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Lottery sharks -- Boult and his brothers -- Kenneth, Kimball and Company -- A more central location wanted for business -- Two seventeenth lies -- Strange coincidence.
I have before me a mass of letters, printed and lithographed circulars, and the like, which illustrate well two or three of the most foolish and vicious swindles [it is wrong to call them humbugs] now extant. They also prove that there are a good many more fools alive in our Great Republic than some of us would like to admit.