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HINEVERY yit Cll WALUSGFOKD OV-FEKEii BY SWNDLEilS.HINTS FIHAD MACHINE TO BOTTLE OLDIroning Cabi Into $nSOL'S R\YS ASH MAKE EXE HOT.New York, Aug. 30.—Postal mspee-!tors arrested Elmer E, Burlingame, i* % 1who has sold stock in many concerns jichat have attracted the attention of jthe posioffice department, bis offense!- %at this particular time being]Iin connection with the Sue Electric j Generator company, the nr.deriving j principle of which was bottling snn-j shine. The man who claimed the credit for originating the idea, George H. Cove, also went to the Tombs with Burlingame, who directed theirThe Iowa manj ing cabinet berei an ordinary ironii Ironing board wii on which to tangcorps of about 700 selling agents ^ contrived thation.be folded up, Tt stands against t: portion Is a hi]throughout the middle west and south.V*The inspectors jhave found in their mail complaints against the sunshine i t^ard glides Into bottlers ever ain-ce last summer, when j j^0D anlt;j wnc a statement of one of the former «a* j oae end of the b ployers of the concern was printed j Qf jov?er partjlaia! Trin*£irk.pair of folding out and supports center of the iar ironing board pi' on which it can fc 63 above the m ] handily for Its aand :yes- •the ceiling and v of sticks there.little! are:Iaona iKy.. |Mrs.. 1ieile-Guy!^nied! fcani,!rtion. itelling that the machines which were In successful operation at the company’s offices derived their electricity from the Edison company's wire rather than from any merit of their own.The specific complaint on which the two men were arrested is that j *aja0 ^ p. they were using the mails to defraud j ^g cabjnet so ^ in soliciting a stock subscription from ^A. D. Teasley of Concordia, Kan. in February,. 1910, this letter was sent.The stock?, for which the par value was set at $10, was sold at first, according to the letters that have come to the inspectors, at $4 or $5, and through the money obtained, ranged j up until it touched as high as $12. ^ hol6a ^ 0£Sky Must Be Clear. ter Tben put ^Accompanying pie soliciting letters swelled corn, cwas much literature that told about uatil the hithe ease with which yon could let sunshine do your work. The company airead had demonstrating plants ^ bour, by'taldh in New. York, Baltimore and New j throwing it into Orleans and In Austin, and it had onI ting it .with ydtii hand more orders than It .could fill-j or outside skin The only requirement was that the easily, it has be sky should he clear, so with the cir- the Jye. Now sta cnlars went the government weather com and pour tTo Hull CoTake one pint ashes, put themeasily. Ton will after boiling twlt;ii-ingibureau’s estimate of the number of cloudless days in various parts of the United States. Hence, the carts of the map in the southern middle west,i filer,this.tlingdfehpaa or tub water,. Take op tween the hands hulls. You will iwhere blue was the predominating several waters.color of the zenith, produced thelargest number of buyers. Stock to COj{| water, wMtfrom hulls put ior aseveral times wlrued i ■week 1I. D. jMrs. | p.eta,1 'Ster-6im- j this.!son rthe amount of $100,000 was sold. *Often the circulars explained that from the taste o! Niagara was doing a Jot of work, and j ^er When it if It appeared that the Bun too should: taste and cook f do Its share. The earnings were to | _be turned back into the development | Squabof the company, because this indus-1 Those jjj^g ar try was growing every day. There jancheon. They were pictures of the generators, looking very like glass compartments of the covering for hothouse grapes, only tilted up oa one side The company was capitalized, said the circular, for $5,000,000, all in common stock, and the charter of the company was such that no preferred stock or honds could be issued. The prospective buyers were told mat it was an Arizona corporation.which case they cleaned and the and skeweredbreast, or they seasoned with s and baked la a 1 a slice of fat salt to baste them wi ty minutes and squares of horn: browned delicate
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Lima Daily News

Lima, Ohio, US

Thu, Aug 10, 1911

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