No one called at his office, No. 61 Water street, to get one. Day after
day innumerable people went by him in the mad rush and hurry of life,
married but not mated, forgetting that Mr. Meltz could relieve them
without publicity.
Remorseless time had rolled on in this way for three months, now and
then picking out a fragment of the cornice on the new court-house and
braining a pedestrian with it, when one day Mr. Meltz was solicited by
the proprietor of a new remedy for indigestion and brain-fever to try
his medicine. He also told Mr. Meltz that in case of cure or beneficial
effects he desired to use his endorsement, and as the remedy was new
he proposed to issue an edition of 1,000,000 circulars containing the
endorsement of prominent professional people of Chicago.
Alanson G. Meltz bought a bottle and began using it. In three weeks the
following endorsement entered over a million and a half families in the
United States at the expense of the man who owned the remedy:
Chicago, Dec. 13, 1883.