The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-14
SfbieSau1 Sebuapps.
ORFICE OF UDOLpHO WOLFE.
Sole impo, ter qfthe ScAiedans Aromatic Schnnnn,
No 22 Benver.strcet,
NEW York, November y la8a

So'e A"Po' '~ O ne sca,edGm aromatic Schnapps,
No 30 BeMver.street,
NEW YeRK, November 3. 1868. !
40 the People OF the Southern States,
WHEN IHE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE.
now 30 widely known as WOLFE'S SCHIED AM
SCHNAPPS, was introduced into the world undcr
the endorsement OF four thousand leading members
OF the medical profession some twenty years ago it's
proprietor was well aware that 1t 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.
letters, aadto render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous. It was submitted to distin.
guished chemists for unalysis and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured Its puri.
y and properties having been thus ascertained sam
pies OF the article forwarded to ten thousand
physicians Including all the leading practitioners in
tue United States, for purposes OF experiment. A
CIRCULAR requesting trial of the preparation and
report OF ti4 result, accompanied each specimen
Four thousand of the most eminent medical men in
the Union promptly responded. Their OPINIONS of
the article we're unanimously favorable Such n
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession, as reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors OF commerce, all of which were
moro or less adulterated and therefore unfit for
mealcal purposes. The peculiar excellence and
streneth OF the OF Of juniper which formed one of
>Ao pAAnetPeyAhSIeuleuS Ol the SChnappS, together
with an unalloyed character of the alcoholic ele.
ment, give 1t. in the estimation of the faculty.
marked superiority every other diffusiye stimu
liant as diureic, tonic and restorative
These satisfactory credentials from professiona,
men OF the h'Rhest rank were published in con-
densed FORM and enclosed with each bottle of the
schnapps. asone of the guarantees of It's genuine
ness Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patent was obtained for the article. the
label was copyrighted, fac snse of the prop1ielor's
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover his name and that Of preparation were en-
bossed on the botles and the corks were sealed with
his private seal. No article had ever been sold in
this country under the name Of schnapps prior to
the 1ntroducton of Wolfes schiedam Aromatic
schnapps, In 1851; and the label was deposited ma
MS trade mark, in the United States District Court
for the Southern District of New York durino that
year.
1t might be supposed by persons unacouain,ed
with the during character of the pirates who prev
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by yend
ing deleerohs trash under their name that the rro
tecuons SO carefully thrown around these schnapps
would have feoluded the introductions and sale OF
counterfeits. They seem, however, only to have
simulated tfe rapacity Of impostors. The trade
mark OF tn, proprietor has been stolen; the indorse
ment which bis Schiedam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
Claimed bwasEaendacious humbugs; his labels and
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