I wonder if the "Dr Kings New Life Pills" bottle I found last month could be the antidote to sweet old "Aunt Hannah's Death Drops?"
Carl Steen
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From: Bob Skiles <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wed, Feb 12, 2014 12:55 pm
Subject: Re: Help diagnosing "Aunt Hannah's" glass bottle
American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record 38 [April 22, 1901]:239
"They do such things as this in the tranquil borough at the further end
of the Brooklyn Bridge: 'Do you handle Aunt Hannah's Liquid Death Drops?
If Not, Why Not? Trade prices on application to Aunt Hannah's Nephews,
Jenkins Bros., 250-2 Pulaski street, Brooklyn, N. Y.' Are the death
drops for killing rats, bedbugs or book agents? asks the National
Advertiser. Aunt Hannah's lively nephews [that is to say, her living
successors] omit to say."
USDA - Insecticide and Fungicide Board - Service and Regulatory
Announcements No. 31 - Issued November 10, 1920, pp709-710:
[Case] 562. Misbranding of "Aunt Hannah's Liquid Death Drops," U.S. v.
H. Trauerts & Co. Plea of Guilty. Fine, $10. (I.&F. No. 687, Dom. No.
13604).
On July 8, 1910, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of
New York, acting upon a report by the secretary of Agriculture, filed in
the District Court of the United States for the said district an
information against H. Trauberts & Co., a corporation, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
alleging the sale and delivery, on June 6, 1917, by the said defendant
to McKesson & Robbins, New York, N. Y., of a quantity of an article,
contained in 720 cans, labeled "Aunt Hannah's Liquid Death Drops," which
was a misbranded insecticide within the meaning of the Insecticide Act
of 1910. It was further alleged in the information that on June 12,
1917, the said McKesson & Robbins shipped 36 of the said 720 cans of the
article, so sold and delivered to it by the said H. Trauerts & Co., from
the State of New York; that the cans containing the article and the
contents and labels thereof were not altered in any manner whatsoever
after the delivery by H. Trauerts & Co. to McKesson & Robbins, and when
so shipped by McKesson & Robbins from the State of New York into the
State of New Jersey were intact and in the identical condition as when
received by McKesson & Robbins from H. Trauerts & Co.; that before the
time of said sale and delivery of the article by H. Trauerts & Co. to
McKesson & Robbins, H. Trauerts & Co. affixed to the labels on the cans
of the article a guaranty, to wit: "Guaranteed by Aunt Hannah's Chemical
Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. Under the Insecticide Act of 1910, Serial No. 203;"
and that by reason of the said sale and delivery of the article by H.
Trauerts & Co. to McKesson & Robbins, and the said guaranty, H. Trauerts
& Co. was amenable to the prosecutions, fines, and other penalties which
would, but for the said guaranty, attach in due course to McKesson &
Robbins.
Misbranding was alleged in the information (1) in that the packages
and labels bore statements regarding the article which were false and
misleading, and (2) in that the article was labeled and branded so as to
deceive and mislead the purchaser: In this, that statements, borne on
the labels affixed to the cans containing the article, represented that
the application of the article in the method and manner as directed by
the said statements would exterminate bed bugs, roaches, fleas, moths,
ants, and vermin of all kinds in and about households and human
habitations, whereas in fact and in truth, the use and application of
the article in the method and manner as directed by the said statements
would not exterminate bed bugs, roaches, fleas, moths, ants, or vermin
of all kinds in and about households and human habitations; and in this,
that statements borne on the labels affixed to the cans containing the
article, represented that the use and application of the article on and
to carpets, bedding, and upholstery in the method and manner as directed
by the said statements would destroy all germs, would destroy all
insects, and would destroy all deposits of eggs of all insects in such
carpets, bedding, and upholstery .... would be effective as a
disinfectant for sick rooms and toilet rooms ....
On October 6, 1919, the defendant withdrew a plea of not guilty
previously entered and entered a plea of guilty to the information, and
the court imposed a fine of $10."
Bob Skiles
On 2/12/2014 10:25 AM, geoff carver wrote:
> This is particularly interesting:
> WE CONTINUE TO STAND PROUDLY IN SUPPORT OF OUR BRAVE MILITARY FORCES AND
> THEIR FAMILIES WHO ARE SO VALIANTLY DEFENDING OUR NATION AND THE WORLD FROM
> UNGODLY TERRORISTS. THESE WONDERFUL MEN AND WOMEN NEED TO KNOW THAT THE VAST
> MAJORITY OF AMERICANS ARE BEHIND THEM ALL THE WAY AND THAT THEIR CAUSE IS A
> NOBLE ONE. OUR DAILY PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU....AND ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE WHO
> HAVE LOST THEIR PRECIOUS LOVED ONES WHILE SERVING OUR COUNTRY SO HONORABLY.
> MAY GOD BLESS YOU MIGHTILY AND COMFORT YOU IN THE CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE THAT
> THEIR SACRIFICE IS NOT IN VAIN
>
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>
> Googling I found this website. They depict an aqua peppersauce bottle from
> a privy in Louisiana, ca. 1890.
> http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/aunt-hannahs-sauce-bottle-1890-dug-119
> 676020
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