Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Center of Controversy -- One of the so-called "magic spikes", center of controversy in a federal court case here, is held in hand of a witness. Defendants in the trial are Vrilium Products Co. and three officers of the firm, President George C. Erickson; Vice-President Robert T. Nelson, Jr.; and his mother, Gertrude W. Nelson, treasurer. As a result of the sale of the spikes the three are on trial on charges of violating the food and drug act. The government alleges the device is a marketed cure-all having none of the health giving properties its promoters claim. The government Tuesday used a Geiger counter in its efforts to prove the spikes are not wonder healers.
Center of Controversy -- One of the so-called "magic spikes", center of controversy in a federal court case here, is held in hand of a witness. Defendants in the trial are Vrilium Products Co. and three officers of the firm, President George C. Erickson; Vice-President Robert T. Nelson, Jr.; and his mother, Gertrude W. Nelson, treasurer. As a result of the sale of the spikes the three are on trial on charges of violating the food and drug act. The government alleges the device is a marketed cure-all having none of the health giving properties its promoters claim. The government Tuesday used a Geiger counter in its efforts to prove the spikes are not wonder healers.
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Center of Controversy -- One of the so-called "magic spikes", center of controversy in a federal court case here, is held in hand of a witness. Defendants in the trial are Vrilium Products Co. and three officers of the firm, President George C. Erickson; Vice-President Robert T. Nelson, Jr.; and his mother, Gertrude W. Nelson, treasurer. As a result of the sale of the spikes the three are on trial on charges of violating the food and drug act. The government alleges the device is a marketed cure-all having none of the health giving properties its promoters claim. The government Tuesday used a Geiger counter in its efforts to prove the spikes are not wonder healers.

Associated Press · [ca. March 1950]

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