Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1887 — A Challenge. [ARTICLE]

A Challenge.

This little fodder plant has taken such a marvelous hold of the people, it has provoked more discussion than anything of its kind ever known. Its discoverer has been the mark for cr.ticisni from everybody, while the Moxie has been qili -tly capturing the women. Drinking a large amount seem, to leave no disturbance. At the same time the cynics say it is coca, cocoaine, arsenic, strychnine, and alcohol in a new disguise. Meanwhile its discoverer, an eminent physician, offers .$25,000 to any chemist or other person who will find either or any other ingredient in it more injurious than Wintergreen or common bitter-root, which those who have tried it accept as a fact