Judge — February 16, 1918 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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DCE February 16, 1918 Some Nut Probably Will Write in for a Little of this Stock ASE ESPONDENT at Shreveport sends us the following take-off on make- a-million-for-you-while-you-wait oil com- pany advertising. We don’t know who did the job, but it’s a nifty piece of work: THE GULLIBLES OIL & GAS CO: Our Motto: “‘A Sucker Born Every Second” This Company has leases on 1,000,000 Acres in No Man’s Land in Belgium and France am If we are ever able to drill we may find oil. ery The reasons we leased this acreage was be- cause we did not have to pay the landowners evy | any money for same. ; ave Another reason is, that the sucker public sful prefers quantity to quality. This one million acres has been turned over ore tothe Company for its entire Capital Stock of na- | One Million Dollars and we have generously and pla to it in the treasury for the purposes of selling same or, | tothe public at $1.00 per share on a par value lic. of $5.00 per share. If, after deducting office ex- ked penses, brokerages, fees for selling stock, and salaries there is anything left, we will proceed sh- todrill our valuable propertics as soon as we can with safe de- On January 31st the price of this stock will be ve- | advanced to $2.00 per share, not because it will er. be any more valuable then than now, but the e. public will imagine they are getting a bargain ris. | | 20d will more readily buy. It may be possible sa if the original stockholders or any of them are called on privately by a would-be purchaser of | they can buy their stock for Jess than adver- tised. in We again want to call the attention of the :u- | pablic to the liberai dealings of this company. We have only retained 51 per cent. of the capi- a tal stock so that if by any chance the Company ‘ch | Stould make money we will be in control. of | The well-known standing of our officers as- sures every one a square deal. —= | RACutes Ger Ricw Quick WALLINGFORD President President A. 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