Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-04-05
How Dealers" Obtain Patent Med
oines 50 as to Undersell their
Neighbors.

sir. NJ. n. Kline gives in detail the method pur.
sued by two men in Philadelphia to obtain patent
medicines for the purpose Of underselline regular
dealers. These persons, To,ten Fetter by name,
write 10 the manufacturer, stating that number of
his goods unstable by reason of damaged wrap.
pers, and request that supply of wrappers, labels.
ETC. be sent them TO use in wrapping and render.
ing The zoos preseuiable.
should the unsuspecting Manufacturer send the
labels. old bottles, probably bought from INK shop
keepers, are ei with preparation made TO resenl-
Bile the genuine article, and the labels and wrappers
are placed n ereon. should. however. the msnufac
tuIer ask that the goods TO b. rewrapped be
him, bottles containing the genuine preparation
(gent rally if net in all cases, bought only after the
manufacturer asks that the goods be sent 10 hm)
are completely stripped OF all wrappers ana labels
and sent to the manufacturer. When DO, ties are
returned rewrapped by the manufacturer, the wrap
peri. etc. which have been taken from the genuine.
are then placed upon the bottles containing the
bogus. Feitrr has no plt &c of business and his
sales usually made 10 Io.ten, although he some
times sells goods to druggists, he generally assuming
AT other pame for such rposes The latest address
(223 Ridge avenue which he gives is beer saloon,
at which he receives the goods, but he is living
der an assumed name in another part of the city,
During l-s5 Totten and Fetier extensively prac-
ticed this scheme, vicimZing several manufacturers
and many purchasers.
In November 1854, Feter obtained wrappers for
bottles of Lydia f.. Pinkham's Vegetable CON-
pound" and in March, 1850. he applies for two dozen
mor. Fetter and Totten have also sought to obtain
wrappers for doz Hoods Sarsapsriila" for doZ.
"Cu icura Resolvent, for "Ayers Sarsaparills, for
ID bottles of" Hairs Asthma Cure" and for 80 bot.
ties OF W lstars balsan OF WIG Cherry"
"In most OF these Fettcr wrote III At the
wrappers had been damaged and washed of by
son OF 4 flooded cellar in which he had stored his
goods The wet cellar seems 10 have followed him
10 all his various places OF abode. MARCH 3, 1855,
he WI ote from lilo Thurlow street TO the Lydia 4.
Pinkham Mig Co: III have had the misfortune TO
have my cellar flooded with water alb two week
since and just had 1t pumped out to- day. In the
same letter he also says
81 have removed from my old stand (6S5 Fair.
mount avenue) account of the wet cellar and
leaking roof" Mr.. Jacob Cuert. H. who lives nj 6S5
Paramount avenue, and with whom Fetter resided,
pronOuDces the statement to the wet cellar and
leaky roof false Iood Mr.. Cuerten who is a shoe
Cuerten states that Feer would take into his room
the bottles which he had received and stored in the
cellar, and she freq ently him in his fill.
ing the bottles with liquids, and then taking them
away
On October ~, 1885, Albert T. Fetter was held un.
der bail by of the police magistrates of this city
on the charge vending medicines purp0rting TO be
put up by DIR. 7. c. Sanderson, but which contained
counterfeit wrappers. An indictment found
against him; and upon the trial o. the the
9th inst, it proved that he had come 10 Dr.
derson's Office and made inquiries as to the prices
and manner OF putting up the goods, that he had
sold Ia W IN. !. Iotten gross packages containing
the counterfeit wrappers, and that he had sold n
quantity n Geo. Is. Evans, containing OF her and bet
ter counter:eits OF the same wrappers. But he was
acquitted for want OF legal proof of his knowledge
that tine wrappers were counterfeit.
The prosecution upon Dr. Sanderson's charge
seems not to have turned him away from his meth
DDS for. since he appeared before the he
has written for wrappers to Messrs. A. G.. Aver
Co, seth w. Fowie n Sons, and b. W. Hair Son.
Let proprietors take warning from the above and
let the public beware of stores which supply pa
tent other medicines for less than well known
and reputable dealers can buy them" druggists
Circular and Chemical Gazette.