Page 2 Advertisements Column 4

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1402, 11 December 1884, Page 2

Take Hop Bitters three times a day, and you will have no doctors’ bills to pay. See.— Advt.] “ Rough on Rats,”—Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, -uits, bed-bugs, beetles, insects, ! skunks, jack rabbits, gophers. Druggists, The N.Z. Drug Co., General Agents. 2 The Bad and Worthless are never imitated or counterfeited. This is especially true of a family medicine, and it .is positive proof that the remedy imitated is of the highest value. As soon as it has been tested and proved by the whole world that Hop Bitters was the purest, best, and most valuable family medicine on earth, many imitations sprung up and began to steal the notices in which the press and the people of the country had expressed the meritsj of H. 8., and in every way trying to induce suflering invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the credit and good name of H. B. Many others staged nostrums put up in simi- ‘ lar style to H. 8., with variously devised names in which the word “ Hop ” or “Hops ” were used in a way to induce people to believe they were the same as Hop Bitters. All such

pretended remedies or cures, no matter what their style or name is, and especially those with the word “ Hop ” or “ Hops ” in their name or in any way connected with them or their name, are imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them. Touch none of them. Use nothing but genuine American Hop Bitters, with a bunch or cluster of green Hops on the white label, and Dr Soule’s name blown in the glass. Trust nothing else. Druggists and chemists are warned against dealing in imita tions ** counterfeits, ” <