The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-02
From the Chicago Times.

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From the Chicago Times.
To enable the TINES to furnish it's read
ers with some reliable information regard
ing the Cuticura remedies, which are now
attracting so must public attention, a re-
porter called yesterday upon Mr.. Peter
Van Setback, Of Van Setback, Stevenson
q Co, wholesale and retrail druggists, cor
ner Lake and Dearborn Streets, when the
following facts were elicited;-
R.-Will you oblige the readers of the
ZINES by answering a few questions re
gardlug the Cuticura remedies?
Mr.. Van S.-Certainly; FIRE away.
R.-Do they sell well?
Mr.. Van S.-The sale of the Cuticura
Cuhcura Resolvent, and Cuticura Soar
have been unprecedented.
R.-What reasons do you give for Sc
| large a sale?
Mr.. Van 81 give four reasons. FRS
they are original and revolutionary in
| their composition and mode of treatment
Second, they undoubtedly possess grea,
curative properties. Third, there ar,
thousands upon thousands of sick and
suffering who have tried and found want
ing the usual remedies and modes of trea,
ment, and who are ready to welcome
a really great and successful medicine.
Fourth, the price of them is within thu
means of every invalid.
R.-Are your large sales OF these med
icines through your agents?
Mr.. Van S.-No; they are Legitimate
mail orders. We employ no travellers on
the road-are fundamentally opposed to
that way of selling goods-the retailer hal
| ~ Ia
goods as these require no one to force then
off.
R.-Do you class them as patent med
icines?
Mr., Van 81 do not. They are pro
prietary, so far as their names are con
cerned, these being held as trademarks
but their composition, as you will learI
from this circular, may be obtained BY
any regular physician who desires to ust
them in his practice simply by applying
to Weeks & Potter.
R.-Can you tell US something abou
this firm?
Mr.. Van S,-Weeks & Potter are i'm
porters, wholesale druggists and chemists
and for twenty-five years have been tn,
foremost house in the trade in New Eng
land.
| R.-It is popularity supposed that ad
vertisng will sell most anything, regard
less of merit. Is it true?
| Mr.. Van $40. A remedy falsel,
claiming to possess virtues of which it i
fact destitute, will surely fail. No reput
able 6rm-and the druggists are the mos
competent judges-would think of riSkinl
fame and fortune on any medicine unles
/ IK ha1 ho tor
ces, proved itself to possess extraordinar.
medicinal value. The expense attending
the introduction Of such remedies is eDor
nous A fortune must be spent bei0r,
any return can be expected. If, after
wise distribution, they are found to pos
sess the virtues claimed for them, thos
who have been cured will recommend then
TO another, and thus make them remun
erative. When a man backs his state
ments with his own money, you may gen
orally rely upon them. This Weeks
Potter are doing,
R.-Have they ever before prepare,
remedies for popular use?
Mr., Van s l believe not They ar
like ourselves, agents Tor IA great many
but we think these are the first that the
prepare themselves. 1t is but once in
lifetime that a discovery is made of
remedy that such firm as Weeks L POI
G ter are willing to stake reputation and for
tune on
R.-Are their prospects fattering, @
lotherWi<e?
Mr.. Van S.-Very hstiering, As sal
= before. the remedies undoubtedly posses
T great merit And besides, they tres
\ blood aud skin diseases according 10 ne
thoroughly ra'inpaI rian, that must tak@
firm hut4 % tiu 01ui teuce al tn''"e wi:
sutf from Chrouic diseases of the bloc
4 skin, and scalp.