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1871 - Born on the 26 of January in Dunkirk, New York.
1891 - He graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.
- He was a reporter for the New York Sun and then joined McClure's Magazine for nine years.
1905 - He wrote for Collier's Weekly "The Great American Fraud".
1906 - He exposed many of the false claims made about patent medicines, pointing out that in some cases
these medicines were damaging the health of the people using them.
1911 - He exposed the misleading advertising that companies were using to sell their products.
1920 - He wrote two novels, Flaming Youth and Unforbidden Fruit, dealing with the sexual urges of young
women in the Jazz Age.
- He published them under the pseudonym "Warner Fabian" so that his other works would not be tainted
by any scandal accruing to these novels.
1958 - He died on the 15th of November.
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