Average Jones: Stories of the Advertising Columns
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by James McNeill Whistler, John Sloan and James 'Clock' Shaw. Adrian Van Reypen Egerton Jones — Average Jones — investigates advertising: the fraudulent notice, the coded personal column, the patent medicine that kills. Adams was one of the muckrakers Roosevelt named, and his 1905 series The Great American Fraud exposed the patent-medicine trade and helped force the Pure Food and Drug Act through Congress. The cases here are that reporting, turned into detection. Fifty-nine plates by John Sloan and Everett Shinn, among others, capture the rathskeller, the revue and the gambling house, the city crowds these advertising cases move through.
Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by James McNeill Whistler, John Sloan and James 'Clock' Shaw. Adrian Van Reypen Egerton Jones — Average Jones — investigates advertising: the fraudulent notice, the coded personal column, the patent medicine that kills. Adams was one of the muckra...
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Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871–1958) was an American journalist and author. He worked as an investigative reporter for the New York Sun and other publications before creating the detective Average Jones, whose cases were collected in the 1911 volume Average Jones.
Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871–1958) was an American journalist and author. He worked as an investigative reporter for the New York Sun and other publications before creating the detective Average Jones, whose cases were collected in the 1911 volume Average Jones.
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