Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1911 — Was Mute Solicitor a Fraud! Looks Very Much Like It. [ARTICLE]

Was Mute Solicitor a Fraud! Looks Very Much Like It.

Several weeks ago a magazine solicitor who was either a mute or played the part for business results, visited Rensselaer and took a large number of subscriptions for magazines. principally for Alnsiee’s and The Popular Magazine. So far as can be learned none of those who subscribed have received a copy. He gave receipts signed by Chas. S. Moore and the blanks used had the name of the Wilson Subscription Agency, Hartford. < Conn., printed on them. One young man wrote to the agency asking that the magazines be started to him without delay or that his money be refunded. He sent the letter to Hartford and today It was returned, marked "No such agency re* ceives mail at this office." The young man had invested 13.25 and it begins to look like he and others had been stung. It is doubtful policy to patronize traveling solicitors unless they show proper references. The home dealer in magazines can generally give just as good a rate as the traveling solicitors. A party of fishermen, acting under the direction of the fish commissioner, caught over eight hundred pounds of fish in the Wabash river east of Peru Saturday, and in the lot were only four carp. « *