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December 1905 advertisement for Collier's magazine's exposé of the patent medicine fraud, culminating in Samuel Hopkins Adams' 11-part series, "The Great American Fraud" From 1891 to 1900, he was a reporter for the New York Sun where his career began, and then joined McClure's Magazine , where he gained a reputation as a muckraker for his ...
This was the result of decades of campaigning by both government departments and the medical establishment, supported by a number of publishers and journalists (one of the most effective was Samuel Hopkins Adams, who wrote "The Great American Fraud" series in Collier's in 1905). [29]
Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871–1958) – The Great American Fraud (1905), exposed false claims about patent medicines. Paul Y. Anderson (August 29, 1893 – December 6, 1938) is best known for his reporting of a race riot and the Teapot Dome scandal. Ray Stannard Baker (1870–1946) – of McClure's & The American Magazine.
In a series of eleven articles the journalist Samuel Hopkins Adams wrote for Collier's in 1905, titled "The Great American Fraud", he exposed many of the false claims made about patent medicines, pointing out that in some cases, these medicines were damaging the health of the people using them. On October 20, 1906, Adams published an article ...
It took 27 years to adopt the 1906 statute, during which time the public was made aware of many problems with foods and drugs in the U.S. Muckraking journalists, such as Samuel Hopkins Adams, targeted the patent medicine industry with its high-alcoholic content patent medicines, soothing syrups for infants with opium derivatives, and "red ...
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Billionaire brothers Samuel Wyly (pictured) and Charles Wyly were charged Thursday by the Securities & Exchange Commission with orchestrating a 13-year-long securities fraud that reaped them $550 ...
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