Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-03-19


Food Law, which went into effect Janu-
airy !. mas reached apparently every
class in the community The grocers.
the butchers, even the candlestick
makers, are compelled now by Uncle
Sam to take the people into their con-
fidencc and tell them just what they are
selling. Uncle Sam has left very lit
tie to chance. The strong arm of the
Washington Government has compelled
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 the makers of patent medicines
They are now compelled by law to
state on their labels the names of dan
g"rous drugs used in the preparation of
their remedies. Like all laws that
work for the benefit of the public, the
Pure Food Law has made some manu-
facturers do some lively squirming;
while it has brought joy to the hearts
OF those who were giving the people a
square deal.
Mr.. COughlin. the we'll known drug
gist. in discussing this point with our
reporter, made some comm ants so in
teresting that they are reproduced here
for the benefit Of our readers.
"Therc's a good deal of satisfaction
in knowing you've done right" said
Mr. Coughlin, but there's much more
in having that fact RECOGNIZED.
"Four years ago we We're one of the
thousand leading druggists who met TO-
gethcr to discuss the patent medicine
situation. All of us expressed dis
satisfaction at having to sell remedies
whose formulas We're unknown to US.
AS servants of the public, of course, We
sold whatever our trade called for.
But we wanted to be able to sell our
customers at least ONE line of patent
medicines whose formulas we KNEW,
and THEY knew-remedies whose re-
liability and efficiency we could back
up with our own names and reputa-
tons.
1.-THE Rexall Remedies were the out
come of that meeting, and our CO.
operative company, the United Drug
Company, was formed to manufacture
them.
NO CURE-ALLS IN RENALL PLAN.
"No 'cure-alls.' no secret formulas
but 800 remedies, each the most sue
cessful and safest cure known to the
medical world for a specific human ill,
and every formula known to every
Rexall druggist and his customers
THAT was the ReXall plan from the
beginning,
"The great success Of Rexall Rene
dies has been no surprise to u.s. They
arc the BEST cures, and they're sold
in the SQUAREST way. Every ReXan
Remedy is sold with the understanding
that the customer. if dissatisfied, will
get the purchase money back by sim
ply returning the empty package or
hottlc-and we have always lived up to
this guarantee,
"The agitation against secret formu- |
la patent medicines during the past
two years has never affected RexalI
Remedies in the least because their
formulas were NEVER SECRET-and
everybody knew it,
UNCLE SAM ADOPTS THE REXALL
"Thc United States Government has
at last come around to our way of |
thinking. and passed a Pure Food and |
Drug Law. But we didn't need the |
Government to push us to tell what is /
in our remndies-we thought people /
ought to know that four years ago,
Even the Pure Food Law does not /
compel other patent medicine manu-
facturers to tell you as much about /
their preparations as we voluntarily /
tell you about Rcxall Remedies. and |
always have. Only the dangerous
drugs in other patent medicines are re-
vealed- the rest of their ingredients are
still kept secret from you. You know
that goes into Rexall |
Remedies their COMPLETE FORMU-I
LAS have always been open to the
public.
eve, like all the other Rexall drug
gists have always had the formulas of
the 800 ReXall Remedies in our possess
sion, and have given them to thou
sands of our customers.
Don't you think we have reason to
be proud of our connection with Rexall
Don't you think You'll
have reason to put faith in them?"