Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1917 — Assessed $13.50 For Distributing Patent Medicine Unlawfully. [ARTICLE]

Assessed $13.50 For Distributing Patent Medicine Unlawfully.

An agent giving the name of J. W. Bronson was haled into Squire Dean’s court this Monday morning wherte he was fined $5, which with the trimmings amounted to $13.50 in all, for the unlawful distribution of patent medicine. Bronson was making a house .to house canvass with an assistant of Lan’s Pleasant Tablets, which he threw on the porches without knocking at the door as the law says he should, and hand to an adult person, in order to prevent small children from getting the packages. Bronson paid the fine and' was relea.se(L . • The practice of distributing this medicine about so promiscuously should cease and the action taken against Bronson should serve as a warning against agents in the future.