Traps for the Trusting
Modern investment tricksters use phrases like guarantee and highest market value to lure small investors. The piece warns that guarantees are meaningless and market value relies on a real active market, not manipulated quotes. It cites wildcat schemes, notes brokers set prices, and urges investors to seek true financial strength rather than glossy promises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walton
Smith, Jones Or Brown
Rock of Gibraltar Guaranty Security Company
Samson
Philistines
Herges
Wildcat
Honor Bright Company
Joseph _ B. Bowles
Warn Women Against Fake Investments Warns Jane Addams
Jane Addams of Hull House Chicago warns wage earning women about fake investments. Promoters target women with claims of business insight and intuition while hiding schemes such as wireless stock consolidations and at home work scams. She urges caution and notes many victims are widows and invalids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Board of Education
Consolidated Company
Wooldridge
Jane Addams
Hull House
Diamonds Found In Place Searched Along Transcontinental Route
Since 1830 many American diamonds have been authenticated but none found in place. Most have appeared through rock decay washing diamonds into streams in South America and North America. Surveying parties along the Quebec to Winnipeg line seek the original resting place of these stones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Guiana
Brazil
South America
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Canada
Quebec
Winnipeg
Mexico's Vigorous President Climbs Rope at Chapultepec
At seventy years old President Diaz astonished American tourists by climbing a hanging rope at the military college in Chapultepec. He declared they could say they had seen a 70 year old man perform the feat. The tale appears in his biographer's account. Lobster beds planned in British Columbia aim to develop a large scale industry within four to five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Diaz
Chapultepec
British Columbia
Will Start Women's Clubs on Isthmus of Panama
Helen Virick Roswell is selected to organize a string of women's clubs on the Isthmus of Panama. The effort aims to provide cultural and social activities for expatriate and local women across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Virick Roswell
Isthmus
Panama
Cape Colony Mineyard develops into wine country
Cape Colony Mineyard expands into a wine region with 20,000 acres of vineyards and 60,000,000 vines under development.
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Cape. Colony
Cape Colony
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William Barret Ridgely
William B. Ridgely
South
Silue
Peters Shoe
St Louis
Peters’ Diamond Brand Shoes
the Academy
Little King
Vici
Hoosier Bargain Store
Reed & Batey
Will C
Edison
Columbia
Victor
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