Promotion stock sales here cost buyers 1.5 million
Bridgeport reports promotion stock schemes era linked to 21 offices since May 1921. About 22 percent of 2,000 local business people were approached with offers costing 850 to 3500 dollars. Protective Association blocked seven oil and five mining outfits and warned citizens to consult banks or brokers before buying, as promoters from New York targeted widows.
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Mer. Osborne
Bridgeport
Balea
Osborne
Bridgeporters
Bridgepbrt
Protective Association
State Banking Commission
New York
Bankers and Merchants Protective Association
Bankers of Brokers
Funds for German loan held up for reparation probe
Subscriptions in America to the 80,000,000 Internal German loan are being held by Farson Son & Co pending investigation by the commission on reparation. Drafts are held by the New York house and would be returned if authority for pledging the Reichsbank gold reserve is lacking. Berlin announcement expected tomorrow on subscription totals.
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America
Farson Son & Co
Commission On Reparation
New York Investment House
Reichsbank
New York
Berlin
Rats and Sparrows Down in Statewide Campaign
Eleven thousand sparrow heads and 300 rat tolls were counted in Springfield township in Lagrange County as farmers fought birds and rodents. A Greenfield township contest killed thousands of sparrows and hundreds of rats. From the Delicious apple trees the number of offspring tops 7,490,000 with a projected annual crop value of about $12,000,000.
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Howe. Ind
Springfield Township
Lagrange County
Greenfield Township
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Noble
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Chandler Motor Car Company
Cleveland
U.S
FISE
Goodrich
Noble 2165
United States
FISK
Victor
Sterling
United Cycle Co., Inc
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Detroit
Seattle
Henry 8. Osborne
Business Men's Association
Bankers and Merchants, Protective Association
Chamber of Commerce
Bridgeport Business Men's Association
Bankers and Brokers
Ne York
Audit Bureau of Circulations
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