History for 232 years carries an enormous amount of change and accomplishments. Palmyra — from 1789 to 2023 — is a perfect example. It includes inventors, innovators and visionaries. They
As part of related research into consumer protection, I recently scanned in a copy of Samuel Hopkins Adams' seminal articles on the patent medicine industry. These articles, which appeared in Collier's magazine starting in 1905, helped build the record for the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act, and for amendments to that law in 1912.