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Updated: April 30, 2025

"Cut out this Consumers' League slush and I'll get the stores back." "We'll cut out nothing. But we'll put in something. We'll print news of the department stores as news, not as advertising." "Well, if that ain't the limit!" lamented Shearson. "If you give 'em advertising matter free, how can you ever expect 'em to pay for it?" "We're not giving it to the stores. We're giving it to our readers."

Samuel Hopkins Adams - The Clarion