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...Consolidated Royal Chemical Corp., which makes such proprietary drugs as Zymole Trokeys, Peruna, Boal's Rolls and Kolor-Bak ("Why have gray hair?"), is an amalgamation of three companies, Royal Drug Co. and Consolidated Drug Trade Products, Inc., in Chicago, and Consolidated Drugs, Ltd. in Canada. All three are the creations and property of the four Hirschfield brothers, James, Nathan, Harold and Irving. In 1916 James at 27 and Nathan at 25 had saved $12,000 from their retail drugstore in the Maxwell Street slum area of Chicago where they were raised, went into the wholesale drug business. Last...
...churchwomen met in the Hartman Theatre, named after the late Dr. Samuel S. Hartman, inventor of "Peruna," sensational oldtime patent medicine (which once contained about 40% alcohol). Other meetings were held in hotels, schools, theatres. Layman after layman, pastor after pastor, youth after youth, expounded world peace, church unity, Prohibition, etc., etc. As the days passed, it appeared that the convention was definitely Modernistic. Vigorously so, progressive, for example, was Samuel S. Wyer, baldish, mustachioed Columbus consulting engineer, who addressed the laymen thus: "I doubt if there is any other book which ranges from such sublime heights to such degrading...
...Baptist publications: "The Baptist papers, like the churches and the 'benevolences,' are chronically hard up. . . . [They carry ads of] Peruna, Mrs. Winslow's Syrup, Walker's Prostate Specific, and other such quack remedies . . . flaming editorials praising the quackeries of the late Dr. Albert Abrams of San Francisco. . . . Some of the advertising, especially in the South, comes very close to the borders of the obscene. . . . Authorized Life of William Jennings Bryan . . . Prostitutes. . . . But in general the Baptists do not seem to be readers. The articles in the denominational papers, chiefly by pastors, are devoid of literary allusiveness, and are often illiterate...
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