Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1911 — Grain Gamblers Go Down. [ARTICLE]

Grain Gamblers Go Down.

Sam Finney, a Chicago board of trade broker, who operated branch offices at Rensselaer, Goodland and other towns in this vicinity a year or so ago under the management of Bert Hartley of GoocMand, was caught in the wheat slump Friday and was “posted” by the __ board. Pringle Wing & Co., was another Chicago firm caught in the wheat crash. Also* Pitt Brothers, & Co. of Baltimore, one of the oldest grain firms in that city. The Armour interests, who had been trying to form a corner on wheat, lost $1,500,000, it is said. The slump was occasioned by the rushing of huge quantities of wheat into Chicago from the west and the efforts of the Armour crowd to unload.