Records. U.S. Directory Service-U.S. Health Club (inclusive), 1909-1976.

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Records. U.S. Directory Service-U.S. Health Club (inclusive), 1909-1976.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning the U.S. Directory Service, publishers of a medical directory, 1974-1976; U.S. Distributing Company, a scam run by L.R. Perlman, who accepted payments from physicians for equipment which was never delivered, 1941-1942; UNITED STATES HEALTH BULLETIN, a fake health periodical, 1909-1919; and U.S. Health Club, a health food firm, 1958-1967.

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