Records. Kohler Manufacturing Company-Kolar, Francis J. (inclusive), 1910-1959 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Correspondence, advertisements, clippings, and promotional materials relating to Kohler Manufacturing Company (purveyors of Kohler Antidote, a pain-killer), 1912-1949; Koken Laboratories (manufacturers of K.B.X., a hair tonic and dandruff "cure"), 1919-1949; Kokomo Medicine Company (promoters of a "female weakness cure"), 1910-1928; and Francis J. Kolar (a "painless, bloodless" healer of miscellaneous maladies), 1920-1959. The Kokomo Medicine Company's cure, known as "Vitopian Home Treatment" was promoted with the aid of an apparently fictitious front-woman called Ida M. Ade