Records. Vital Foods, Inc.-Vital-O Remedy Company (inclusive), 1909-1973.

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Records. Vital Foods, Inc.-Vital-O Remedy Company (inclusive), 1909-1973.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning Vital Foods, Inc., a health food firm, 1958-1969; Vitalator, a quackish therapeutic device used to treat a variety of ailments, 1973; Vitality or Vi-Tal-Ity, a bread marketed as a health food, 1928-1942; Vitalo, a patent medicine cure-all, 1909-1911; and Vital-O Remedy Company, makers of a quack device and patent medicines to cure male sexual weakness, 1920-1934.

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