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The Major Part Of Him

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
January
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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A Napoleon of flnance picked out a promising town in Iowa and decided to "builditup." He moved to the town, organized a number of stock companies, started a bank, deposited all the money of the companies in hia own bank, and then went into bankuptoy. Some of the principal suferers went to learn whether anything ould be saved from the wreek. ïhey ound him in a magnifieent apartment. 'I regret very much, gentlemen," aid he, "bvjt, I have practically nothng left. My wife owns this house and ome business property, but I have nothing. Believe me, if I could do uoh a thing, I would give you my jodv and let it be divided up among ou, for there is else I can do." "What's that proposition?" asked a rathcr deaf old gentleman, who was at the back of the mournful company. "He says," exilained one of the sufferers, "that we can take his body and divide it up among us." "Well, in that case," said the deaf old gentleman, "I speak for his

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register