Samuel Hopkins Adams
Work
Samuel Hopkins Adams' ten-part exposé of the patent medicine industry, "The Great American Fraud," begins in Collier's.
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Samuel Hopkins Adams was commissioned by Norman Hapgood of Collier's magazine to write a series of articles exposing the patent medicine business in 1906. 
; A consequence of the articles may very well have been the shutting down of Dr. Stace.
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Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871-1958), American muckraker and author best known for his investigative journalism wrote The Great American Fraud (1906).
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Samuel Hopkins Adams, a writer ('muckraker') for Collier's Weekly in the 1900s, to begin a campaign against the patent medicine makers, saying that:
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