[Rarebooks] FS: You say FROG, I say FRAUD!!

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8. [Fraud & Frogs] American Frog Canning Company Promotional Correspondence.

New Orleans: 1936.

A typewritten letter on the company’s very graphic stationary, dated May
19, 1936, signed by S. Schutt, forwarding information about raising frogs
for the company. The stationary includes pictures of the company offices,
a tadpole, a frog, a barrel of live frogs, and cans of frog a la king and
frogs' legs. Alas, the enterprise came to grief. The Sandusky Register for
the 19th of June, 1936, reported:

"Two frog specialists who opened a school here and then hopped to New
Orleans were held there today for transfer to Toledo to face a federal
charge that their mail-order course in commercial breeding of the
amphibians constituted a fraud. The two, Albert Broel, formerly of
Detroit, and Sylvester Schutt of Fremont, denied any guilt and were held
in lieu-of $2,500 bonds for return to Ohio, where their undertaking began
in 1933. Postal officials, who obtained their indictment secretly last
December, charged that Broel and Schutt offered for $47.50 cash or $157.60
in installments to instruct would-be frog-farmers in a business which they
professed would 'yield the student up to $100,000 in two years'. The
officials said such profits sounded too high, even though each graduate
student was promised a pair of frogs free from the farm here. After the
indictment, Broel and Schutt were discovered to have left Fremont and
opened the American Frog Canning Co., in New Orleans. Broel, who said he
was a Polish army officer during the World War, owned the farm here and
maintained a downtown office when the school functioned."

Letter. 8.5"x11". Folded, minor wear and soil. [39575] $85

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