Group Honors Skeleton w/ Breakfast (1934)

Group Honors Skeleton w/ Breakfast (1934) Well-dressed men & women sit around Chicago’s Palmer House table w/ formal place settings & skeleton at head of table. CU signing typed paper as members of a Post-Mortem Club willing their bones, first name Oakley Smith. “Dr” Smith is bald man w/ wire rimmed glasses. 02:14:27 CU skull w/ jaw moving. LS of table, pouring coffee. Skeleton speaks; milk put in coffee for skeleton. Man smoking; lights cigarette for skeleton. Alternative Medicine; Quacks; 1930s; Pseudo-Doctors; Self-promotion; Oddities; Gags; NOTE: Skeleton was that of J.M. McAdou late patient of Oakley Smith founder of Chicago College of Naprapathy which has 200 student but unrecognized. For complete info see Time Magaznie 13Aug34.