Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-10
TEE LEADING SENSATION
What a Prominent Mer-
chant Stated in a
Business Office
Yesterday.
A Reporters Thorough Investi-
gation-What he Saw
and Heard.
4 Keen Counterfeit Detectives
Story Dignif8d Million
aires Endorsement.
oh, There's No Humbug
About this Matter
It's a Genuine
Thing"
FRESH CAUSE FOR THANKSGIVING

sort of annual religious investment. Ihey put
in good stock of gratitude, expecting it will
last through the year. Perhaps this is gen.
orally true OF many stirring business men.
who are driven at break-neck speed the year
round. They come to a sudden halt at
Thanksgiving time, and do great stroke of
business in the way of open-handed bsnsv-
olence and general well-wishing. 1t hap
pened thus with prominent and well-known
business man yesterday, who, dropping into
the Bulletin publication Office and calling up
one of the attaches of the establishment,
with whom he was well acquainted, said:
81 have called TO give you some important
information for your readers. | like to do a
good turn when l can, aud we've just had
great cause for Thanksgiving at our house,
and l want other folks to know about it. MY
wife, he went on to say, has been greatly
afflicted for some months with an affection Of
the knee joipt-very painful, and defying the
skill of the best surgeons in the city. By
some it was said to be drying up Of the
sinovial flaid-something very dangerous and
difficult to reach. As she found no relief
from the excruciating pain, she was induced
TO try this German Remedy that is creating
go much excitement just now, st. Jacobs Oil,
and, to our delight and amazement, it cured
her almost instantly. Whatever the effect is,
one thing is sure, it cured her; and l want
she endured to know about II. So put that
in your paper at my expense if you wish,
and just tell anybody who wishes to verify
the fact to cali at this Office. You are at
liberty to give them my name. I'm in dead
earnest about this thing. It's too good to keep
while other folks are all drawn up with
pain" Saying this he turned to leave; but on
being interrogated, he answered many ques-
tons evoked by this hearty testimonial (As
previously stated, the gentleman is promi-
nent merchant Of this city. where he has been
in business for many years. His name and
address can be had at the Bulletin offiee). The
evidence was so conclusive that a reporter at
once started out on a tour of further investi.
CATION. It is one of the highest prerogatives
of modern journalism to investigate matters
of public interest and gather facts that will
be of service to mankind. The poet never
uttered sublimer truth than when he paid
the following noble tribute to the modern
newspaper:
The mightiest of the mighty means,
On which the OF progress leans,
Mans noblest mission to advance,
His woes assuage, his veal enhance,
His rights enforce his wrongs redress
MIeHTlEsT OF MIeHrY is THE Press.
To gather Just such facts as will advance
mans highest good, assuage his wees, and
enhance his veal il the peculiar province Of
the omniscient and omnipresent reporter.
This time the reporter was TO make vigilant
and thorough investigation in regard to this
great German Remedy, of which so much is
being said. His quest might throw him into
the most polite circles; it was incumbent
upon him to look his very best. To this end
the services of the barber must first be
evoked. or course, none could excel the
popular tonsorial artist, Frank Koch, No.
$40 California street. While preparations
were going. on, the reporter picked up a
| morning paper, and. as If by sort of lucky
chance, his eye immediately fell on clipping
| from an Eastern journal of established re-
pute, bearing marvellous testimony to the
wonderful cures that were being effected by
| the remedy in question. ''Well," calculated
the reporter, as the barber began his prelimi-
nary work, 1T seems a little odd that you
can't pick up paper nowadays without
being RECALLED with these miraculous cures. 1
confess | can scarcely credit these state
ments"
"You can't?" shouted the barber, with q
show of genuine grit "you can't? Well,
you don't know what you're talking about,
that's all. just say that to my wife, and
you'd soon find yourself in hot water She
never tires of telling her friends and neigh
bors to rub their aching limbs with that oil.
She wouldn't be without it day on no con-
ditiou. She was o terrible sufferer from
rheumatism, and it cured her in no time
Just yeu go and talk with her about it. She'd
tell you more actual cures than you ever
heard of. We live at 500 Filbert street.
Just run in; 'twould do you good to see
what an excitement she is in on the subject
But you can't blame her. She got well her.
self; and so did many other sufferers we know
Of So don't go to writing down that medicine
It's the greatest thing yet. It's wonderful
remedy-uonde1JulF' and the enthusiastic
barber gave an additional cue to the glossy
| locks Of the receptive reporter. as he empha-
| sized the last word. There was no discount
| ing the sincerity of the testimony, and the
reporter sailed forth with freshened zeal. A
| few doors below, as he was passing the we'll
known job-printing house of Rosenthal &
Roesch, No. 53S California street, he stopped
| TO give an exchange of freddy greeting to
his old friends, who were just entering the
door. whats up now. old fellow o. said
one of the good-Datured typograpbs, with a
Quizz:cal smile; Some fresh mischief, I'll
be bound" mot bit of it, responded the
reporter. Pm wrestling with ST Jacobs
OIL this morning; Is new scent, You!see. It's
jolly work"
ITS jolly medicine, retorted the genial
| Rosehthal, with an sir of personal interest in
the matter. Its 4 No. l, and no mistake
| Do you know anything about it ?" On being
aS5uTENt tHdJ Tile fStlUilGI lau D1u no DerSOH9i
experience with The oil. MIR. Essential went
on to say We know all about that remedy.
Don't you remember that item 1 gays YOU,
one morning. in regard to one of our work.
men who got his hand so dreadfully hurt in
the machinery? Some enc brought him a
| bottle of St. Jacobs Oil. He used it a day
or two, ard before we knew it he was beck
again at his work. We were all perfectly
amazed at the suddenness of the cure. We
could scarcely credit our senses. But it was
a mighty fortunate thing for us, as well as
for himself, for we were almost pushed to
death with work, and didn't know how TO
spare him. He was one of our best
workmen. since that time mum.
Der of our men have used the rem
edy, and they all have wonderful tales to
tell in regard to its efficacy. If you know Of
anybody that is suffering with rheumatism or
bruises, you needn't fear recommending ST.
Jacobs Oil. just send them to me and FL
post them up. l want TO help folks cut
when l can. We al get our share OF pain,
after doing the best we can. anyway" The
reporter bowed III qualified assent to this sug-
gesiiou, aud proceeded to the st. Georges
Stables, on Bash street, near Kearny, re-
solved on good drive, as he further pursued
his investigations. MIR. J. W. Murphy, the
good-natured and accommodating proprietor,
extenoed genial salutatioD, and wanted to
know what he could do in thu way Of turn
out. The reporter could have his best Il
he wanted il. And "the best" at the st.
GEORGES always means the best that the city
affords. As the Harvesting was going on, the
reported told Mr.. Murphy the impDrt Of his
mission. 'sIm on an Oil expedition" was
the way he phrased it. Pm bsns on pur-
suing this ST. jacobs Oil to the very utmost
limit Sc. Jacohs Oil ?" interrogated Mr..
Murphy, why, my old fellow, I'm Just the
man TO post you OF that subject. l can tell
you more about that witched medicine in ten
minutes than any man in town. Why, we
just swear by that wonderful sort of mix.
ture in this establishment, don't we, Tim %
and he turned to one Of the hostlers st work
on fine-looking piece of horsefssb, just in
the rear of where the reporter stood. Tim
nodded smiling assent and pursued his work,
while Dir. Murphy went on to say: You
see that box standing there on my Office desk
Well, wouldn't be without it for its weight
in gold. It has cured many valuable ami.
NAL in these stables Our stock gets pretty
rough usage sometimes. hate any man that
will abuse a horse, he threw in parentheti-
call; he ought to be tied to whipping post
and get forty lashes. But Twas geing tosay, that
let horse come in with cut, sore or swelling.
and that oil will straighten him out in no time.
For sprains, gals, swelling of the joints,
stiffness, and l may say any other sort Of all
ment, that medicine is just wonderful. It