I can’t find the label via Google images, “Saint Joseph asprin” or just “asprin,” but I remember a brand in the 60’s that had an old B&W portrait photo of a priest. Was there really such a label, and if so, who was the priest?
Have you tried spelling it “aspirin”?
St. Joseph’s Aspirin seems to only have a heart label, now.
Even in the 60s, St. Joseph’s didn’t have a priest. By then, there were few aspirin brands – Bayer was the one that did any advertising. The rest were generally store brands. St. Joseph’s was the only other brand name aspirin that I recall, but it was marketed as “aspirin for children” with only 81 milligrams. That market crashed when it was discovered aspirin caused Reye’s syndrome in some children and they weren’t to take it, but St. Joseph’s survived as a low-dose aspirin for adults.
Though Trade and Mark weren’t priests, Smith Brothers Cough Drops did have a black and white image of the brothers in the 60s.
Ah - found it: Father John’s
(Not aspirin - just basically liquorice syrup) and I did remember correctly: he looked like one of those Irish priests that scare me to this day like some people remain scared of clowns.
They are pretty much the same if the potency is the same. The brand name sells their reliability, which means little after such major brands as J&J have had problems. The St. Joseph brand must be your thought. I believe it had a person on the label that looked like a smocked person that you could think of as a saint, whatever they might look like.
Whenever I see a religious figure used as a sales pitch it really rankles me. All I can think of is PBS’s Covert Bailey selling his exercise machine. This doctor Bailey started talking about exercise and health on PBS. Then he developed this exercise rider. PBS canned him because of the commercial interest. Then people started suing him for back injuries. He countered with commercials using a nun riding the bike and saying how healthy it was for her. Case closed.