Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1888 — Started with Five Cents. [ARTICLE]

Started with Five Cents.

Rosa Wise, a young girl of Meridan, Miss., had 5 cents given to her as a joke for a birthday present. She bought a yard of calico with it and made a sunbonnet, which she sold for 40 cents. This she invested in more calico, made it up, sold the garments, and reinvested the capital until she had 10. With this she bought potatoes, planted them, paid lor the cultivation of her crop, for gathering and carting to town, ano made SSO clean profit.