The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-27
Sebiel as ssebnapps.

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OFFICE OF UrOlpHO WOLFE.
Sole Impo' ten gfM, clied1m 'ron,atic Schndpps,
No % rVer-stgeet.
NEW toRk November .. 1868.
10 the People Of the Noutl4f'rn Statest
WHEN THE Pull MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now 80 widely known WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM
sCaNaPPS, was introduced into tho world under
the endorsement Of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession twenty years ago.
proprietor was we'll aware that It could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations. He, therefore, endeavored to invest II
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters, and to rendor all attempts pirate diff
Quit and dangerous. It was submitted to distin.
guished chemists for analysis, ana pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured Its puri-
ty and properties having been thus asoertained
pies of the article forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners in
the United States, for purposes of experiment. A
circular, requesting tia! os tho preparation .zi
report of the result accompanied each specimen.
-Four thousand of the most eminent medical mon in
the Union promptly responded. Their opipions of
the article were unanimously favorable. Such
preparation they said, had long been wanted by
the profession. as reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors of commerce. all of which
more or less adulterated. and therefore unit for
medical purposes The peculiar excellence and
strength Of the OF of juniper. which formed one of
the principal ingredients Of the Schnapps together
with an unalloyed character OF the alcoholic ele-
nent, give 1t. in the estimation Of the faculty, q
marked superiority over every other dfusive stimu-
liant a. diuretic. tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank were published in con-
densed form. and enclosed with each bottle of the
schnapps. as one Of the guarantees Of its genuine.
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patent was obtained fox the article the
label was copyrighted, fac snfe Of the proprieors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover, his name and that Of the preparation
bossed on the bottles and the corks sealed with
his private seal. No article had ever been sold in
this country under the name Of Schnapps prior to
the introduction of wolfes schtedam Aromatic
Schnapps. in 1851; and the label was deposited az
his trade mark IN the United States District Court
for the Southern District Of New York during that
year.
1t might be supposed by persons unacquainted
with the daring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vend
Ing deleterious trash under their nae that the pro-
tections carefully thrown around these schnapps
would have precluded the introductions and sale Of
counterfeits They seem, however only to have
stimulated the rapacity Of tmpostors. The trade
mark of ths proprietor has been stolen the ndorse
ment which his Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars N~let, alli worse than all
dtshonorable retailer disppsing Of the genuine
contents Of his bo.' fIlsd them up with
common eins the st le!eterious Of all liquors. aud
thus made his mai andss,rind cover for poison.
The public, the med&al protes sion and the sick
for whom the Scledam Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scrtbed as remedy, af equally interested with the
proprietor in thee 'cl9n ana suppression of these
netarious practices, 1hS genuine article manuac-
tured at the establishment OF the undersigned in
chiedam, olland is di tllod from q barley of the
finest quality, and favo va WITH All essential extract
Of the berry Of the ItalgA iunip4 of uncaualed pu
rity. BY process III own iii The preparation of
any other liquor, it is need from very acrimonious
and corrosive element
Complaints have ocs .eceivsd from the leading
physicians and fainiiiea the southern States of
the sale of cheap imitataoas .: hs schiedam Arc
mAha sohnapla Iin shose markets: aud travellers.
Naf arc ~ az esbeUf usint 1t rs antidote t.. :lc
n'ie'et inbnepsessaf sss anwhoesomo rivec es-
saps ss up in Sobie5Jlp hettles, is
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