Re: "THE LIONS" MINERAL WATER WORKS CO.LTD 1906
Regarding the 1906 date ... Is there a volume amount on the bottle? I.E. 7 oz. / 10 oz.
There are exceptions to every rule, and the exception here is that a U.S. Food and Drug act would not necessarily apply to a Canadian product. However, there "may" be a connection. Below is a copy/pasted text explaining how "The Gould Amendment" to the U.S.F.D.A. act of 1906 required all food and drug related products (including soda bottles) to have the content amount on them. But note the deadline was not until 1914. I often use this for U.S. soda bottles as a means to date them. Typically any embossed soda bottle with the content amount (ounces) on it would likely date after the 1914 deadline.
On March 3, 1913, Congress passed H. R. 22526, generally known as the Gould Amendment to the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. Although the Pure Food and Drug Act demanded a great deal of labeling information, it did not require the inclusion of volume specification. The Gould Amendment corrected that oversight when it stated that the "quantity of the contents be . . . plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count" but continued to explain that "reasonable variations shall be permitted." Although the law went into effect immediately, it clarified that "no penalty of fine, imprisonment, or confiscation shall be enforced for any violation of its provisions as to domestic products prepared or foreign products imported prior to eighteen months after its passage" (U. S. 1913:732). In other words, the industry actually had a grace period in required compliance until September 3, 1914.
Where was it found? In Canada? Thanks. jgas
