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securities.
“These Ontario brokers realize that they can’s sell their securities at home or through reputable stock brokers in this state. They know that people of means throw such trash in the waste basket. Therefore, they make up their mailing lists of low income citizens who can ill afford to lose a dollar but who need to snails some extra money. Then through high pressure literature, telephone calls and telegrams they persuade our citizens to purchase shares of this stock. He is told that he has to invest only $30 or $50 or $150 and that he stands a good chance of making a fortune.*
“The unsuspecting victim is usually told of other Canadian mining stocks that have increased in price and they furnish so-called examples of fortunes made by in
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