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“Snake oil” advertisements…
January 28, 2012 by TimHughes
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Various patent medicine advertisements were all the rage in the late 19th century, and it seems they were more prevalent in Western rather than Eastern newspapers. This one (below) appears in the July 7, 1880 issue of “The Deseret News” from Salt Lake City:
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Filed under: Collecting Newspapers, Post Civil War, The Hobby, Unusual, Fun & Bizarre
Tagged: advertising, Deseret News, humor, Mormon, Salt Lake City
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