The Fictitious Riches of a Banana Stock Swindle
A Greenport resident named John Rivers is lured by a Rio Vista Banana Company prospectus offering shares for ten dollars monthly with promised two percent returns. After losing two hundred seventy dollars when the scheme collapses as fictitious, the tale shifts to a broader critique of evolving swindles from green goods to high finance and the need for stronger punishment of false prospectuses.
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Long
Greenport
John Rivers
John
James W Snowden
Rio Vista Banana Company
New York
Campo
Brazil
Mr Snowden
Inland Seas Copper Mining Company of
St John
Jennie
Soebody
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promoted for Female Ailments
A testimonial from Mrs. Williams of Chicago endorses Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier as effective treatment for menstrual disorders, inflammation, ulcers, and nervous prostration. The letter claims cures and urges women to seek free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Taiammnation
Tors
Liz
Pinkham
William Amens
21St St
Chicago
Lydia E. Pinkham
L Mass
The Appetites of Kings in Recollections of M. Paoli
The king of Spain and other sovereigns are described as valiant trenchermen in McClure's recollections. Alfonso XIII reportedly starts his day with a rump steak and potatoes for breakfast, sometimes with eggs and often with salad and fruit, illustrating royal daily expenditure and appetites.
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Spain
Alfonso XIII
M. Paoli
McClure
Marriage as a game of chance and balance of power
A witty, satirical quip compares marriage to a fair but confusing game of chance. It notes the man leads early but follows his wife, and jokes that a wife’s appeal to diplomacy can trump a husband’s robbery in the rules of life, with wives granted more privileges than other outlaws.
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Walter 8
Mayer
Post Office
Federal
England
New York
Chicago
Premature Repentance
A sick man asks his wife for the whole truth before recovery. She reassures him the crisis has passed and the doctor is confident of his recovery. He then asks her to call his partner to foreclose a mortgage, admitting his prior words were said in a moment of mental distress.
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Miller
Broadway
McLean
Union Pacific
Pennsylvania
New York
Middle West
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Edwin W Sims
United States
Ilinois
Chicago
Sims
Change of Food Brings Health Improvements
A letter extols changing diet to improve stomach and nerves. A Missouri couple credits Postum and Grape-Nuts for restored health after coffee withdrawal and a period of weakness. The husband also reports better sleep and fewer cramps, and the writer cites a California brother using Postum.
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Postum
California
Pontum
Wellville
Ker
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Bailey Millard
Milwaukee
Dubuque
Kansas City
Iist
Bayonne
Frances Maclean
J B M Miller
Cincinnati
Baltimore
Boston
Rearcow Publishing Co
James
Exieni
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