The Republican journal., 1905-12-07
MAKES YOU NEW ALL OVER.
But Post Office Department Issues Frau,
Order Agafntt Maine Company sellfn,
Such Preparations.

Order Agafntt Maine Company sellina
Such Preparation.
Especial Dispatch to the Boston Herald.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. q. 1908. A
promise by highly capitalized company
organized in Maine that its medicinal pro.
been Investigated by skeptical scientists s' of
the agricultural department. They find no
evidences of eternal youth in the drug,
Therefore, the post Office department TODAY
issued fraud order against the concern.
It Msi is the Nutriola Company, incorporated
$l5OoOo Subsequently the capital stock
was increased to $5OO,OO0 Its business
headquarters are in Chicago. Edward r,
Hanson is the promoter.
Inc pest office department in its order
state states that the principal business of the
concern is selling its own stock on the in
sta!ment plan to small investors. One
claim was that "nutriola and nature are
| conQ1erOrs of disease" The company de-
clared that it spent 10 years and $50, 900 dis
covering the secret.
The issuing of a ''fraud order'' means
that no mail can be delivered to the con-
Germ. All letters addressed to the Nutriola
Company will be opened at Chicago by the
postal authorities and with their contents
returned to the senders.
from the Chicago journal of July 26th,
stating that E. F. Hanson, general mana
ger OF the Nutriola Medical Co., was held to
the Federal grand jury by U. S. Commits
sloner Humphrey on bonds of $1,000 on a
charge of misusing the mails. A report of
the hearing followed in which several
pamphlets containing Objectionable reading
matter were introduced by the Assistant
District Attorney, who it was said would
prosecute the case if the grand jury votes
an Indictment in October" and further at
is limited by federal officials that another
charge may also be lodged against Hanson
at that time" 1t may be added here that
nothing further as to the case has come to
our knowledge, and presumably the grand
jury did not vote an Indictment in October.
August 10th The journal published a
statement from Mr.. Hanson in his own
defence in which he said that s"rhis article
(the one from the Chicago JournaD was
evidently inspired by the gang of black
mailers l have been fighting, inasmuch as
no other paper in Chicago published it,
Then, after telling how a few copies of
medical work that had been cancelled be-
cause of an Objectionable paragraph got
into circulation, he said: "The post office
inspectors who have been watching us for
the past year discovered copy of the for
mer edition that had been sent through the
mails and they charged me with causing the
matter to be mailed, as 1 am manager of
the Nutriola CO..
The original Nutriola Company was start
ed in Belfast and it's preparations, salve,
soap, ETC., were put on the market in at
tractive packages. 1t suspended operations
some time before Mr. Hanson went west,
his attention having been given to exploit
ing the Belgian hare industry with The
Eastern Importing and Breeding Company
When he went to Chicago Mr. Hanson en-
gagged in promoting a fire extinguishing
compound of which great things were ex-
pected, but which were not realized, and
then revived The Nutriols Company, and
report says had met with great success in
selling stock. Naturally enquiries were
received here as to Mr.. HansOn's RESPONSE
bility and financial standing, and the reply
OF Frank K. Wiggin, then cashier of the
Peoples National Bank, now the Waldo
Trust Co., to one of these enquiries led to a
libel suit for S25,oo0 by Nj. Hanson against
Mr.. Wiggin and the Waldo Trust Co. The
papers were served prior to the April term
of the S. j. Court and it was said that the
case would come before the court at the
September term, but nothing has ever come
of it: