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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then on the very next page, backing up this article which implied continuing advertising ideals on the part of the Press, appeared a full page advertisement of one of the most notorious medical quacks in the U. S.-Dr. William Oakley Coffee of Davenport, Iowa...
Quack Coffee, now 67 years old, has been "practicing" for 44 years. The Keokuk (Iowa) College of Physicians & Surgeons gave him his diploma in 1881. He was licensed to practice medicine in 1897, 29 years ago. His first "game" was the curing of eye diseases by mail. At Des Moines, he built himself a $100,000 stone home with turrets, porte-cochère and all conveniences. This established business Samuel Hopkins Adams wrecked for him by the "Great American Fraud" articles in Collier's of 1905-07. Exposer Adams called Quack Coffee "an Eminent Thief and Pre-eminent...
Every Secretary of War is said to cherish a longing to visit his distant dominions, such as Porto Rico. But Governor Towner said nothing of the romance of tropic nights; clung tenaciously to statistical accuracy. When the Governor was a Congressman from Iowa he could fill his collar, and his cheeks were full. Now, after three years in Porto Rico, he is thin...
...bill to establish a "Summer White House" somewhere west of the Mississippi where the President can "breathe the air of the West," will be introduced by Representative Lester J. Dickinson, Republican, of Iowa...
...sophomore fullbacks, Schmidt and Bunn, scored four touchdowns, a pair apiece, and with some assistance from relays of their Iowa teammates rollicked over North Dakota...