The “Green Goods” Business Exposed for the Benefit of All who have Dishonest Inclinations. Smallest Magazine in the world. Subscription price 50 cts. per year. Single Copies 5 cts. each. PUBLISHED BY A. B. COURTNEY, Room 74, 45 Milk Street, BOSTON, MASS. COUNTERFEIT MONEY....

Every good thing has its imitation, and this includes money. Counterfeiting dates back to the old Greek and Roman times, and the despicable business has been kept up ever since, and probably always will be. In some countries the laws are so severe that the conviction of a maker or passer of spurious coin or bills means death. In America the punishment is usually a long term of imprisonment. Nevertheless people of dishonest tendencies seem to have a mania for wanting to “shove the queer,” and are

Here is a statement about the extensive mailing of “green goods” circulars. The story was told by Van Buren before the Lexow committee in 1894. Benjamin D. Van Buren, a discharged chief clerk of the Jersey City post office, told a startling story. “I was chief mailing clerk,” said Mr. Van Buren. “My attention was first called to the green goods business about eight years ago. The first thing that I noticed was the hiring of boxes by green goods men. I knew them by sight only. This lasted two or

The following interesting story appeared in the New York Herald of February 10, 1895, and indicates that there has been but little cessation in the “green goods” business: Mr. Hace Ead, of Texas, who comes on to New York every spring to buy “green goods,” and who each time takes home a valise full of bricks, but who, nevertheless, returns to the business again, hoping against hope, will have no more difficulty in making his purchases this year than he had last. The “green goods” men are still at

There are still other reasons. A “come-on” is frequently a wild looking being, with lengthy hair and an embarrassed manner, who continually falls over himself and gets buncoed or robbed before he reaches the swindlers to whom he morally belongs. “If he is a queer sight,” said an operator, “he won’t attract so much attention in Jersey City as he would in New York.” Chief of Police Murphy told me the other day that there were many “green goods” men quartered in his bailiwick in temporary exile. Th

One of the tricks that has superceded “green goods” is the “country postmaster,” or “red goods” game. A circular is sent to postmasters in out-of-the-way towns where the level of intelligence is supposed to be very low, informing them that the writers have become possessed of a large quantity of postage stamps, and are waiting for a chance to sell them at from thirty-five cents to fifty cents on the dollar, according to the quantity taken. After this the modus operandi is precisely similar to th

Here is a new wrinkle in the line of green goods business. Ordinarily the country brother, when he speculates in this class of stock, goes in without regard for the proprieties, for the purpose of making whatever he can out of the scheme, and, if he gets the supply as promised, feels satisfied with the arrangement. This new idea is something of a variation on the old plan, however, in that it swindles the man who is himself contemplating a swindle on his neighbors and on the government. Instead

but the writer forgets to state that the government which is represented on the money went out of existence about 30 years ago. Confederate money is what will be sent, and the agreement will be literally carried out so far as the amount specified goes. If the customer “kicks,” he is bound hand and foot, so to speak, for he has made himself a party to the fraud by sending for the article advertised, and which is really much worse than what he receives....