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
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
1906 Cascarets ad, Minneapolis Journal
1906 Cascarets ad, Minneapolis Journal (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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