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Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc.

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An ad selling radium hand cleaner, printed in The Salem News, Ohio (1909) (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I hope they were lying about what was in there

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I still am too freaked out to wear the radium dial watch I inherited from my grandfather.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

This is a case where being dishonest would've been better for everyone

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

They were. It's actually uranium.