Records. Foso Company-Foster, Ira Judson (inclusive), 1909-1941.

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Records. Foso Company-Foster, Ira Judson (inclusive), 1909-1941.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials on Foso Company, maker of hair preparations including "cures" for baldness and gray hair, 1910-1941; Foster-Dack Company, maker of patent medicines, 1909-1941; Hugo Foster, an abortionist and promoter of birth control as a means of controlling population, 1928-1935; and Ira Judson Foster, an apparent crackpot who claimed to publish a medical journal, 1930.

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