The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-02-18
Office of Udolpho Wolfe,
SOLE IMPORTER OF TIE
Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps,
% BEAVER STREET, NEW YORK,
NOVEMBER 8, 1868.
To the People of the Southern States:

10 We IeOpte " He OO0titeiH iOeotee
When the pure medicinal restorative, now SO
widely known rs Wolfes Schiedam Schnapps, was
introduced into the world under the endorsement OF
four thousand leading members of The medical
profession some 20 years ago, its proprietor was
well aware that it could not wholly escape the
penalty attached 10 all new and useful prepara-
tons. He, therefore, endcavored to invest it with
strongest possible safeguard against counterfeters
and to render all attempts to pirate 1t difficult and
dangerous. 1t was submitted to distinguished
chemists for analysis, and pronounced by them the
purest spirit ever manufactured Its purity and
properties having been thus asecrtsined, samples
of the article were forwarded to ten thousand ply
sicians, including oil the leading practitioners in
the United States, for purposes of experiment. A
circular, requesting trial of the preparation and
report of the result, accoHaBan MED each specimen
Four thousand Of the most eminent medical men
in the, Union promptly responded. Their opin-
ion. of the article were unanimously favorable.
Such preparation they said, had long been wanted
by the profession, rs ne reliance could be placed
on the ordinary liquors Of commerce, oil Of which
were more or less aduterated, and therefore unfit
for medical purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength Of the oil of Juniper, which formed one
of the principal ingredients Of the Schnapps, to-
cether with an unalloyed character of the alcohol
ic element give it, in the estimation of the faculty.
a marked superiority over every other difusive
stimuiant as a diuretic, tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank were published in con-
dcnsed form, and enclosed with each bottle Of the
Schnapps, as one of the guarantees OF les genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted q patent was obtained for the article,
the label was copyrighted, fac sinlle OF the pro-
prietor's autograph signature was attached TO each
label and cover his name and that of the pi epara-
tion were embossed on the bottles, and the corks
were sealed with his private seal. No article bad
ever been sold in this country under the name Of
Sclnapps prior TO. the Introduction of Wolfc's
Schiedssa Aromatic Schnapps i'll 1851; and the
label was deposited, his trade mark, in the Uni
ted States District Court for the Southern District
of New York that year.
1t might be supposed by persons unacquainted
with tie daring character Of the pirates who prey
upon tho reputation Of honorable merchants by
vending deleierious trash under their name that
the protection so carefully thrown around these
Schnapps would have prealuded the introduction
and sale of counterfcits They seem, however, TO
have only stimulated the rapacity of imposters>
The trade mark of the proprietor has been stolen;
the Endorsement which his Schcdam Aromatic
Schnapps alone received froIa the medical profess
sion has been claimed by mendncious humbugs ;
his labels and bottles have been initiated, his ad
yertsements nrnphrascd his circulars copied, and
worse than ALL dishonorable retailers after dispo
sing of the genuine contents Of his bottles bave
filled them up with common gin, the ihost delete
rious of all liquors, ard thus made his name and
brand cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the SchedaIn Aromatic Schnapps is
prescribed as remedy. nre equally interested