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A Swindle

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
March
Year
1872
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Swindlors are now perambulating tho country representiug thcmsul'-'i-i na patent right vendors, ml operat'ng in tho following marnier, as giveu by thü Tiiïin, (Ohio) tribune : " The patent right vendor goes into a noghborhood and upproaches ft ei' ig him that lio has a patent right to Bell, ;tiid wisluM lii Msistance in Belling it to a nuighbor. Ho proposes to the (i ;■■-! .man lic apyirOachos, whoin we will cali A., to tako Eis note ftw fl,250 for a oertain amount of territory. ïhis note lio says he will show to the neighbor - H. we will cali him - who by Beeing that A. bas confidenco in tho patont will also he inducod tobny. When the note is Becured of H., it is to bo sold, ani tho proceeds are to be divided betweon the patent right vender and tho latter is to havo bis note back. If successful in getting A 's noto, the patent riglit man goes to H. and proposes exactly tho game thing. It ie gets H.'b noto ako, neifhei A. nor II. soos hiin as he woes and disposes of oach ono's pioce of paper, and pookots the proleeds. Tho work on the Sault St. Mario canal s progressing as well as tho weathor will jennit. The severo cold weather has perated very iniieli ngtiiiist tho work. So severo was the cold in tho early part ►f winter that the toking Aovrn ot' the oM uard look had to he suspended, as tinwhole tliing was frozen into ono eolid uass, and to tuke it down would havo requirod the destruction of every stone n it. The February number of the Printers' Circular sof ppecial lüterest to the craf and the matter on some of its pages wiü bear close ntüdylug. K S. Menauin, oJitor and pubüshcr, Philadclphia.

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Old News
Michigan Argus