The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28
MEDICINE OR NOT.
Judge DanaHearing the Jamiaca
Ginger Case.
Druggist Being Tried for Sell
ing TT"
NEARLY ALL ALCOHOL
Contains SO Per Cent of Fluid
That IntOxicateS.
Doctors Testify to It's Use as a
Family Ron.oTu

| Unless it is a brewed booze you like,
what's the use to worry about prohibit
ton? Fine old whisky, which you
can't get. contains only so per cent
lcoho1, while that good old household
remedy, Jamaica ginger, contains SO per
! cent
That's according to the United States
Pharmacoepia read il, the district court
1 today when the famous old Jamaica
| Ginger case came up on appeal from
| the police court
| And there were a number of ex-
| ponents of the Jamaica ginger jug on
| hand to tell of it's delights. One of
/ them said it made him crazy as a loon.
Police Chief jenkins said it made them
! worse than that. He said they retained
| locomotor control much better than
after absorbing the dollarfive variety
| but were less sweet tempered, usually
! imagining what they they would do 20
Jack Johnson would take only a line
| to tell
Dr. w. S. Hunter, in response to the
| question whether or not tincture of
ginger is household remedy or an in
toxicant, replied:
In other states where I have prac-
ticed and also kept drug store,
Jamaica ginger, or tincture of ginger.
was invariably considered a medicinal
preparation and a household remedy,
but upon coming to Kansas I found
that it had changed color very remark
ably
All the old booze fighters who have
experienced any trouble in finding what
they were looking for, should have
heard DR.. William H. Fighters testi-
lnony. He told them of some % varie-
ties of innocent medicines which con-
tanned double the alcohol of whisky:
Jamaica ginger, he said, was an official
preparation and among the shelf
goods of any drug store. He was once
1 manufacturing pharmacist.
, Why, I've made gallons and gallons of
It, 1t is a household remedy all over the
world. There is not a woman in any
civilized country on the earth but wha-
knows of Jamaica ginger. Every drug
tore in the world keeps it on the shelf
| and there is scarcely a grocery store in
the small towns which does not sell il.
Any woman or child can buy it,
All this talk about ginger booze
comes in the way of proof that Drug
gist W. H. Wilson of Ala East Fourth
| street was guilty of violating the pro-
nibitory law last September when his
clerk sold a bottle to Matthew Frazier,
who with his brother Alexander,
r bricklayers, roomed at the German
l hotel. They were kept in fine state
, of intoxication and the police found
13 empty bottles with Jamaica ginger
S labels in their room.
The defense conducted by w. A. S
Bird attempted to show that the medi-
cine was taken to re-establish equili-
|
DR.. Fighter said he would not pre-
scribe it but that others might. He
said the doctors, because they could
not get real whisky or alcohol for q
or essence of peppermint, or lemon
extract, or vanilla extract or a score OF
other alcoholic preparations.
Time honored Peruna'' came ir
for reference along with bay rum
Rubifoam and other tooth washes
hair tones and relishes, but the evil
dence showed that the larger part o1
these had not been discovered by the
White Horse gang. What the gans
might do would be to adopt the United
States Pharmacoepia as the constitu
ton for the organization and all the
prohibitory laws in the Sunfiowel
state would not avail against them.
= Druggist A. o. Rosser also gave
valuable information on the availabl,
| ''boozes.'' According to his report
witch hazel would not be so slow il
\ getting a start while cologne would
!. finish up as fine and thorough a jag al
! was ever seen northeast of Kansa.
avenue.
. But what Judge Dana will do abou
! lit remains to be determined aftel
looking up some law. Judge Urmy il
not so bloomin' particular about the
| law points and doesn't need to be. L
! they don't like his opinion they go tt
l Judge Dana. So Judge Urmy, wher
[ he heard the case, decided at once OF
I Jamaica ginger in it's Kansas relation!
/ and gave it the ten count as an in,
S toxicant. He fined Druggist Wilson
: 500 and sentenced him to do 80 day:
: in jail. Mr.. Wilson is an old soldier
5 with gray locks and has kept a drus
5 store in Topeka for 81 years. He tolo
the court today that in all his expert
: ence Jamaica ginger was nothing but
a family medicine for cramps, collie
and those stomachic and intestine
. troubles mentioned almost exclusively
within the household.