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Snake Oil

Maintenance Phase

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Patent Medicine Ads

In 18 forty seven, two thousand newspapers ran 11 million patent medicine ads. Patent medicine was pitched at medicine shows, but also on street corners out of these,. like suit cases, on tripods. The pickup artistvery, like they would talk to some one and ten be like, oh, you can afford this. And then the person would be like, i can't afford it. It's like, ye had the sports cars only for people that like, have a sense of danger. But you wouldn't be interested in that.

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