Middlemen drain labor and raise prices, says reform piece
A 1886 critique argues non producers and middlemen inflate costs, harming labor wages. It cites wholesale to retail markups on knives, pianos, organs, and groceries, plus adulteration and overpricing in fabrics and drugs, urging action to reduce middleman power and restore fair pricing.
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World's Dispensary Medical Association Ad in Buffalo
A Buffalo based medical group advertises a large staff of eighteen physicians offering treatment for chronic diseases with cures claimed for nasal and lung conditions liver kidney digestive and female diseases and many others. The notice offers an Invalicts' Guide-Book for ten cents and notes cures occur at patients homes via correspondence with a strong final quip about two women crossing a street before a horse car.
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