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Realizing- the importance of adopting standards for the character, 

 quality and strength of medicinal drugs, chemicals and preparations 

 of the same, the H. K. Mulford Company provided facilities for stand- 

 ardization work early in its history. Their foresight is now being 

 amply rewarded by the increased demand for their products. 



As the demand for the Mulford products is entirely due to the 

 requirements of the medical and pharmaceutical professions, the fact 

 that they are obliged to greatly increase their facilities at this time is 

 the best evidence of the confidence reposed in the house. 



DECISION A BLOW AT DRUG COMBINE. 



CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 6. — The drug combine was given 

 a hard blow by the sweeping decision by Judge Lurton, in the Federal 

 Appellate Court. The decision completely knocks out the system of 

 special contracts, which has been heretofore the subject of favorable 

 decisions in at least twenty United States courts. 



The case decided is that of Samuel B. Hartman, of Columbus, 

 Ohio, against John D. Park & Sons, this city. Hartman won in the 

 lower court and the Parks took the appeal. 



Hartman is the manufacturer of proprietary medicines. These he 

 put on the market through a system of contracts intended, it was 

 claimed, to maintain prices. Each jobber, it was asserted, is required 

 to sign a written agreement to sell only to retailers whose names shall 

 be furnished by him, and who shall have signed a retailer's agreement 

 with him, obliging them to sell only to consumers at a price named 

 by him. 



It was charged that the defendant company refused to enter into 

 any contract with the complainant and was therefore not entitled to buy 

 or deal in his medicines. 



Judge Lurton's decision is that the contract was in the nature of 

 a monopoly and a restraint of trade, as it maintained prices and con- 

 trolled sales. — Times. 



It is easy enuf to stand up for Truth when with the throng and to 

 the admiration of men, but O how much harder when with the solitary 

 stillness of our inner being and to the respect of our truer selves. — E. 

 A. DupiN. 



