If you’ve got a fat problem, have cheer. You can now, in the year 1902, eliminate it with a powder.

Thank goodness. Snakeoil is being offered in new, desiccated formula. Just add water.

Back in the day, people used to pay fifty cents for the Sears Roebuck catalogue. Fifty cents! That seems high to us, even today.

“Dr. Rose’s Obesity Powder” [The 1902 Sears, Roebuck Catalog via BoingBoing]

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