Word: peruna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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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