Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1920 — WORKING THE HOUSEWIFE. [ARTICLE]

WORKING THE HOUSEWIFE.

An Illinois exchange tells of a sugar swindle that is being worked in that section: An agent appears telling the housewife he has access to a big supply of Cuban sugar and can get all she wants at 10 cents a pound. He names a reference or two that sound all right, and he is willing to take orders for a very smell payment down. So the housewife pays 50 cents or $1 on a 50-pound order, and some even pay as mneh as $2, a payment on 100 pounds. The balance to be paid when the sugar is delivered —but needless to say it is never delivered. -