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‘Ibt RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1922 
Perhaps The TL N.-Y. will he inter¬ 
ested In know about the enclosed propo¬ 
sition of Interstate Pi sea l Corporation. 
Buffalo. X. Y. I lmve no interest in it. 
except whatever action you may take to 
protect fanners from the scheme. 
New York. A. I.. T« 
The Interstate Fiscal Corporation is 
offering preferred stock of Roman Metal 
Corporation at par with a bonus of 200 
per cent common slock. The supply of 
common stock seems to be liberal. Pro¬ 
moters can afford to appear liberal with 
stock which lias no value. The promoters 
are also offering to pay to any one 
sending a name of any one who will bvy 
stock on the above basis. In other words, 
you can earn $5 for each person who 
hires on the investment from the sucker 
list yon send. Leave such propositions 
alone! 
A few months ago I answered an ad¬ 
vertisement of the italic Automobile and 
Tractor School of Cincinnati. <>.. olVer- 
iug it complete practical automobile and 
tractor course for 8125 tuition. I re¬ 
ceived a well-polished and nice-pictured 
catalog, and then went to Cincinnati to 
take the course. I never was stung and 
buncoed out of my money so easily be¬ 
fore in *my life. They don't own a car 
to their name, unless they have bought 
one since I left there, and the equipment 
they have no one can get very much out 
of. The school has a had name, and no 
one will hire you if they know yon come 
from that place, around Cincinnati. They 
are very slick articles there. They ofl'er 
a week's trial, autl. if at the end of that 
time you are not satis lied they will re¬ 
turn your money. I tried that, took toy 
week's trial, and they refused to give me 
my money hack. I was pretty sore, and 
was about to go to a lawyer, but my 
money was gone. I tried to get what I 
could out of it. hut it was very expensive 
to waste time and more money, so I left 
disgusted, the same as many others. The 
last few weeks I was there 1 tried to get 
tractor training, (but no one was willing 
to take me and instruct. They kept stall¬ 
ing me off every day for over two weeks, 
until I gave it up and left, out over $250. 
what it cost me to live and the tuition 
of the school. it. s. m. 
Massachusetts. 
This story front a student of this school 
speaks for itself. The school appears to 
be no longer under the management of 
the Rnhe Auto and Tractor School of 
Kansas City. This school has been criti¬ 
cized before for the deceptive practices 
in securing students, and it is only logical 
that an institution which deliberately de¬ 
ceives prospective students into signing 
contracts for the course of instruction 
would treat the student after he arrives 
at the school in the manner described by 
H. S. 31. 
Someone in my town sent in my name 
to he an agent of the Lancaster Seed 
Company. Paradise. Pa. I ordered some 
seeds with an understanding 1 was to 
get a premium for selling them, I tried 
to sell them, hut nobody wanted to take 
any. They never heard of those seeds 
before, so I sent them hack a month later, 
Now the firm has been writing me many 
times about the money. It worries me 
a little. I am only a child, 12 years old. 
and would not like to have my name 
ruined through this kind of people. < . 
New York. 
For ourselves, we think the people in 
the neighborhood were wise in not pur¬ 
chasing seeds that are sold in this way. 
Since the hoy has returned the seeds, lie 
is under no further obligation to the 
Lancaster County Seed Company. With 
the letter to the boy demanding payment 
the company sends what Is supposed to 
he n reprint from a Kcjftueky paper with 
an illustration showing a man behind 
prison bars for fraudulent use of the 
mails in connection with orders received 
from the Lancaster County Seed Com¬ 
pany of Paradise. Pa. This is. of course, 
well intended to flighten children into 
sending money to the company, whether 
it is duo them or not. 
The company also threatens to turn 
the ease over to- the sheriff of the county 
in which the hoy resides. These metbfds 
speak for themselves, and offer another 
very good reason why children should not 
he allowed to attempt to sell premium 
seeds, and it is never safe for farmers to 
purchase such seeds. 
The firm of J. F. McGovern of Phila¬ 
delphia and New York are, as the en¬ 
closed circulars state, offering stock in 
this concern, known as the Paramount 
Rubber Consolidated. Inc. This circular 
is undoubtedly mailed to a large number 
of rural folk in this State and perhaps 
September 2::, 
Electric Light and Power Plant 
Trv This Concrete MixeiO 30 
XWIK-MlX 
mm HEALTHFUL HOME HEATING 
a—K lV.VA The Wonderful NEW IDEA Pipe less Fu mace 
further away. Then, by the following 
mail. I receive (he ‘'warning.” also en¬ 
closed. informing me that the McGovern 
firm has no authority to offer this stock 
for sale. Indeed, that the stock of this 
company is not on (he market at all. It 
is more than possible that the circulars 
may reach the hands of some who will 
never receive the ■warning," and so may, 
by the attractive wording of the circulars 
issued by the McGovern people, send 
some money in purchase of or on account 
of some -.lock, and then afterwards he 
disappointed, j. it. if. 
New Jersey. 
Regardless of the apparent controversy 
between McGovern A Company and the 
Paramount Rubber Consolidated, our ad¬ 
vice to the public would be to disregard 
the stock offer entirely. In this course 
lies safety. 
HOME 
CAMP 
WORKSHOP 
CHURCH 
BOAT 
HEN HOUSE 
Enclosed is an advertisement taken 
from the Jewett City /'/’<•..•, of August 17. 
Evidently these people got wise in time. 
I got stuck on some house paint three or 
four years ago. They replaced the 
paint, hut that does not make it right, 
'file labor and looks of tile house are still 
a los--. 1 shall have to paint rhe house 
again a great deal quicker than I would 
if the paint had been as it should he. I 
refer to the Progress Paint Company. 
As I have seen inquiries about this linn 
in Tin: R. N.-Y. I thought it miglil in¬ 
terest yoy. A. N . ft. 
Connect icut. 
The X. Y-. X. II. & Hartford Railroad 
Company advertise for sale 3^6 barrels 
roofing paint shipped h.v Progress Paint 
Company. Cleveland. <>.. and three bar¬ 
rels shipped by Electric Paint and Var¬ 
nish Company of same place, refused by 
consignees. The incident speaks for 
itself. 
MANUFACTURED liY 
The Simms Magneto Company 
EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY 
Smith-Meeker Engineering Co. 
123 Liberty Street, New York City 
Distributors for Eastern blew York. New Jersey 
and W/estem Connecticut 
Walter H.Moreton Corp. 
780 Commonwealth Ave., Boston 
Dutntatiors for New ErtgLird 
except Western Connecticut 
HOMELITE 
Ample current for 20 or more 20-watt lamps direct from plant 
and 35 or more from battery with plant running. Sufficient for 
cooking, ironing, milking, churning, etc. Power for any purpose 
up toyk-h.p. Portable weight without batteries, 100 pounds. 
CAN BE PLACED ANYWHERE 
PRICE 
12-volt without batteries - - $174 
12-volt with batteries - - - 225 
32-volt without batteries - - 178 
32-volt with batteries - - - 245 
Also made in 110 volt. 
LIBERAL PROPOSITION FOR DEALERS 
I have been solicited to take shares in 
Federated Engineers' Development Cor¬ 
poration, Jersey City. X. J. They make 
everything look bright with big promises. 
1 write you knowing you give advice in 
such 11101101 * 8 . * c, u. o. 
New York. 
It is the stock in trade of stock sales¬ 
men to make their proposition look rosy. 
As a rule, these silver-tongued orators can 
paint rainbows with words and without 
special information one is at a loss t > 
refute their arguments, lint stocks sold 
in this way rarely have any real value. 
The usual plea is that the stock will earn 
big dividends in the future, and those 
getting in on the ground floor will become 
rich. Such stocks are only dangerous 
speculations, and in 90 eases out of Kin 
those who put their money into such pros¬ 
pects lose it. 
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More than $3,625,000 was subscribed 
to non-convertible notes of the Palos 
Vmlcs project at a mass meeting of con¬ 
vertible noteholders at Trinity Auditor¬ 
ium last night. 
This sum was subscribed in less than 
two hours. The impetus given at this 
meeting is expected to hurry the com¬ 
plete financing of this great project, the 
total of which will ultimately he So5,- 
000,000. 
Before the sale of convertible notes 
was closed, a lew weeks ago. they totaled 
more than $1.7.000.000. thus assuring the 
success nf the project which, according 
to the terms of its trusteeship, could not 
be accomplished without initial subscrip¬ 
tions of that amount. 
In a talk delivered by E. G. Lewis, 
manager of Palos Verdes Estates, he ex¬ 
plained that in order to keep a few large 
financial concerns front gaining control 
of rhe projeet, which involves 10,000 
acres on the Palos Verdes Hills, lying 
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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th St., New York 
There have been 40.310 acres of new 
vineyards planted in California, exclusive 
of the Imperial Valley, since January 1. 
according to a partial report which'has 
just been completed by F. C. Goodwin, 
manager of the crop contract depart incut 
of the Sun Maid Raisin Growers. The 
grand total of all varieties included in the 
report, which is not complete, shows • 
400.149 acres of vineyards in the State. j 
When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you'll get a 
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