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Sullivan was able
to do this undercover work very successfully and turned in his findings,
including the news about the “red clause” and press censorship, in a lengthy
article entitled “The patent medicine conspiracy against the freedom of the
press.” Curtis applauded Sullivan’s work but considered this article too
long and legalistic for his journal and offered it to Norman Hapgood, the
scholarly editor of Collier’s, The National Weekly. Hapgood published
Sullivan’s reforming editorial in November 1905 in Collier’s, which now
became the leading popular journal decrying patent medicines to the American
public. Hapgood also hired a special reporter to fully expose the nostrum
industry to the public, Samuel Hopkins Adams. |