13609.  Adulteration, and  misbranding of  mineral -water.     V.  S. v.  William 
Clinton  Stamper  (Wizard Wells  Co.).     Plea of guilty.     Fine, $25.
(F. & D. No. 12104.    I. S. 6775-x.) 
On July 23, 1921, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Texas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in' the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
William Clinton Stamper, trading as Wizard Wells Co., Wizard Wells, Tex., 
alleging shipment by said' defendant, in violation of the food and drugs act as 
amended, on or about June 23, 1919, from the State of Texas into the State of 
Louisiana, of a quantity of mineral water which was adulterated and mis- 
branded. The article was labeled in part: (Bottle) " Wizard Mineral Water 
* * * Wizard Wells Company W. C. Stamper, Manager Wizard Wells, 
Texas." 
Examination of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that it was polluted.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy and decomposed animal or 
vegetable substance.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that certain statements, designs, and 
devices regarding the therapeutic and curative effects of the article, borne 
on the labels of the bottles containing the said article, falsely and fraudulently 
represented it ro be effective as a treatment, remedy, and cure for rheumatism, 
stomach troubles, kidney diseases, bladder disorders, eczema, sciatica, nervous- 
ness, female diseases, gout, erysipelas, and all blood diseases, when, in truth 
and in fact, it was not. 
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On March 11, 1925, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $25. 
R. W. DtrwLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.