New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-11

Bureau OF INVESTIGATIONS OF New lorN ioh
Tn hA ss F & % lands % SRoca@ and
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acting in conjunction With the United States b sGyeTnmf S AND the
Mces false impression to the reading public and there
pullman Car asked a
pay The changed
Si sHcS Character the former g 81 @ VIII thank you for
any Information your
Signed EDWARD SWAMI District Attorney.
The Attorney provided with the material contained
the Investigations For the immediate
who have been moved by the manesy unfair
and misleading advertisements the following
regarding Exchange offered
the McAester Real Estate Exchange in Cincn
natl Ohio McAester Oklahoma The president G. R. Van
of Cincinnati This % said to operate n ten PGm%T cars
public by series Of similar tone that
which t astn i'f analysis Of this
ee The phng Of the Advertising that
parallel lines which could meet in reality
The advertisements appeal is:
T have drop Of red thTpbS9g blood in your body where
big year, where the soil from fourteen
and o easy yearly can be happy"
Then in the accurate phrases of
..e e sa S fhs parity four s" sAsa
dollars per
Not quite imply the advertisement that the
farming formerly sold from 50 81 and then to put
an unqualified minimum of $40 in the contract?
What farmer who sick with the effort of trying to make
could read unmoved such paragraph this
taken from the McAester advertising:
E e: :: W. 'T @ ;s @
5GhRson p pn m G dollars F an eGent !7s apiece
paid D y $500 for e s and today
Needless say left the District
Attorneys hands paragraph does
an the of the vast oil belt the advertisements
continues you independent the hundreds
who have become tremendously rich The opportunity open 70
you you the United States government the government
and an Gu that s9 arrouned BY than
he Speaking through Cato Sells Indian
Affairs at washington, actually say
the % ',s' sS
for oil will be permitted has
Dee" ~HhetRsr the impression
the Of said Mfestsr RGa Estate he9gS Ecbamse
for the gymsn and wa the afsn sss s e from
Ds51ees nGa of R MSlstsr Rss Esase Exchange
car, to adyers or exploit the sale Indian lands All
S asA UGd States government with hocg cssaw
Indian nations and are net d6 i1e as c no
the government to sell any Indian
Take another point The advertising reads system
choose i but it'd get it, In a Sf type no r S CON-
neted with the government they any preferential rights
%g SS @aan on a this Saae the Advertising
the 9s '' ss 3';g 35a:'sss' s5i5
person will have any
s5 bs offered s9s 'f fo
The advertised guarantee Of aan or ynP money s a s9u4ss
fnoGgs as vow Choose s YOUR own land Just the location you desire
you dissatisfied time within year you may receive
tract Itself gives no protection that kind whatever anything
As of fact the company assumes as part OF Its Obligation mat
the best price obtaina will sell said lands prior
suf
for all paid for the aforementioned
paid land cent The
rental obtainabe
If obiga
tons under the literally fulfilled however dissatisfied the
purchaser may be.
The advertising refused by The World and The Tribune
the The Times published
after investigation finally declined the
The Globe and The Sun have all published the
the latter have also given this company
complimentary in their columns.
that this indicted and tried for using the mail
Oklahoma examined
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But although the Exchange has
within the this the features
called combined the misleading
make the scheme full pitfalls for
informed
shifting of this propaganda have not inspired enthusiasm
authorities advertising clubs other
Minneapolis moved after brief stop when the
Minneapolis Advertising
Forum This cooperation between the banks and the advertising club
worth noting Another the Tulsa Syndicate
also took speedy departure from Minneapolis when the ader
which
land barred by the local The Jour-
The Tribune could
Colabora-