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From the July 1929 issue of Physical Culture magazine. The manager and stockholder of “Modern Vacuum Cap, Co” was Mr. Conrad Biel. He was married to a woman who had been involved, a few years prior to this ad, in a huge scandal concerning her own sales of a fraudulent obesity cure. She lost. Her name was Hattie Biel / Mrs. Conrad E. Biel.
Mr. Conrad Biel himself, also operated a complexion, beautifying, wrinkle-eradicating company under the name Verlie Gatlin. The Verlie Gatlin Company was declared a fraud by Federal officials in 1914. The Biels also marketed a “weak men” tablet, as well as “Plumpine,” for making thin people fat.
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