The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-01-08
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Judging from the advertisements which
peep out here and there in some of the
newspapers, there is to be repeated this
season the of repeated dodge of name
getting,n an artitice which has been ex-
posed in the Reporter and elsewhere,
but seemingly with the usual non-effeet
has been made before, that ''the fools
are not all dead" No, they live to be-
come the natural food of the sharpers;
as the pOrgie and mOss-bunker of historic
Brooklyn live to become the natural
food Of the blue-fish as they swim like
gudgeon to the tempting food of the
shores OF Long island.
It is a curious fact in connection with
this matter of ''names--wanted" or
''naInes for sale. f" that in spite of the ex-
posure and condemnation of respectable
newspapers. the advertisements appear
worded precisely the same as before; the
sharpers have not taken the trouble of
changing so much Us IL syllable. Here
Is a recent example:
FOR SALE.-A li-t of 6, 600 names
that have been obtained by advertising
All are genuine, and the letters will De
sold with them Address--''
What are these namesl They are
simply such as have been obtained from
cOuhtrymen in all parts of the United
States by parties who have ADVERTISED
counterfeit money. patent medicine OF
dubious character, advantage" play
ing cards. and things of the sort. These
are not only the names OF greenhorDs,
but of low and vicious greenhorns. The
dealer IN such names will get n good
price for them as soon as he can satisfy
his customer that they are what they pur-
port to be. It is only necessary TO show
lllat the names are genuine, and are an
swered to by so many corrupt fools; and
il is TO prove this, that the letters, as
runs the advertisement, will be sold
with them"
A gentleman once asked man en-
gagged in one Of the many swindles, how
he obtained the names of the parties to
whom he sent his circulars.
That is the great trouble, he replied.
'FWe can get names enough out of the
directories, but they are not such as we
want. We buy lists, sometimes. from
the publishers of a certain class of week
" papers, but they are not very good,
as the people who read most any paper
get, alLeF a WIFE, TOO lUbclllSe1b IOf u.
We sem to the POstmasters, but they
are stupid and give US the names of the
most prominent men, instead Of the oh
scure ones, which we want. Sometimes
we hire men to 90 around through the
country places and collect names, under
variuus pTetenses, but this costs great
deal of money, as a man must stop some
time in village or country town before
he can get at the names The best list
are those made up by copying every
name written on the walls of railway
stations and the buildings that surround
them. and in the country stores. A man
who writes his name in public place is
pretty sure 10 be an idiot, or so near one
that he IS pretty sure TO Bite at a gilt
teTIng bait.
j. IL not a pleasing pieturel There
are said to be IN New YORK at present
two or three hundred men who live by
orsying in these wavS on the credulity
OF countrymen. They are seldom
brought 70 justice from the fact that
men cannot prosecute them without
eOnfessing TO the fact that they wanted
70 swindie some one.
WHY will not the country newspapers
pat stop 10 the profits OF a business.
which must in some degree iniure hon
est advertising. by fully exposing the
matter in their journals. = AmeYfcdn
Newspaper Reporter.