Samuel Hopkins Adams

Graduated from Hamilton College in 1891, and then worked at the <cite>New York Sun</cite> until 1900. Worked at <cite>McClure's Magazine</cite> from 1901 through 1905. His <cite>The Great American Fraud</cite>, which expanded on his magazine articles exposing fraudulent patent medicines, helped the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. In 1915, he began a similar pursuit of advertising practices in the <cite>New York Tribune</cite>.

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