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Rotten Potatoes cash gifts lure wary readers
A sensational letter warns readers about a bogus $955,000 Mercantile Prize Association cash gift scheme linked to New York. The note recounts Master Isaac Brace's failed tickets and money return promises, with multiple readers reporting lost prizes, fake agents, and missing goods as suspicious letters shift between unnamed Professors and Amos & Cline.
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Mercantile Prize Association of New York
Rinorr
Sirs
Mercantile Prize Association
New York
New York Herald
Weekly Tribune
Isaac Brace
Brown
West Line
Ridott
Stephenson County
Illinois
Master Brace
Black Gully
Express