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Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871–1958)

Auteur van The Pony Express

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Samuel Hopkins Adams was born on January 26, 1871 in Dunkirk, N.Y. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1891. He was a reporter for the New York Sun and McClure's Magazine where his articles focused on the the conditions of public health in the United States. He also wrote a series of eleven toon meer articles in Collier's Weekly exposing patent medicines and accusing their producers of making false claims and in some cases, damaging the health of their users. These articles were a huge influence on the passage of the first Pure Food and Drugs Act. He not only wrote for magazines, he also wrote fiction and nonfiction. His most popular novel, Revelry was based on the scandals of the Harding administration. His other titles include The Harvey Girls, The Grandfather Stories, and Tenderloin. Adams died Nov. 15, 1958 in Beaufort, South Carolina. (Bowker Author Biography) Samuel Hopkins Adams was born 26 January 1871 in Dunkirk, New York. Adams graduated from Hamilton College in 1891 and was with the New York Sun until 1900. From 1901 to 1905 he was associated in various editorial and advertising capacities with McClure's syndicate and McClure's Magazine, and it was there the he earned a reputation as a muckracker for his articles on the conditions of public health in the United States. Adams also wrote a series of eleven articles for Collier's Weekly, entitled The Great American Fraud in which he exposed patent medicines; these pieces were credited with influencing the passage of the first Pure Food and Drugs Act in 1906. In 1911 the Supreme Court ruled that the prohibition of falsifications referred only to the ingredients of the medicine, meaning that companies could still make false claims about their products. Adams rebuttled this in articles in Collier's Weekly such as Fraud Medicines Own Up (20th January), Tricks of the Trade (17th February, 1912), The Law, the Label, and the Liars (13th April, 1912) and Fraud Above the Law (11th May, 1912), He exposed the misleading advertising that companies were using to sell their products. Adams was an American journalist and author of more than 50 books of fiction, biography, and exposé. He was also known as Warner Fabian, and as a prolific writer, produced both fiction and nonfiction. His best-known novel, Revelry (1926), based on the scandals of the Harding administration, was later followed by Incredible Era (1939), a biography of Harding and his times. Among his other works are The Great American Fraud (1906), The Harvey Girls (1942), Grandfather Stories (1955), and Tenderloin (1959). Samuel Hopkins Adams died 15 November 1958 in Beaufort, South Carolina. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: From "How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science" (Fisher & Fisk, 1916)
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Werken van Samuel Hopkins Adams

The Pony Express (1950) 461 exemplaren
The Santa Fe Trail (1951) 336 exemplaren
It Happened One Night [1934 film] (1934) — Original story — 210 exemplaren
General Brock and Niagara Falls (1957) 106 exemplaren
Grandfather Stories (1955) 68 exemplaren
Average Jones (1911) 53 exemplaren
Banner by the Wayside (1942) 51 exemplaren
Canal Town (1944) 46 exemplaren
The Harvey Girls [1946 film] (1946) — Original book — 40 exemplaren
Sunrise to Sunset (1950) 29 exemplaren
The Harvey Girls (1942) 24 exemplaren
The Mystery (1907) 17 exemplaren
The Secret of Lonesome Cove (2011) 16 exemplaren
The Flying Death (1908) 16 exemplaren
The Clarion (1914) 15 exemplaren
Chingo Smith of the Erie Canal (1958) 14 exemplaren
Wagons to the Wilderness (1954) 14 exemplaren
Revelry (1926) 12 exemplaren
The Unspeakable Perk (1916) 12 exemplaren
Success: A Novel (1921) 8 exemplaren
From a Bench in Our Square (1922) 8 exemplaren
Flaming Youth (1923) 8 exemplaren
Tenderloin (1959) 8 exemplaren
The Gorgeous Hussy (1934) 7 exemplaren
Our Square And The People In It (2013) 7 exemplaren
Wanted, A Husband (1920) 5 exemplaren
Summer bachelors (1926) 4 exemplaren
SAILORS' WIVES. (1924) 4 exemplaren
Night Bus (1933) 4 exemplaren
Unforbidden Fruit. 4 exemplaren
The world goes smash 3 exemplaren
Siege (1924) 3 exemplaren
The President's Mystery Story (1935) — Auteur — 3 exemplaren
The Men In Her Life 2 exemplaren
Tambay gold 2 exemplaren
The piper's fee 2 exemplaren
Maiden effort, 2 exemplaren
Common Cause (2017) 2 exemplaren
Der Pony Express 1 exemplaar
B. Jones, Butcher (1906) 1 exemplaar
Plunder : a novel 1 exemplaar
The health master, 1 exemplaar
Widow's oats 1 exemplaar
Perfect Specimen 1 exemplaar
Week-end girl 1 exemplaar
Whispers 1 exemplaar
The Godlike Daniel 1 exemplaar

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Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Fabian, Warner
Geboortedatum
1871-01-26
Overlijdensdatum
1958-11-15
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Dunkirk, New York, USA
Plaats van overlijden
Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
Woonplaatsen
Dunkirk, New York, USA
Auburn, New York, USA
Opleiding
Hamilton College
Beroepen
journalist
novelist
screenplay writer
Organisaties
New York Sun
McClure's
Collier's

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Pleasant while reading but not necessarily memorable.
A young American woman is running away from her family because she refuses to marry the man her father has picked out. She boards a ship for England and meets up with a young man after she accidentally stomps on his foot. She looks awful because she's been crying and upset. He helps her avoid pursuit and be able to stay on the ship unnoticed. Later she hears him telling a friend about her, describing her in very unflattering language and calling her "Little Miss Grouch." She's actually very pretty when she's not crying, as becomes obvious the next morning, when the young man falls in love with her (he's always called The Tyro, for some reason, although his name is actually Alexander).
Interfering acquaintances inform her father that this young man is hanging around the girl, and the captain is given authority to lock her in her room if The Tyro says one more word to her.
What follows is the story of how he tries to avoid her, and how she plays cat-and-mouse with him, and they generally both try to pretend that they don't care too much about each other. (Which manifestly isn't true.)
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Alishadt | 1 andere bespreking | Feb 25, 2023 |
Something great was being made. Right in the center of New York. A great thing it was going to be, yes, the Erie Canale
was being made! From the beginning some how people knew that soon something great was going to enter into the world
of New York. Wood was plentiful there and game was hunted down all the time. Great fish were also plentiful, Sturgeons
lived in comfort in lake Ontario and bass and other fish would live there year long. Every body knew this Canal would cost
money, but no one cared the least, they wanted to have a Canal so they could sell there plentiful game. This book is
amazing and you will surely want to read it over again.
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largeroomlibrary | 2 andere besprekingen | Nov 11, 2022 |
Interesting angle to the consulting detective format.

Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
 
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fernandie | 1 andere bespreking | Sep 15, 2022 |
Written the early 1907, this is a maritime mystery along the style of Jules Verne in writing and subject.

The Laughing Lass, an abandoned schooner, is found off the coast of a volcanic island in the South Pacific, by the U.S. cruiser Wolverine. There is no one aboard the ship, so the Wolverine’s captain puts a crew on board with the idea of bringing it back. The following day, that crew is missing.

The naval crew find a skiff with a survivor barely alive. He is brought aboard and the tale of the ship, its missing crew and all that happens is told by the survivor.

The tale is about the man who hired the ship for its mysterious voyage, the Laughing Lass crew of cutthroats and the fantastical happenings during the long months spent on the island. It is a tall tale that is told.

The style is verbose and liberally sprinkled with nautical terms. Someone up on old sailing vessels or has read books of this topic/style will understand them.

I did enjoy it and felt I had to finish it. Sometimes reading books from another era, on subjects I don’t normally read about, can make the little grey cells work a bit more.
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ChazziFrazz | May 3, 2020 |

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