QUACK LOZENGES.
SALESMAN FINED. Weling'lon. March 2f>. Arlington, March 2b. Donald Campbell, a salesman, w:t> lined £f> and costs for selling h./ongCs composed of charcoal, ..ugar ami gum and publishing statements concerning a drug likely to deceive the public. Tbc Crown prosecution said the advertisement alleged the lozenges were made from the juice of an Indian fruit and Would cure the wot si case of goitre while the patient slept. It would also cure ptomaine poisoning and indigestion. The cost of a box of (ill dozenges was about 1 ti and these were sold for 211/-. Defending counsel said the cost, of advertising the remedy was Ip (j. which made the total cost U -. The Magistrate commenled that ti person with defendant s imagination deserved a better Lite [ban to be prosecuted lor bis cure.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2863, 26 March 1925, Page 2
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135QUACK LOZENGES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2863, 26 March 1925, Page 2
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