Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1917 — PATENT MEDICINE MAN FINED [ARTICLE]

PATENT MEDICINE MAN FINED

Arrested Monday Morning While Distributing Samples. A patent medicine agent the name of J. W. Bronson was arrested Monday morning for violating the law concerning the distribution of medicine samples. He •was taken before Squire Dean where he plead guilty and was fined $5 and costs, "amounting to $13.50 in all, which he paid. Bronson was distributing samples of Lane’s Pleasant Tablets to the houses in the city and was throwing the package onto porches instead of knocking at the door and handing same to some adult member of the family, as is required by law. His fine was little enough, for while his samples may have been harmless, many small children have been made very sick by finding medicine samples delivered in a like manner and eating them.