1906 Cascarets ad, Minneapolis Journal (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
April 9, 1906: 'Your Thirty Feet of Bowels'
In the mid-1890s, the Sterling Remedy Co. introduced Cascarets Candy Cathartic, a brown tablet marketed as a pleasant-tasting purgative. Before long, the company was selling more than 5 million boxes a year.
July 24, 2015 at 3:04PM
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Family members and a lawyer say they have been blocked from access to the bedside of Bonfilia Sanchez Dominguez, while her husband was detained and shipped to Texas within 24 hours.