Ep 248 - Norman Baker & The Quack's Cure for Everything

Ep 248 is loose! And we have the tale of an inventor, performer, broadcaster and conman Norman Baker.

Who was this boisterous chap from Iowa? Did he really have a cure for cancer? And what trained animals do you send through the mail?

The secret ingredient is...watermelon!

 

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Sources this week include Border Radio: Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves by Gene Fowler,

https://www.visitmuscatine.com/177/Norman-Baker

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charlatan-ozarks-still-looms-over-haunted-crescent-hotel-180973743/

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-haunting-history-of-a-hucksters-cancer-cure

https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/norman-baker-4885/

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/dr-norman-baker-when-quackery-kills-1257a3638419

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