Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1878 — Can the Truth Overtake a Lie? [ARTICLE]

Can the Truth Overtake a Lie?

Investigation discloses the fact that the lady reported in the Associated Press dispatches, about August 10th, to have died in Chicago after two weeks’ use of some reputed remedy for corpulency, had not taken Allan’s Anti-Fat, but had used a preparation put up by a regular physician in Luzerne, Pa. Allan’s Anti-Fat is manufactured in Buffalo, N. Y., by the undersigned. We have already sold over 100,000 bottles of it It has therefore been taken by thousands, and we challenge proof that it has ever harmed anybody, unless the reduction of obese persons from 20 to 60 pounds, leaving them healthy and strong, is considered a misfortune. Furthermore; we hereby offer $5,000 reward for evidence showing that it contains poisonous or injurious ingredients. We also offer $5,000 if we cannot prove that it has reduced numbers of persons as stated herein, and always without injury. It is said a lie will outtravel the truth any time; but we trust that those newspapers that have misled the public by saying that physicians attributed the lady’s death to the use of Anti-Fat (which is only put up by us, the term “ Anti-Fat ” being our trade mark), will correct the false impression they have conveyed, by publishing this refutation. Botanic Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y.