Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-10-11
Mr.. Geo. w. Putnam
Tells What He
Knows
A BOSTON PAPER INVESTIGATES
TIE MERITS OF
VINoL
A Subject That Is Agitating the
Whole Country

ifom wasting diseases hopes Of r
newed health and prolonged life.
OF enough Importance have thes
stories appeared that special inteI
view with Mr.. Geo. W. Putnam Of Sc
lem, who is interested himself in thi
new preparation which is called Vinol
was thought advisable.
Our reporter had no difficulty il
finding Mr.. Putnam's place Of busi
ness. The first man he met said: "Oh
yes Mr.. Putnam is the man who has
the wonderful new remedy that will
cure everything that people always
thought cod liver oil would help. ,,
and he was speedily directed to Mr..
Putnam e enterprisiBg and busy es-
sablisbment. Mr.. Putnam is business
from the word go, but rather objected
to the fame Of this preparation being
spread abroad as a discovery.
Why" said Mr.. Putnam, "this is
no more a new discovery than was
the moon when it was first viewed
through a telescope The discovery
existed simply in the fact Of finding
out means Of getting at the truth we
were after. Perhaps the method
might be considered a discovery. but
what we have found has been known
Tor years, and 1t is nothing more nor
less than the valuable medical proper.
ties that have always existed in the
cod = liver, and for which cod liver oil /
mas been prescribed by so many physi.
cians You see II is just this way. Cod
liver oil (perhaps you have taken IL
yourSelD is something that IL very
valuable In all sorts Of wasting dis. /
eases, aud in itself is extremely dis.
agreeable. Why | firmly believe thatI
great many eases Of con1mption
even. could be cured IL IL were possi
Die Tor the patient to take enough cod
liver oil 10 let its virtues become man.
ifesi. For those who have tendency
TO sore throat, bronchitis. coughs
eoids, for every one Of an anemic dis
position, IL has always been consideredI
Is simply invaluable; and yet il hasl
more often been necessary TO abandon
tS use than II has been possible ia
iev'Se way Of administering IL.
Two eminent French ehemistsI
'tarted in and got interested in the
natter, aud after years OF study thew
ave succeeded in extracting fromI
he liver Of the cod just what il nee. =
sSary, and have left behind that oh. H.
"SionS greasy, viIe-tasting fattyI !,
natter, the thought OF which even has a
urhed the siomaehs Of thousands. =
NAT ~ all over now. We have inst !,
ne thing at last. We have found II -
'"y OF getting the kernel out of theI =,
ut. u'
This Vinol that is so much talksdI
oont Is Just exactly that. IL ia theI
'neeatrated essence of madieino 90
'and IN the Gods liver that does N. 70
'oa The grease is like the she'll of W
70 nut absolutely useless, only n IL nj
'nerent from the shell Of the nut he. ii,
'un" besides being useless IL is ex W,
eme'y obnoxious and disaereeable 10 NJ
ght, taste and smell. to
We have now taken this extract and Re
;. a sufficient quantity of IL IN oeI
vicious tasting table wine. We have on
10 adaHd small amount Of organic orr
On This heightens the tonic e,Fee, me
the vine. The extract OF the cod, as
'ef comes In just the right propor.
~ to do the greatest amount ofI
od' "Here, drink this." said Mr
'.nans as be reached Tor bottle TOT
. poured forth wha, appeared to be ="
a which melled like, delicious 'a'
h wine. use
ihs reporter hesitated. The thouyht "'
Gods liver, or anything TO do with p'
'"' brought back memories Of thel 80
u, when he himself haa made ha,oI. ho'
"geles TO take that awful medi.
g. 90 ahead and drink H. said a.
Pninam. The reporter dld 40 and 70"
Aed nR Eyes, l know. but that Is 20
right ! iAessht you were going ''0
give nae some Of that vinol YOU
70 talking about, and did not know \
u was your custom 20 treat a Is
. interviewing YOU, to drlnk like Iatt,
: Cou
" Putnam laughed. "wen. that Iers
''a"l that you have just taken lord,
> yea know that part Of what, ress
yoa u true II aid not taste had. man
nf' And Il surely did not Ithei
eH," said Mr. Putnam, "le. me viii
yoe something else. Yon Aavelhe
saken, eeadeaaed, of the curative tof