After getting his own episode number wrong, Hugh examines a report from one hundred years ago this week about a spectacularly fatuous convocation of advertisers around the Cardiff Giant. The giant snake of Baldwinsville also puts in an appearance, as do various miraculously cured users of patent medicines.
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44: Mustapha Kemal Jape
43: The Death of Rev. Samuel J. May, Part 2
42: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory
41: The Death of Rev. Samuel J. May, Part 1
40: Gerrit Smith, Horace Greeley and Obscure Politics
39: Salt Spat, Part 2
37: Salt Spat, Part 1
36: Devil's Fiddle
35: Ham and Eggs For Two
34: Flame Wars
33: April 7, 1871
32: Fire Engines, Drunks and the Boys Jumping On the Cars
31: Irish Soda Bread
30: Dr. Platto
29: Big Day For Crime in Syracuse
28: The Relative Valuation of Little Girls and Bears
27: Halfway Through Reconstruction
26 - Statues and Asses
25: All the Difference in the World, Part 2
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