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In 1932, Sanborn spent nearly eleven months in a sanitarium following a long illness. He partly regained his health, though there was a gradual failing and was confined to his home most of the time. Two years later, he committed suicide by gunshot in the garden of his home. He was taken to the
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universities had selected the city of
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Billboard advertising
Sanborn's column at Chicago's
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163:Early life
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