In 1904, small bottles containing a magic, bullet proof ointment, were being bought up by Russian soldiers. Fearing an attack by the Japanese, the Russian soldiers smeared the magic ointment on themselves and, as a result, their skin turned an olive green.
The matter was, of course, investigate, and it was found that the men bought the ointment from a wise woman who had made it from the “marrow taken from the bones of saints.”
Delicious, right? But that did not stop the men from wanting to get their hands on the ointment. As the supply in the magic ointment got low, the price for it went up among the soldiers who were heading out to protect their country’s interests from the Japanese.
Article source: The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.), 13 May 1904.
