Tag: October 1908
Charles Magnus Arrested for Desertion, Louisville KY, 1908
On October 22, 1908, a shocking arrest was made at the Seelbach hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. Charles Magnus, who claimed to be the husband of Ada Gorman, the daughter of the late United States Senator Arthur Pue Gorman of Maryland, was taken into custody for deserting the United States Navy. Magnus, who enlisted under the…
Lydia E. Pinkham Arrested for Medical Deception, Eagle River WI, 1908
Dark secrets lurked beneath the façade of one of Eagle River’s most respected women, Lydia E. Pinkham. Behind her successful business, the Pinkham Laboratory, Pinkham was peddling a dubious elixir, claiming to cure the most intimate afflictions of women. The Vegetable Compound, a concoction of roots and unknown drugs, had captured the hearts and wallets…
