Long
before Amazon, there was Sears and Roebuck. If you lived anywhere the
postal service delivered to, you could order everything from farm tools
to lingerie to opium. The opium has since been dropped from the catalog.
Mental_floss has a look at some of the more bizarre items you could
have ordered in 1902. Shown here are the magical Arsenic Complexion
Wafers that would improve “even the coarsest and most repulsive skin and
complexion." I first thought it was a bar of soap, but its likely that
these were sold to be ingested. More
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