Identifier: saturdayeveningp1933unse (find matches)
Title: The Saturday evening post
Year: 1839 (1830s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Graham
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ch an enterprise wouldrun of clashing with the city or state au-thorities; there would be in the second placeanother risk of another clash with the con-stituted rules of the Curb exchange itself.But worse than this, the purely fraudulentpromoter would be in the ridiculous posi-tion of offering a customer something hedid not desire, thus destroying his businessand all the possibilities of its future devel-opment. By placing ourselves in his position wewill see very clearly the problem whichpresents itself to the promoter of or dealerin the cheap or the often wrongly so-calledfraudulent stock, which appears in suchquantities in the new national market forthis type of security—the New York Curb.Why, we will ask ourselves, should we orany man of any reason at all whatever putout a purely fraudulent stock, when whatour capital desires is a hundred-to-onechance, and when on the other hand a hostof hundred-to-one chances—in oil wells, (Concluded on Page 133) THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 131
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To use plumbing fixtures, constantly, withoutthought of the fixtures themselves is natural,especially if they render a fair degree of service. But whether this service is truly fair or poordepends upon comparison with the new standard attained in modern plumbing. Your Contracting Plumber will be glad to assistyou in making this comparison. Standard cSamtats Iftfe. Co., Pittsburgh

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