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Show THE WORKING OF THE LEAVEN Under the title, "Medicine Man Quits With ?1,000,000," the Brazil (Ind.) News for August 5 prints an interesting news item. Here it Js: "Kokomo, August 25. The Cora B. Miller Medicine Med-icine company, known over the country because of its extensive magazine advertisements of a cure for te complaints of women, today dis-charge.1 dis-charge.1 small army of stenographers and other e yees and then closed .its doors to business, lhe closing came as the result of a fraud order issued recently by the postofflce department, de-partment, which denied tho use of tne mails to the circular advertising matter of the company. "According to Dr. Frank Miller, who started the business twenty-five years ago, when he was practically penniless, the company will never again do business. Miller is now worth from $900,000 to ?1.000,000. "For the first twenty years of the 'business, there was no interruption, aud tho money poured into the coffers of the company from women of the country. Four years ago, however, the government gov-ernment took exception to the use of the name Cora B. Miller in connection with the advertising, inasmuch as Mrs. Miller had no connection with the company, and the firm was forced to change names. "The change marked a turning point in the affairs of the company, and when recently the government brought a fraud order against the company, Miller decided to quit the business. Miller is the largest holder of real estate in Kokomo." The Cora B. Miller fraud was exposed in The Journal of the American Medicial association for July 23, 1910, and the matter reprinted and widely circulated in pamphlet form. The newspaper news-paper quoted above credits the failure of the Miller Mil-ler concern to the fact that the federal authorities author-ities caused it to change its name from "Mrs. Cora B. Miller" to "Miller Medicine Company." That this charge probably had something to do with the Gecline of the business is doubtless true. Another agency, however, has been at work and tended to make the Miller fraud less profitable. A good many thousand reprints of The Journal's expose have been circulated. The public generally, and especially the feminine part of it, has been wholesomely awakened to the wretched swindles that have been, add still are, perpetrated on it 'by "patent medicine" fakers. fak-ers. The American Medical association, therefore, there-fore, may certainly take some of the credit for bringing about the consummation that resulted in Miller retiring from his fraudulent trade. And here we have one more explanation of tho fact that certain individuals froth at the mouth whenever when-ever the American Medical association and The Journal are mentioned. |