Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

Mark Chrisler

Natural Sciences, Design, History, Arts, Science

4.8 • 922 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In 1926, the quiet, small-town of Kittanning, Pennsylvania was descended upon by a mob of salesmen and hucksters selling solutions to a peculiar problem: a mysterious and inexplicable epidemic of baldness. This week, we look at the weird and wacky history of baldness cures, and the even stranger story of a town in need of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.3	unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest. This is a high risk investment and you
0:31.5	should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. This episode is brought to you by Diet Coke.
0:40.2	Time for a Diet Coke break.
0:44.3	Enjoy what you like.
0:47.3	Just how you like it.
0:51.8	This is my taste.
0:55.5	What's yours?
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1:05.2	They came to a town called Kittning on trains and on trucks, by wagon and by foot. They went door to door.
1:13.6	They erected tents. They stood on soapboxes. They filled the streets, filled the square,
1:20.6	barking out offers, glad-handing passers-by. Some may have been brought to the town called
1:26.6	Kittening to do good, but most surely
1:30.3	were lured by profit, the chance to make a buck. They were salesmen, teams, and throngs of salesmen.
1:41.3	In January of 1926, the salesman had read about a small town called Kittening in the New York
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