Ads pretending to be reliable advice for avoiding the flu, 1920

Ads for quack cures often appear to be articles with reliable advice for avoiding the flu.

This lengthy article is really an advertisement for a quack tonic that promises to guard against the flu. It includes testimonials by average people and doctors – both are most likely fake since the average reader in Hartford and Beaver Dam, Kentucky had no way to check to see if Mrs. Anna Huth of Louisville or Dr. McDonald of Indiana were real.
From The Hartford Herald, Hartford, Kentucky, April 7, 1920

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