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Title: Coupon Bonds: A Tale with Annotations and Banking house of George P. Bissell & Co., dealers in safe eight per cent. bonds, government securities, and first-class investments
Special Note About This Book: This book is essentially two books, or works, in one, but in an unusual format: the two works alternate, often on each page. The format is due to the book being promotional, or a form of advertising, for Bissell. The first work is the title on the cover, Coupon Bonds, and is an educational story. The second work, which has its title on the title page, is called, Banking house of George P. Bissell & Co.,, etc.; this work provides a description of the Bissell banking house, their locations (including images) and their services. Essentially, Bissell has reprinted, with permission, J. T. Trowbridge's story article on coupon bonds from an issue of the Atlantic Monthly, and has alternated that with a work promoting his banking house.
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend), 1827-1916. Coupon bonds George P. Bissell & Co
Subjects: Investment banking Securities
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : Bissell
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute
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Instead of applying himself at once to the restoration of his beaver, he hastened to the sitting-room, to see that the bonds were safe. Heavens and earth! exclaimed Ducklow. The chair, which had been carefully planted in the spot where they were concealed, had been removed. Three or four tacks had been taken out, and the carpet pushed from the wall. There was straw scattered about. Evidently Taddy had been interrupted, in the midst of his ransacking, by the alarm of fire...Even now to see what notice Ducklow would take of these evidences of his mischief. In great trepidation the farmer thrust in his hand here and there, and groped, until he found the envelope precisely where it had been placed the night before, with the tape tied around it, which his wife had put on to prevent its contents from ...'
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