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Judge — March 30, 1929 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# "The Evolution of a Faker" This is an advertisement/editorial cartoon by General Mills (Gold Medal Flour) attacking food faddists and alternative health claims. The three panels show: 1. **Top**: A medicine faker of the past hawking dubious remedies (with Native American imagery and bottles) to gullible crowds 2. **Middle**: A modern food faker promoting pseudoscientific diet books and false dietary claims 3. **Bottom**: Contemporary audience susceptible to misinformation The cartoon argues that while medicine fraud evolved, food quackery persists in modern guise—people still follow unproven dietary advice instead of consulting licensed doctors or dietitians. The advertisement then directs readers to request factual nutritional information from General Mills, positioning the company as a trustworthy authority against charlatans.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
| “THE MEDICINE FAKER OF YESTERDAY. | 2 ¢ EAT I SYNTHETIC ICK DIETS _ HAY} [yD Hoxun Par $52 | THE FOOD FAKER OF TODAY ANT This cartoon is published in an effort to awaken the public to the danger of following the literature and advice of food faddists or fakers when they should depend on a licensed doctor or dietitian for correct diet information. & To anyone interested, we shall be glad to mail, without charge, a copy of “Facts About Bread and its Rightful Place in the Diet”—a booklet containing statements by the country’s most eminent nutritional authorities. & Address Dept. 315, Washburn Crosby Company, millers of Gold Medal Flour, Minneapolis, Minnesota. COPYR., 1029, GENERAL MILLS, INC comicbooks.com