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Tub Boston Ladies' Deposit Company, which paid eight per cent, a* month on all deposits made by unmarried women, and was run by a woman who had twice been prosecuted for swindling, baa at last suspended payment. Some of the dupes still believe that the concern really had, as the sharper asserted, a fund contributed by benevolent Quakers; and Gall Hamilton wrote a letter to the Advertiser in which she upbraids the editor for helping to break up the swindle. ‘I have at this moment,' she says, “two hundred dollars which I wish to investfor the beuefit of a Southern woman who Is trying to earn her daily bread. As you have done what In you lay to destroy the Ladies, Deposit, I shall be extremely gratified, and my Southern policy res* cued Iroin loss, If you will give mo your note oi band, or that of any legal and reoognUed financial or charitable body corporate In Boston, for the two hundred dollars, which 1 will In that case send you—a note of hand payable three years for date, and bearing interest mean while at eight per cent, a month This will keep the woif from one woman's door for three years, and by that time there is every reason to believe she will be able to fight him back herself.'
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Terre Haute Saturday Evening Ledger
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Sat, Oct 16, 1880
Page 2
Full Page
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