Bragg and M. Bur-
roWes. doing business under the style of Bragg
Burrowes, and the only connection DR.. Bragg ever
had with it was in the simple fact that he invented
Since inventing the Mustang DR.. Bragg has bad
MANY wears of experience, and it is but reasona-
BILE to presume that IN bis mature m anhOod he
could produce a better remedy than in his compar-
ativeiy inexperienced youth; me instantaneous
success of Bragg's Arctic Linimert wherever it
was introduced, bears conclusive testimony that
such was the fact Before the Arctic Liniment had
been introduced six months, it had superceoed all
others liniments. including the Mustang. In the
meantime spurious article of the Mustang made
its appearance in the market, pupt u externally
exactly as the genuine had been by DR.. Bragg,
but as unlike it in quality as possible DR.. Bragg
was constantly annoyed by letters from various
persons who hrd used this deterorated and iniu-
rious article of Mustang complaining of its bad ef-
fects, under the mistaken impression that he was
still its proprietor. IT DR.. Bragg considered it to
be his duty to set the matter before the public in
card announcing that he had fur Their connection
with it, that was his affair, with which we have
nothing to do. The vaunt of the Mustang proprie-
tors that they are well known to the business COM
status. The trouble is, they are too we'll known.
Their motive in the card alluded to is transparent
they dislike seeing their eheapy made preparation
| superseded by Braggs Arctic Liniment, an arti-
Gle greatly its superior but which they affect to
consider failure Notwithstanding this affectation,
they offered large sum for its suppression, and
| failing in that are now expanding much money for
newspaper cards, in the vain attempt to persuade
the public that the Arctic Liniment is failure.-
The public are not so easily gued these gentle
men suppose and can redily comprehend that if il
4 were such failure as these interruptions persons
pretend they would be the last to disturb it's quiet
oblivion. The fact is readily percertibe that they
alarmed for the prosperity OF their article
and well they may be, for they know that for an
article to attain the substantial celebrity o.
I BRACES ARCTIC IMMINENT, it must possess
an intrinsic value capable of positive demenstra
that people may be deferred from trying it, wei
assured tina. it they once tested its merits, they
could never agasn be Induced to use the Mustang
| In conclusion, we claim that the Arctic Linimeni
is the best article ever offered to the public, ant
thatit will bear triumphantly every test whic
may be applied to it.
i BRAGG & BURRONES,