The bad and Worthless are never imitated or contei'feited. This is especially true of a family medicine, and it is positive proof that the remedy imitated is ot thehigest value. As soon as it had been tasted and proved by the whole world that Hope Bitters was the purest, best and most valuable family medicine on cart many imitations sprang up and begau to :,teal the notices in which the press and the people of the country had expressed tke merits of H. 8., aud iv every way trying to induce suffering invalids to use their staff instead, expecting to make money on the credit and good name of EL B. Many others started nostrums pub up in similar style to H, 8., with vari'ms'y devised names i i which the word " Hoo" or " Hops "we i used in a way to induce people to believ I • ihsy were tue t-auie as Hop Bit.terp. Al > :-uch pretended remedies or cures, no matter [ what their style or name is, and especially i t!;ose with the word "Hop" ot "Hops j io their name or in any way connected with ' them or heir name, are imitations or counter- . leits, Beware of them. Touch none i <>f them. U3e nnthiui* but genuine, 1 { American Flop Bitters, with a bunch ■j ! <>r cluster of green Houb on the white label r : find Dr !3oule\i name blown in the gasp, • : )nni n •thing elsi. Prajißit-ts and Chemists o ; ; o warned a^aiusi deaiiug iv imitaoious or .s (.oumerfeiti. —Advt.
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Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 335, 29 February 1884, Page 5
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