{"product_id":"wonderful-story-how-walter-i-rand-boston-business-man-achieved-a-fortune-drop-title","title":"Wonderful Story About Capt. Rand (cover title)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Wonderful story how Walter I. Rand, Boston business man, achieved a fortune\" (drop title). Wraps, 12mo, (16) pages. Pictorial covers with halftone photograph illustrations. Moderate abrasion to covers not obscuring images, tape to lower spine, a few stray pencil squiggles. OCLC shows 1 copy at the Hagley Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 pages with the story of Capt. Rand's trek through India to discover the \"Lucky Stone,\" and offer excerpts from \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"Articles on Luck\" by John J. Ingalls, citing the luck of self-made men like Andrew Carnegie. Copious endorsements, including attributions to Naval Commanders George Dewey and E. S. Houston. Many testimonials credit the stone with being offered well-paying work, having debts repaid and other financial rewards; others claim improved health, cured rheumatism, better eyesight, etc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eRand's operation later expanded to London. Stateside, a fraud order was issued against him by the Post Master on June 13, 1901, for \"sending moonstones of domestic manufacture to persons who sent him remittances for so-called 'lucky stones from Ceylon.'\" \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe order was revoked in December after Rand appealed, stating it was \"not his intention... to advertise semi-precious stones as coming from Ceylon or elsewhere.\" The back cover of this booklet is plain evidence to the contrary, advertising in all-caps: \"Oriental Lucky Stone from Ceylon India,\" perhaps dating this booklet before the fraud order. (\u003cem\u003eThe Jewelers Review\u003c\/em\u003e, Dec 18 1901, p.1201)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[ephemera, fraud]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46073587597462,"sku":"Q2163","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/haec-city-3492.jpg?v=1767726575","url":"https:\/\/alsobooksbooks.com\/products\/wonderful-story-how-walter-i-rand-boston-business-man-achieved-a-fortune-drop-title","provider":"Haec City \/ Also Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}