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...Chicago last week the Factor case was still in a stage too early to be conclusive. The only swindled English people whose names came out were a Rev. & Mrs. Arthur Travers Faber, he the rector at Hurworth-on-Tees, Durham. This rural English couple managed to lose $55,-ooo, so they claim, in stockjobbing operations conducted by Jake the Barber in London. One job was selling stock in the so-called "Glass Casket Company," a speculation peculiarly appealing to the British investor. Another time Mr. Factor was about to mail out some 300,000 glowing descriptions of a platinum mine...
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