Putnam patriot., 1926-01-29
NEW SCHEME BEING
 WORKED IN PUTNAM
Endless Chain of Coupons to Get Stockings May Prove
 Boomerang Possibilities to Lose Seem outstand-
 ing Features

An endless chain scheme by a New ] fork concern which is attractive at first glance but which should receive careful consideration is being worked i m Putnam as it has been worked in other cities for short period lt IS only another plan to market merehan- disc by other than a strict legitimate out and out purchase. The possibili- ties of loss to those who 20 into the scheme, especially to the later en- itrants seems, on the face of the plan ] te be very great.
 ] The scheme Is being used to sell ladies hosiery and is worked by the coupon system. The first laly 10 re- eeive coupon is instructed to send i 1t to the sales rooms in New York with four dollars. When the New i iork concern receives the first four dollars ft issues three more coupons to the holder of the first coupon and the chain Is started
 Sells Three Coup ,ns
 The holder of the frs. set If eou- Ipons is now directed to sell three of the coupons to three friends and the l friends are instructed to go through the same procedure This makes the endless chain. The woman who sells | he shree coupons uoN has a dollar ib- vested and when certain LGmber of coupons. t is though. thu. the num- Der is ten. is received by the New York concern, the first woman in gets a dozen pairs of silk stockings.
 ii may be that the sehema Is work. led on smaller scale and that with the four coupons the first woman gets one or more pairs of stpekinEs However, the sales soareHa Is getUag good price for its wares WhIla che woman who Is in tifst also gets gucl ] ba. saIn for her orisaHil 6yilaf wheu sAe gets the StockH
 .si the question e. Wbcr. do the ! la'a mces ft after hundreds If tbtse 5a-P Poas arc distriba ist2
 Enormous Napl.er
 | Itzle computation wfi show chat ! ty t.t5#.I8e# len WeH3aE haze fallen |fr. ut 1i=u 57 a49 eo4p4Hs have been iz-teu The hrst W5M..J gets three SBa se5.s them au8 tne next three Vgmtu take nine the nine reAch'. t4.eHt7=.eFeH the twenty roach ~ 1fshfy=one the eiVhty=eue reaches 243 and so on up to the grand tota stated above when teE women are IT ttb -catf#e.
 \ ,otl of 59.0I9 coupons on the 1 IuHuHcJ=ia citY of S1D1 makes 1T al euee anfareut that Il ieh harvest wluId h. reaped If -hay could Ii bs sold nt dollar each If the scheme etula he carried IT ,Vcfy wo.aar Wodid r., stocxines ,ut icN can Il h. would tait so. 949 to pur clase those coupons.
 Chain May Break
 There is still another feature ana th..t Is that the chain may be broken x ha' happeus .hal is not exactly certain but il is eer.3un that the mer. ehandtsing company does not-lJse
 No matter how many warnings are issued to the buying public an ap- 1 tqr mt chance to get something foI nothing is always supported by eer. tain number \ loyal citizen of Put. nam. whose wife was urged Co buy q coupon. and in fact did so to help q friend called attention to the scheme after he had figured out ihe cn1rnity of it and the possibilities of lost friendships when some of the latel ones enter the scheme to find the mar ket flooded with coupons is also aD. parent