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An advice column is a column in a question and answer format. Usually, a reader writes to the media outlet with a problem in the form of a question. The media outlet gives an answer or response. The responses are written by an advice columnist. An advice columnist is someone who gives advice to people who send in problems to the media outlet.

The Athenian Mercury had the first known advice column in 1690.

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  • Ask Dr. Goff, State 1990-03- Iss 331 (IA sim state-magazine 1990-03 331) (page 20 crop)

    The March 1990 edition of "Ask Dr. Goff", a medical advice column published in State Magazine

  • Dorothy Dix - All Marriage is a Leap Into the Dark, 1913

    Dix column, 1913

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