| Show AVOID QUACKS THIS subject is stale but so are a good many others which however it is frequently necessary to treat in advising the public to protect itself against imposition recent developments concerning an individual who made a liberal use of printers ink in this city a few weeks ago for the purpose of retting getting money from the gullible brings up the theme of quack doctors again the person referred to sails under the name of dr depowell powell reeves beeves any person of experience and discernment would have had all confidence in his pretensions as a physician destroyed gy by reading some of the circulars he sent broadcast throughout the city brazen Is a mild term with which to describe the assertions of skill and ability with which the circulars were replete while a portion of their con were almost obscene and unfit for general circulation the omaha bee in a recent issue 3 s speaks eaks of having published an expose of reeves beeves while he was holding forth in that city and says that he be intimated to a member of the bees staff that any sum of money the latter might name would be paid on condition of the withdrawal of the exposure reeves skipped and at last accounts had by the bee of him he had been preying upon the unsuspecting and unfortunate in denver and salt lake lake when he left omaha he failed to take down the signs at the place where he had had bad his office and they still loom up conspicuously in a manner calculated to draw the unwary into the den the latter is now occupied eitinier with or without collusion with reeves beeves by a brace of individuals whom the bee is exposing as frauds of the worst type tybe not only do they permit beeves signs to remain at their office but they allow his name to be attached attached to their advertisements according to the bee reeves beeves and the pair who have succeeded him have been so thoroughly exposed among the english s speaking people of that region that lettle or no p patronage is derived from that class but the two men who run the business in omaha are circulating their advertisements among the scandinavians of nebraska and neighboring states and are seemingly confining their operations mostly to that people they conduct their business mainly by letter and have inserted advertisements over reeves beeves name came with but three exceptions in every scandinavian paper from chicago to the pacific coast making the most wonderful promises to care any and every disease to these they haye have received hundreds of answers asking for advice tendering money and praying for immediate relief and core care to all of these letters answers are written in the scandinavian tongues and this fact induces the unfortunate to believe that they are dealing with a sym sympathizing P ath izing countryman who will readily aff afford ord them the relief they require so many people had bad complained of money sent in this way without receiving ceiling any benefit that the danish pl pi in Jm atia undertook to expose the shar pers an interpreter te ter rp preter reter under instructions from t hat paper succeeded in securing employment with the doctors the result was a striking exposure the frauds sent out to every patient the same sam prescription linseed oil and pills prom from a boolen broken bone to consumption all got the same reported the interpreter whether the pills were made of bread soap or some dangerous danger oas material is not stated our scandinavian friends who may be subscribers for some journal published east or west of utah in their own language ought to pay no attention to advertisements bearing the name of the party in question and they may betit set it down as a safe rule that when they require the services of a physician it is best to employ one whom they know this rule is un an excellent one for all classes of people to f ollow follow transients who come into the community and fail to show satisfactory references yet pretend tobe tol abe able to imre cure the sick and heal the afflicted should be avoided the louder their pretensions to skill and ability the more certain is i it that they are quacks and the wider should be the berth given them |
