The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-03-12
MOUNTAIN CITY DRUG co.
pATTED on THE BACK BY UNCLE SAN.

ft't.--,s THO 0nSANizAIiON
WAS FOUR YEARS AHEAD
OF THE PURE FOOD
The Mountain City Drug Co. Was As.
lively Identified With the United
Drug Company, Makers Of Rexaii
Remedies, Which Has Been More
Than Complying With the New Law.
Even Before !. Was Thought Of in
Congress.
The widespread interest In the Pure
Food Law, which went into effect Jan.
uary !, has reached apparently every
class in the community. The grocers.4
the butchers, even the candlestIck
makers, are comnelled now. by Uncle
Sam to take the people INTO their con.
ddence and tell them Just what they
are selling. Uncle Sam has left very
little TO chance. The strong arm Of
the Washington government has com.
PEELED manufacturers TO state plainly
on their. labels what adulterants have
been used in preparing the package.
Perhaps no other class of manufac
turers has been more deeply stirred
Than tile makers of -"patent medl-
cines. They are now compelled ~
law to state on their labels the names
Of dangerous drugs used in the prap-
aration of their remedies. Like all
laws that work for the benefit of the
public, the Pure Food Law has made
SOME manufacturers do some lively
squlrming; while it has brought Joy
to the hearts of those who were Civ.
ing the people square deal.
A member of the Mountain City
Drug Co. in discussing this point with
Our reporter, made some coments 30
interesting that they are reproduced
here 'or the benefit of our readers.
Tires a good deal OF satisfaction
In knowing you've done right" said
the member, but there's much more
in having that fact RECOGNIZED.
-Four years ago we were one of the
The leading druggists who met to.
giether to discuss the patent medicine
situation. All of us expressed dissatis.
faction at having to sell remedies
whose formulas were unknown to us
AS servants of the public, Of course
we sold whatever our trade called for
But W. wanted to Lc able to sell orr
customers at least ONE line of patent
medicines whose formulas we KNEW
and TEHY knew-rcmedles whose re.
liability and efficiency we could hack
up with our own names and reputn.
lions.
the Rexall Remedies were the orr.
come OF that meeting. ana our coopera.
tive company. the United Drug Com.
pany, was formed to manufacture
them.
No cure-alIs In EexaII Plan.
No 'cure-alls.' no secret formulas
but 3bl remedies, eacn the most s,,c.
cessfnl and safest cure Known 70 the
medical world for specific human
Ill. and every formula known to eyery
Rexall druggist and his customers
THAT was the Rexall plan from the
beginning!
The great success of Rexall Rene.
dies has tseen no surprise to us. They
are the BEST cures, and they're sold
in the soUAREsT way. Every RexaIl
Remedy is sold with the understandings
that the customer, If dissatisfied, will
get thu purchase money back by sim
ply returning the empty package or
bottle'-and we have always lived I'M
10 this guaranteed!
The agitation against secret for.
mula' patent medicines during the mast
two years has never affected Rexall
Remedies in the least, because their
formulas were NEVER SECRET-ana
everybody knew 1t,
Uncle Sam Adopts the RexaIl Pla,
"rhe United States government has
at last come around TO our way n,
thinking, and passed Pure Food and
Drug Law. But We didn't need the
government to push US to tell what is
In. our remedies-we thought peonIc
ought TO know that four years arot
Even the Pure FOOD Law does not
compel other paten: medicine manu-.
faetures to tell you as much about
their PREPARATIONS as we voluntarily
tell you about Rexall Remedies. and
always have. Only the dangerous
drugs in other patent medicines are
revealed-the rest of their ingredients
are still kept secret from you. You
know EVERYTHING that goes
into Rexall Remedies their COM.
PLETE FORMULAS have always been
open to the public.
I'VE. like all the other Rexall drug.I
gists. baye ALWAYS had tha formula, -