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JOETHECROW · May 24, 2011

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/how-snake-oil-got-a-bad-rap/

RICKJJ59W · May 25, 2011

So I have been taking snake oil all of these years,who would have thunk[

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surfaceone · May 26, 2011

Thanks, Joe,

Enjoyed that article. I think the time is ripe for the return of the Medicine Shows...

JOETHECROW · May 26, 2011

Yeah Surf,...I'd pay to see a medicine show...The only competing event from back then would be a "cornfield meet".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fFoEYiM7lQ

JOETHECROW · May 26, 2011

I went and googled "Cornfield meet" I had supposed it was a more well known term, and seems as though it's not... So to clarify I pasted this segment of a letter found online. This explains it as well as I could.[

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"As I understand it, there used to be a whole industry where traveling showmen would stage head-on-collisions between junk locomotives, until there were a number of fatalities among spectators, and a stop got put to it. I doubt many of these staged wrecks were ever filmed."

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