04/16/1919: Bayer tablets to Cure Influenza
Item
Title
04/16/1919: Bayer tablets to Cure Influenza
Creator
Bayer
Source
Newspapers.com
Date
April 16, 1919
Coverage
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Description
Bayer advertisement claiming to lessen the pain of la grippe.
Format
Newspaper
Rights
Public domain. For more information contact Special Collections and Archives, McIntyre Library, UW-Eau Claire.
Publisher
The Eau Claire Leader
transcription
"You must say "Bayer". Never ask for merely Aspirin tablets. The name "Bayer" means you are getting the genuine "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin," proven safe by millions of people. Don't buy Aspirin tablets in a pill box. Insist on getting the Bayer package with the safety "Bayer Cross, on both package and tablets. No other way!" Beware of counterfeits! Only recently a Brooklyn manufacturer was sent to the penitentiary for flooding the country with talcum powder tablets, which he claimed to be Aspirin. In the Bayer package are proper directions and the dose for Headache, Toothache, Earache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Sciatica, olds. Grippe, Influenza-Colds, Neuritis and pain generally. "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin," American made and owned are sold in vest pocket boxes of 12 tablets, which cost only a few cents, also in bottles of 24 and bottles of 100 casules. Aspirin is the trademark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid."