Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1887 — Operates in Back Sombers [ARTICLE]

Operates in Back Sombers

Nearly everyone in New York has heard of “Back Number” Budd, who puts away every daf fifty copies of each New York newspaper to sell them to customers years hence at 500 to 5,000 percent, profit. It is reported that he once received S7OO for a single newspaper. Recently he was called upon by some Kansas men, among whom was Senator Ingalls, who asked his assistance in procuring a complete file of The Leavenworth Journal for the two years that it was under the management of John Henderson, during the agitation that resulted in the Lecompton constitutional convention and the establishing of Kansas as a free State. The file was desired for the Kansas Historical society, and they were willing to pay SIO,OOO for it.— New York Tribune.