The story of Clark Stanley, the original snake oil salesman
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The story of Clark Stanley, the original snake oil salesman

Imagine: you live in the Wild West in 1893, and there's nothing good on Netflix that night. So what do you do for entertainment? Lucky for you, there's a medicine show in town performed by a man who calls himself the Rattlesnake King. He'll kill and boil a snake right in front of you, and then he'll try to sell you his patented snake oil. Did you know it cures everything from rheumatism to partial paralysis? Only 50 cents a bottle!

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