Men Avoided Me: I Was Too Fat :

"I just love to dance - always did. But it got so the men simply would not ask me. I could see them looking my way and shrugging their shoulders. It was heartbreaking."

So goes a newspaper advertisement from the 1930s. What was the answer to the heartbreak?

Marmola. 4 times a day.

The heartbroken women was soon as "slender as a debutante" and all "without exercising, dieting, or draining my system with drastic purgatives."

Marmola was a thyroid substance marketed by known fraud Edward D. Hayes. The side effects were not so good:

Marmola may cause a user to drop dead, or cripple control [of] his heart, unless a physician stands by to control the dosage and reduction in weight. (from Time Magazine, 1935 )

Clipping photographed by monkeyouttanowhere .

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