The Welcome Guest [1903 Chicago Patent Medicine].

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Unrecorded Portland, Maine pulp magazine, perhaps a one-off, i.e., essentially a vehicle for advertising novelties, cheap household goods, and patent medicines—many of the latter from Chicago. The original content of the Welcome Guest are four dime novel-like stories written especially for the paper: The X-Ray Eye by Wm. H. Aultman; Off Madman’s Reef by Miss Edith Snow; A Midnight Attack by Willis S. Meade; and A Trial at Farming by Leon G. Doyle.

Patent medicines advertised include Vitæ-Ore from Theo. Noel Company in Chicago (the cover ad), Dr S. Mixer’s “Sure Cure for Cancer,” Ren-Car-Ta blood purifier from Saginaw Medicine Co., Cascarets for babies from Sterling Remedy Co. of Chicago and New York, “Electric Belts” from Vienna Electro-Medical Institute in Chicago, medical consultations by Dr. Sproule, B.A., “Catarrh Specialist” of Boston, and another electric belt, this one from Monarch Electro-Medical Institute in Chicago.

Price: $85.00