Dudley LeBlanc, the Hadacol Huckster
secondary literature · 2018
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SUMMARY
A history article on Dudley LeBlanc and Hadacol published by HistoryNet, byline "by Peter Carlson" (visible on the page; the page's <meta name="author"> CMS field separately reads "Nancy Tappan", but the displayed byline and repeated "more by Peter Carlson" credit is used here per the byline-over-meta-tag rule). Fetched directly via raw HTML (curl, HTTP 200, 149,530 bytes) and independently confirmed against the stripped plain text, so every verbatim quotation drawn from it is byte-verified, not summarizer-paraphrased. og:title and <title> both read "Dudley LeBlanc, the Hadacol Huckster"; article:published_time meta = 2018-02-09T13:00:03+00:00; article:modified_time meta = 2019-02-12T22:19:33+00:00, matching the visible "2/9/2018" / "2/12/2019" byline dates. Reports LeBlanc's 1924 election to the Louisiana House of Representatives, his 1940 election to the state senate, his old-age-pension law, Earl Long's "you can only rent him" remark, the barn/wine-barrel mixing story, the ~12% alcohol content described as a "preservative," testimonial claims of cures for arthritis, cancer, and beriberi, retail pricing ($1.25/8oz, $3.50/24oz), 1949 sales of $2.5 million, the FTC's deceptive-sales-practices investigation, the 1951 sale and the buyers' discovery of $2.2 million in supplier debt and $650,000+ in unpaid federal taxes leading to bankruptcy, LeBlanc's seventh-place finish in the 1952 Louisiana gubernatorial primary, his 1957 tax-evasion charge (which he beat), and his unsuccessful attempt to sell a near-identical tonic, Kary-On, afterward.
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This HistoryNet article, byline Peter Carlson, is the case’s most thoroughly verified secondary source: it was fetched as raw HTML rather than through a summarizing tool, and every verbatim quotation used in the case body was independently confirmed present in that raw fetched text (see the case’s grounding log verify-quotes block). It supplies the case’s colorful narrative detail (the barn, the oars, the “rent him” quote) as well as figures corroborating the 64 Parishes and Time accounts of the 1951 collapse, and it is the sole source in this bundle for LeBlanc’s 1957 tax-evasion charge and his post-Hadacol “Kary-On” tonic.