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Quack cures filled Missoula advertising in 1880s
Jim Harmon writes, "Back in the 1800s, before Big Pharma and before any federal oversight, all sorts of products were being marketed directly to customers via the media of the day – the daily and weekly newspapers – with claims to cure everything that ailed you."