Scope and Contents From the Series: Contains 8 folders of material pertaining to the "drumming evil" in Hot Springs, the practice, occurring in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, of victimizing incoming visitors by directing them to certain physicians, bath houses, hotels, or boarding houses. Consists largely of ordinances, dated 1891 ... 1907, concerning the city's efforts to license and regulate, and eventually prohibit, drumming to the above-mentioned institutions and individuals, as well as to suppress...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Contains 8 folders of material pertaining to the "drumming evil" in Hot Springs, the practice, occurring in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, of victimizing incoming visitors by directing them to certain physicians, bath houses, hotels, or boarding houses. Consists largely of ordinances, dated 1891 ... 1907, concerning the city's efforts to license and regulate, and eventually prohibit, drumming to the above-mentioned institutions and individuals, as well as to suppress...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Contains 8 folders of material pertaining to the "drumming evil" in Hot Springs, the practice, occurring in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, of victimizing incoming visitors by directing them to certain physicians, bath houses, hotels, or boarding houses. Consists largely of ordinances, dated 1891 ... 1907, concerning the city's efforts to license and regulate, and eventually prohibit, drumming to the above-mentioned institutions and individuals, as well as to suppress...