Man Versus Lion (Kind Of)

Writer and health scholar Natalia Petrzela sent out a tweet yesterday mentioning turn of the 20th century strongman and showman Eugen Sandow's book, Strength and How to Obtain It. I was instantly struck by Sandow's account of fighting a lion, Commodore, bare-handed. The lion was muzzled and wore big cat mittens. Sandow was clearly a character. He was involved in a lawsuit revolving around who was the first person to carry a horse in England, and he apparently tried to get those horses declared to be non-taxable work implements. If you compare the two accounts of the fight, I think you will find some discrepancies.

Here's the account as the story appeared in San Francisco's The Morning Call on 23 May 1894:

Source: Chronicling America 

Ye Olde Quackerie: Nuga-Tone

In the course of starting up this blog, I've come across an interesting topic that needs more attention than I could give it here. So, here's a manly man with a lively liver in a posing pouch.

Source: The Bee (Omaha) 17 March 1920

Ye Olde Quackerie: Rexall Americanitis Elixir

This splendid nerve food will cure your nervous derangement!

The Ward County Independent., February 21, 1907

Ye Olde Quackerie: Acker's Remedy