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FROM THE ARCHIVEJul 16, 1916·New York, New York

MAIL ORDER TRICKSTERS CAUGHT

Scanned from New-York Tribune, Jul 16, 1916
MAIL ORDER TRICKSTERS CAUGHT
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Mail Order Trickstcrs Hooked By Government INSTEAD OF LANDING A WELL KNOWN SPECIES OF FISH THESE WILY ANGLERS GET LANDED NEATLY THEMSELVES Thc. Last Batch of Fraud Orders Was Issued Against an Interesting Variety of Mail Order Liireslwcrythin Offered From Potatocs to Undying LoveGood Work Being Done hy the Solicitor of the Postoffiec Department. Any amateur Iaak Walton will teli you lht fnhing b a royal sport. Not so thr mu or woman who hshes for thr variety that Barnum rcditcd with a remarkably hiph birth ratr.

To them fishmg U a business. Their open season is twelve months long their cast is made chicfly into the country districts through the mails and their bait is the carefully and deceptively worded adver tisement that offers something for nothing a lot for a little or the otherwise unattainable ln both cases the system is the samein one respect. The but is regwlated according to the catch desircd ln another re spect there is a wide dffercm e. The sportsman boasts of his suc cess while the mail ordi faker is as mum as a mummy Theie is danger il catching tarpon or shark.

I here is also danger in angling for.

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