Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-05
huEt MEDICINE MAKERS
SETTLED In NEW HOME,

SETTLED IN NEW HOME.
The Lightning Medicine company.
the industry whose removal here from
Muscatine has been frequently re-
ferred to in these columns, is now
comfortably settled in its new quart
ers in the Industrial home building.
Ar invitation has been issued to the
public to visit the plant this evening
from 1880 till IL O'Clock and be shown
about.
When visited last evening by an
ARGUS reporter The quarters presented
interior of the main room has been
entirely renovated with paint and pa
per and everything about the place
bears an air of refreshing newness.
The front of the main room is fitted
up for Office purposes. while the west
side is used for packing and storing
the finished product On the east
side is partitioned off II by 20 foot
enclosure which is used as a working
laboratory. The basement is used
for storage purposes, and there is a
neat Office on the second floor fol- the
business manager. In all, there are
about 5000 feet of1ioor space, and the
present somewhat crowded condition
of the main room shows that further
expansion will soon be necessary.
The Lightning Medicine company is
an institution that, from the nature,
extent and flourishing condition of its
business, is bound to do the city of
Rock Island much good. About TWEEN
ty persons will be employed in the
pant when it is in full running order,
and it will maintain 10 travelling sales
men. But the principal benefit to the
city will lie in the extent of the adver-
Using done, 20 states stretching from
Massachusetts to Washington being
thoroughly covered with matter bear
ing the name of the home city.
The company began very modestly
at Muscatine in 1896, Mes @rs. George
Gruber and Everett E. Null being The
founders. In 1898 stock company
was formed with Col. w. II Nuttig
as president. Upon the removal here
Col. Nuttig sold his interest to j I.
Robinson, of this city. The business
continued to grow until it became
necessary to locate at some point
where better shipping and mail facili-
ties were provided. aud, owing to the
good work of President F. w. Balm
son, w II Marshall aud other mem
bers of the Rock Island Club, this city
was chosen.
OF the several medicines manufac-
tured by the company, Mull's Pain
Killer, Mull's Pioneer Cure. and more
recently, Mull's Grape Toric, are put
forward as their principal remedies
With such prudence and energy has
their advertising been conducted that
the names of these medicines are al
ready household words in many parts
of the country. Mr.. Gruber attends
to the advertising and his novel
methods have been accorded special
mention in Printers Ink, one of the
most conservative and reliable jour
nails treating of advertising methods.
The plan that has probably done more
than any other to bring the Liz htning
medicines before the public is the one
adopted in guaranteeing cures. A
dollar draft is placed in every box of
medicine and the buyer is entitled to
cash it at any bank if he is willing to
offer evidence that the remedies were
not beneficial. A proof of the almost
universal satisfaction given lies in the
exceedingly small proportion of the
drafts the firm is called upon to hon.
or. it being less than three out of each
1000 AS evidence of the growing
fame of Mull's medicines. it is shown
that large consignments of them were
recently sent to Scotland, East Africa
and even to the Friendly islands, near
the coast of Australia.