Show al 1 AUTHENTIC STATEMENT special to THE EXPRESS W babson DICU finding Find iriv fortune NEW YORK CITY 1 I have juat ast hrin asked by a wall street a 11 ker to hei help p I 1 him i lin kit get tome so called worthless wo r th 1 e ss securities anwa from the readers of this coll column for a few cents a berti not per share worthless stocks may now be valuable I 1 hear heir that for every fifty which I 1 i this broker buys he finds that forty nine arc are now worthless but conj on Is worth perhaps 1000 this would be a certificate which some company needs in order to dissolve or consolidate without any outstanding S obligations or complications cat ions of course it would be unfair t to 0 my readers for me to advise t them h e in what to do but I 1 do urge you to throw nothing away which looks like a stock certificate even it if your father or brother says it Is valueless and just cluttering terin g up u P his desk or safe deposit box ex please do not send me any certificate to look at but show them to your regular banke rIf 11 you wish uranium ii Is recovering covering He value values most of these worthless certificates in your attic or desk drawers are of old mining companies they may never have been an any good or are petered out the e company did not hare have the money to dissolve ile legally ally but some rancher has pia paid the taxes for the privilege of using the land for pasture hence the company was vas forgotten after the stockholders were told it was no good the land is still useless for fetting getting gold or silver copper or read lead but ut uranium may hava have be been dpn boandl As a result the land could increase in value in one week from per acre to per acre acrel some old tun er who remembers the old company has found a list of the old stockholders and has written them a 9 letter offering 1000 a ciare As the tile envelope containing hese certificates wa was 9 marked d valueless the family gold sold them for 10 00 per share while today chev arc are really worth 1000 a share stockholders erst too often move away when you move from one house to another and especially lally from one city to another on bo be sure to write the company in which you hold any s stock took of your 0 U r now address s s dont over look k at a valueless certificate and say it is not worth a 3 cent PO postage a tage stamp and the time required I 1 red for writing such a letter atif after ter too many changes of address your envelope elope comes back marker mrk er unk unknown no and the company marks you dead one of the companies in which my family has very large holdings united stores common selling on the american stock exchange for 3 to 4 has nearly such stockholder stockholders who cannot be located berh perhaps you are one of these stockholders d there probably aro are hundreds of other companies co Manles just like united stores this is stock could easily double or treble in value never sell bell defaulted bonds when a stock astock stops paying dividends the price of the e stock may gradually decline but no one gets panicky the wie stock holders hope for a resumption of dividend dividends when however a bond re faults especially a foreign bond most bondholders bond holders think this Is the end theorice the price of tho the boldthen bond then suddenly drops dirou froin around par to fifty cen cents I 1 a an the do dollar ar discouraged csc ul bondholders bond holders have rushed to sell seu their bonds and the price has dropped to twenty or even less but in the cou course ale of yeara years many of ol these bonds re returned many in value lue of f 1000 some of the e hotels in the famous She ranton i chain were built in the gaynl gay nineties abe bonds were sold for 1000 Q each then they defaulted and kicked about at perhaps for years finally one of at jostons moat mod courageous us financiers ernest henderson had faith in the te hotel business and bought up these bonds they have since been paid oft at par what you should D do belore selling any worthless ess stock or defaulted bond bona you can send to the Anfor In for matlon center at New Boston new guam Hampshire re this gives I 1 no investment advice remt has 11 lists of such stock sa will pass as along to you what reports report ahas it has on file this Is a non pro fit educational association to help desery deserving Wg people on business problems the will wm cover af a worl f full ua years jn inquiry in IA I 1 other words you can write again 1 about the same stock or antl bond anytime within 12 months without further cost to you jou |