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Electrical Fraud Prosecuted,The Post Office Department lias ^arrested the inventer and promoter of the.Sun Electric Generator Company on the charge that it has defrauded investors out oE sumo aggregating 3250,000 by inducing them to buy i stock in an invention having no commercial merit. The inventor is Mr. 1 George H. Cove, and his so-called .? invention is a thermoelectric battery, which it erected in a back yard or on the roof of a building, would, it is ^ -claimed, generate enough electricity 1 from the suns rays in one day to last .■ a .household from one to two weeks, ■j An installation set up on the roof of ’j J .a building in Maiden Dane, New York ;j \ -City,.from which incandescent lamps | ' were supplied, was found to he con-? mected by concealed wires with the | Edison service in the building. } Many inquiries regarding the scheme 1 have been received at this office, and it was -apparent that the promoters operated largely through a “sucker” v ^mailing list such as is used by other / electrical “fakes” still doing business,J, —Electrical World.: f
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Adams County Free Press
Corning, Iowa, US
Wed, Aug 30, 1911
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