Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-03-30
A Chance for a Fortune.
OFFICE OF HAMMETr d Co.
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NEW YORK, March 22d, 1865.
DEAR SIR.-As we write to you on q subject
that our letter will require no apology. Know
ing tull well that if a good Prize were sent to
some person in your section OF the state, who
would HoW We money, and make it generally
known, our business and reputation as Prize
Sellers would be greatly benefited, we have ta-
ken the liberty of addressing you, to tender to
you beautifully arranged Package of Tickets
which we have carefully selected and labelled
for you in the enclosed agniticcnt scheme We
do this however only upon condition. that If
successful, you use your influence among your
acuuuintunces in our favor You viii nfeosa
understand that we design this arran ngement to
act as an advertisement of our Firm, and YOU
Will therefor be expected to exhibit the money,
and circulate the report that you drew IL ut
llammett Cos Lucky office.
should you be prejudiced against Lotteries &
Here Is our offer: We Will send you for $40 a
Tickets, (the one selected in tie enclosed truly
rlcii and splendid scheme ofthe Royal Havana
or Snpa an M. h to be be drawn on the 18th
tucky, and we are SO certain that we know how
10 select Lucky certificate, that If the one we
$1,000 Prize, we Will send you another Package
in one of our extra Lotteries for nothing.
All Prizes drawn ut our Agency are promptly
paid at our Office, No. 50 Nassau street in New
York city, by Draft or otherwise as the purcha-
ser may direct. Send us SO by return mail, and
give us the name of your nearest Bank SO that
there may be no delay in forwarding you n draft
rs soon as the drawing is over.
Should you doubt either the Legality of our
business or our acting under authority ofa L.
). License, you are AT liberty to address either
the managers OF make such other enquiry aS
you deem advisable. Use the enclosed envelope
IN making your remittance, and write the name
hand. Contidential.J
Yours Truly, HAMMETT & Co.
We received the above confidential letter
by due course of mail, and we return our
heartfelt thanks to Messrs. Hammett 4 Co.
for the unsolicited, unexpected and disin-
terested concern they have taken in our
pecuniary affairs, and for the sake of saving
postage and to give a public acknowledge
ment Of our gratitude to them we answer
through these columns.
or course we will "shoU the money!" We
will buy our wife new dress, the baby a
plentiful supply of candy and the dog new
collar. We will 'treat' all our friends,
contribute to the Freedmen's Aid Society,
and 80 to church in a pair of high -heeled
boots and Il stove-pipe hat. Wcwll haul out
our greenbacks (if that is the currency you
send) ON the street corners and exhibit them
in every public place, and on all occasions
Hammett e. Co. shall be spoken of as the
authors Of our wealth and the fnishers Of
our fortune.
You, gentlemen, can rely on our influence
to aid you in the laudable undertaking OF
forcing riches upon all the people and 1.-THE
rest of mankind" We will advertise your
lucky firm and induce all the people to seek
fortunes from your magic hands You will
send us the money by the lst Saturday in
May, and we hereby notify all our friends
to come to Millersburg on that day to see
us 'show it. "
We have not the least objection to re-
ceiving money in this way Dear friends,
give yourselves no uneasiness on that point.
We would be willing 10 take twice the sum
you suggest ''in this way" Send us the
80, 900 to start on, and after we have shown
that and, peradventure, may have invested
1t, we can call on you again.
We have not the $40 by us to send you
You can deduct that small sum out of the
prize and send us the balance, $780,
ENos, Brown O. Co. are our Bankers al
this place. You can send draft on them
they will certainly honor it. Ofcourse you
have funds in every Bank in America to
draw on; else you would not be able to send
a draft on any bank that might be named.
We have no doubt about ''the legality OF
your business nor do we question that
you are acting under authority of U. S.
License" Have you revenue stamp on
your license? We shall make no further
enquiry, but patiently wait for the coveted
$4,000; less the SO for the tickets.
Many Of our readers have doubtless re.
ceived circulars similar to the above. Our
advice is, not to send the $40 until they
have ascertained to certainty that we are
in receipt of the $4,000.
We will here state privately to the reader
that all these lottery schemes are swindles,
and he who sends them $40 or any other
sum is fooled out of it.