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Capp is already thinking about his next issue of LIME. Says he: "What I could do next might be something like picking 'The Slob of the Year.' You know, somebody who looks like the characters who give endorsements in the patent medicine ads-the guys who look like nothing. Or maybe there could be a character called Disgusting Yokum-somebody so disgusting I can't let the public see his face. LIME, of course, would be compelled to run his face on the cover, because this was news. Everybody demanded it, so LIME...
...record, Edison's patent for a kinetoscopic camera was issued on Aug. 24, 1891, Friese-Greene's on June...
...Both Friese-Greene and Edison, working independently, invented and patented their own versions of the early movie camera; later, both became involved in a patent suit. In 1910 the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Edison's claim, decided that Friese-Greene got there first...
Sullivan forsook the law in 1904 when, outraged at the quackeries of patent medicines, he wrote a Collier's article that helped create a national furore, and along with a mighty push from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, forced Congress to pass...
...drug-trade lingo, "ethical" drugs are never advertised directly to the public, but always to doctors and druggists through professional and trade journals, and are usually sold only on prescription. "Proprietary" drugs are the old patent medicines gone respectable; no holds are barred in advertising them or pushing over-the-counter sales...