Records. Washington Newsletter-Waste Disposal (inclusive), 1911-1970.

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Records. Washington Newsletter-Waste Disposal (inclusive), 1911-1970.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning WASHINGTON NEWSLETTER, a periodical published by "Bishop" Oliver C. Sabin and devoted to faith healing, 1911; Washingtonian Home, a sanitarium for drug and alcohol users run by a cancer-cure quack, 1914-1943; Wate-On, a patent medicine alleged to aid in gaining weight, 1956-1970; and waste disposal (file concerns disposal of sewage from railroad passenger trains), 1929.

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