. . . contracted with nearly all the Iowa papers for the
advertisement of a quack horse medicine.
He never paid one of them a cent and never meant to from the first. But about half of these papers, thus swindled,
keep Sloan’s advertisements still running in their columns, thus discrediting their
own papers, cheating those who do pay and holding out inducements to the public
to swindle them.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 2
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