Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-09
THE CuLTfcukA kEMEDr,s.
Some Facts Regarding Them-Who Makes
Them and What j. Thought of Them by
the Drug Trade-Interview OF q Times
Reporter with Peter Van Schaack. Eso.

Some Facts Regarding Them-Who Makes
Them and What j. Thought of Them by
the Drug Tradc-Interview OF q Times
Reporter with Peter Van Setback, ESQ.
From the Chicago Times.
10 enable the Times to furnish its readers
with some reliable information REGARDING
the Cuticura remedies, which are now al.
tracing SO much public attention, a report.
er called yesterday upon Mar. Peter Van
Setback, OF Van Setback Stevenson & Co
wholesale and retail druggists corner Lake
and Dearborn streets, when the followino
facts We're elected:
R.-WIl you oblige the readers of the
Times by answering few questions regard.
ing the Cuticura remedies:
Mr.. Van S.--Certalnly FIRE away.
R.vDo they sell welis
Mr.. Van She sale of the Cuticur;
Cutlcura Resolventsand Cuticura Soap have
been unprecedented
r." hat reasons do you give for SO
large sale?
Mr. Van ST. give four reasons First.
tney are original and revolutionary in their
composition and mode of treatment. Sec
ono' they undoubtedly possess great eura-
i've properties. Third, there are thousands
upon thousands OF sick and suffering who
nave trled and found wanting the usual rem
cues and modes of treatment, and who ar E
ready 10 welcome really great and success
full medicine. Fourth, the price of them is
within the reach of every invalid.
R.-Are your large sales of these medi-
c1nes through your agents
MIR. Van o.-No, they are legitimate mail
orders. We employ no trave.ers on the
road-are fundamentally opposed to that
way of selling goods-the retailer has to
stand such expenses, and such staple goods
as these require no one to force them OFF
R.-Do you class them as patent med
icines?
Mr.. Van 81 do not. They are propri-
etary only so far as their names are concern
ed, these being held as trademarks.
R.--Can you tell us something about this
firm?
Mr.. Van S.-Weeks & Potter are import
ers, wholesale druggists and chemists, and
for twenty-five years have been the fore
most house in the trade in New England.
R.-It is popularity supposed that adver-
| Using will sell most anything, regardless of
| merit. Is it true?
Mr. Van S-No. A remedy falsely claim
| ing to possess virtues of which it is in fact
destitute will surely fail. No reputable
| tirm-and druggists are the most compe-
| tent judges-would think of risking fame
and fortune on any medicine unless it had,
under the most trying circumstances, proved
| itself to possess extraordinary medicinal
value. The expense attending the introduce
| ton of such remedies is enormous. for
tune must be spent before any return can
be expected. II, after wide distribution.
they are found to possess the virtues claimed
for them, those VINO have been cured will
| recommend them one to another and thus
make them remunerative. When q man
backs his statements with his own money,
you may generally rely upon them. This
Weeks d Potter are dong.
R.-Have they ever before prepared medi-
cines for popular use
Mr. Van 81 believe not. They are,
like ourselves, agents for great many, but
We think these are the first that they pre-
pared themselves. It is but once in life
time that discovery is made of remedy
that such firm as Weeks q Potter are will
ing to stake reputation and fortune On.
| R.-Are their prospects fattering, OF
otherwise?
Mr.. Van S.-Yery fattering. AS sale
before, the remedies undoubtedly possess
great merit And, besides, they treat blood
and skin diseases according to new ano
thoroughly rational plan, that must take 8
suffer from chronic diseases of the blood
skin and scalp.
Real Hair Switches at A. D. DuNBAR's
| -e1--
| Soda and Mineral aters
Always on draught at Peter Kern's.