People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — Protecting Cottolene. [ARTICLE]

Protecting Cottolene.

The N. K. Fairbank Company of Chicago have lately brought suit in the United States Court against W. L. Henry, of this city, for $5.u00.0u for infringement of their trade mark “Cottolene.” The N. K. Fairbank Company sets forth that they origi-. nated, prepared, and put upon the market a new food product consisting of refined Cotten Seed Oil and a small proportion of Beef Suet, making a pale yellow material of the consistency ana substance of lard, almost without odor and intended to take the place of lard in cooking. In order to indicate the source and genuineness of their new food product, they originated, coined, and used as a trade mark the word “Cottolene.” The healthfulness and many other advantages of Cottolene over lard were so apparent that Cottolene became at once very . popular and is now largely sold all over the country. The new food product and its name “Cottolene” have become widely known as the product of The N. K. Fairbank Company. The trade mark is described as a “trade mark for Oleaginous Food Substances, &c,” “consisting of a head or neck of a Steer or other bovine partially enclosed by sprigs and branches of the Cotton plant.” The N. K. Fairbank Company charges that W. L. Henry, of Macon, Ga., a dealer in fresh meats and food products generally, has been and is endeavoring unlawfully to avail himself of the benefits of the name “Cottolene” and its popularity; that he has been and is selling a product similar in kind, but inferior in quality, under the name of “Cottolene” to the injury of the original and genuine “Cottolene,” and to the loss and injury of its manufacturers The N. K Fairbank Company. The infringements upon the trade mark of “Cottolene” have become so frequent, and so many dealers are selling an inferior article and claiming it to be Cottolene that The N. iK. Fairbank Company are determined toxprotect their customers and propose to sue every retail dealer who is thus imposing upon his customers and infringing upon The N. K. Fairbank Company’s trade mark.— Telegraph, Macon, Ga. Mudoe—“Some villain got into my room last night and stole a pair of brand new trousers. I had them made in London.” Yabsley—“London made, ch? Oh, you are all right, then. They will turn up the first day it rains.” —Indianapolis Journal.