Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1859-01-08
Arctic VS.. Mustang.

A invidious and impudent card, recently pub
IA lish9d by the proprietors OF the Mustang,
seems to call for notice at our hands, and al
though we dislike newspaper controversies, and
have always avoidei them, we shall in this in
stance depart from our usual custom. The card al
luded to is aimed at BRACES ARCTIC LINZ
MENT and very evidently has pecuniary origin,
these dsinterested gentlemen dsliking to see their
article supplanted SO rapidly by BRACES ARC
TIC EMINENT. The card is too desultory for
to follow seriatim, but states that DR.. Bragg had
published q card announcing that he had no fur
ther connection with the Mustang, and would not
hold himself responsible for its deteriorated 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 Imminent
ways been owned by Oliver T. Bragg and NJ. Bur-
rowes, doing business under the style of Bragg &
Burrowes, and the only connection DR.. Bragg ever
had with it in the simple fact that he invented
it.
Since inventing the Mustang DR.. Bragg has had
MANY wears of experience, and it is but reasona-
BILE to presume that in his mature manhood be
could produce better remedy than in his compar-
atively inexperienced youth. The 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been introduced six months, it had superseded all
others liniments. including the Mustang. In the
meant 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 deteriorated and inju-
rious article of Mustang complaining of its bad eff
fects, under the mistaken impression that he was
still its proprietor. If Dr. Bragg considered it to
be his duty to set The matter before the public in
card announcing thathe had no further 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
,. munity is most amusing to those who know their
status. The trouble is, they are too well known.
Their motive in the card alluded to is transparent
they dislike seeing their cheaply made preparation
Superseded by Bragg's Arctic Liniment, an arti-
Gle greatly its superior. but which they affect to
consider failure Notwithstanding this affactation,
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 Eminent is failure
The public are not SO easily gulled these gentle
men suppose, and can redily comprehend that if it
were such failure as these INSCRIPTIONS persons
PRETEND they would be the last to disturb its quiet
oblivion. The fact is readily per certible that they
and well they may be, for they know that for an
article to attain the substantial celebrity of
BRACES ARCTIC EMINENT, it must possess
an intrinsic value capable of positive demonstra-
ton, and hence their only hope is in so abusing it
that people may be deferred from trying it, well
assured that it they tested its merits, they
could never agasn be induced to use the Mustang.
In conclusion, we claim that the Arctic Liniment
is the best article offered to the public, and
that it will bear triumphantly ever y test which
NAV be applied to it.