Henry Gaylord Wilshire: The Millionaire Socialist

Biographical profile of Henry Gaylord Wilshire by Jesse La Tour in the Fullerton Observer, dated 25 October 2024 (byline and date copied directly from the fetched page on 2026-06-13). Used in this bundle to ground Wilshire's biography. Facts taken from the article: he was born in 1861 in Cincinnati and died in 1927 in New York 'having lost most of his fortune'; he and his brother speculated in Southern California real estate and 'Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles is named for the brothers Wilshire'; he was a prominent socialist who founded the magazine The Challenge, later renamed Wilshire's Magazine, building it to about 425,000 copies per issue; and 'in his later years, Wilshire dabbled in health improvement. He sold the Ionaco, an electric belt that supposedly improved health but was ultimately denounced by health professionals.' This bundle uses the year-level life dates (1861, 1927) and the real-estate, socialist-publisher, and Ionaco facts; it does not name the magazine in the case prose where brevity is preferred. The article is a present-day popular history; the contemporaneous critical source (Fishbein 1932) and the device's own advertising remain the primary basis for the I-ON-A-CO mechanism and sales facts.