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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5035, 23 June 1884, Page 4

THE BAD AND WORTHLESS •ere never imitated ox .counterfeited. This is .especially true of a family medicine, aad it ,ia positive proof thattke remedy imitated is of the highest value. As soon as it had been .tested and proved by the whole world that ;sop Bitters was the purest, beßt and moat valuable family medicine on earth, many limitations sprang up, and began to steal the notices in which the Press and the people of the country had expressed the merits of H. 8., and ia every way trying to induce suffering invalids to use their atufx instead, expecting to make money on the credit and #ood name of H. B. Many others started nostrums put up in similar style to H. 8., with variously devised names, in which the word "Hop " or " Hops " were used in a way to induce people to believe they were the same as Hop Bittere, All such pretended remedies ©r cures, no matter what their style or name is, and especially f iose with the word "Hop" or " Hops" in their name, or in any way connected with them or their name, are imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them. Touch none of them. Fee nothing but genuine American Hop '