The Mars gazette : news from another world.
Arlington Chemical Company advertisement for liquid peptonoids, a dietary supplement "containing all the nourishing elements of beef, milk, and wheat", presented in form of science fiction story.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Artificial (Other) |
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Yonkers, N.Y., U.S. & Earth :
Arlington Chemical Co.,
[1907?]
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| Summary: | Arlington Chemical Company advertisement for liquid peptonoids, a dietary supplement "containing all the nourishing elements of beef, milk, and wheat", presented in form of science fiction story. |
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| Item Description: | Caption title. Text printed in two columns. An advertising book purporting to be a copy of a Martian newspaper. Printed in black, green, and brown, it simulates a charred booklet, edges browned and chipped away by an electrical storm the document passed through on entering the earth's atmosphere. The Martian newspaper, translated into English, tells of the landing on an oblong spaceship (a medicine package?) from which emerges C. B. Hustler, M. D., the sales representative of the Arlington Chemical Co. Hustler explains the wonders of the patent medicine Liquid Peptonoids to the Martians (who eat all sorts of indigestible substances and accordingly suffer greatly from indigestion). He lectures to the king and assembled physicians, cures several moribund patients, and is appointed royal physician to His Most Malignant Majesty, King Flammarion. At a thanksgiving banquet Liquid Peptonoids are served as a dessert to the main course. Before leaving Hustler projects a gigantic advertisement for Liquid Peptonoids into the sky. The Cushing Library/Science Fiction copy contains a letter (with envelope) from a bookseller offering the item to Gerry de la Ree dated April 11, 1959, and a reply letter (with envelope) from the current owners of the Arlington Chemical Company to De la Ree dated April 15, 1959 (De la Ree reproduced the booklet in facsimile in Fantasy collector's annual, 1975, pages 69-79). |
| Physical Description: | 16 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- New York -- Yonkers. |