Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1904 — A Popular Fake Ba[?]red from the Mails [ARTICLE]

A Popular Fake Ba[?]red from the Mails

The Postcffioe Department has issued a fraud order agaitst the jßoardmau Consolidated Publish jag Company of New York, a concern which bought up all the letters received by various firms offering prizes for Solving puzzles. The .puzzle eolwrs we.e then notified that their answer to a certain pnz gle was correct and that they were .entitled to a watch or a gold lined silver dessert set or some other prize, provid.d they would send $1.30 to pßy for a year’s subscrip, tion to the ‘lllustrated Graphic,” or some other fake paper, and pay the expense of paoking and shipping the premium. The company