Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1891 — An Interesting Experiment. [ARTICLE]

An Interesting Experiment.

Some time ago, the ladies of an aid society agreed to invest a nickel in some kind and sell it at a profit and reinvest in something else, and so on, to speculate on this capital for two weeks and see how much one could make. One lady on the same evening of the meeting bought a cabbage with her nickel. She carried it home and sold half of it to her neighbor for a nickel. She invested that in vinegar and pickled the remaining half for twenty-five cents. She then bought twenty cents’ worth of cloth and a spool of thread and made it up into aprons, which she sold for twenty-five cents each, and took the seventy-five cents and bought molasses and gave a candy pulling to the children, making them pay ten cents 4 plate for the candy, so she made two dollars and ten cenW on one nickel in two weeks’ time. Money is bound to increase if properly Handled.