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By the first of July all the funds had been invested in building materials. A day or two later the two brokers went bankrupt and the citizens of Battle Creek lost $50,000. White picks up the story:

… the brokers with whom we had deposited the money from the office were selling shopworn shoes in an inferior store. And as we saw them, we exclaimed, “They have …

… the brokers was not safe, and that we should immediately draw it, which we did, to purchase stone, brick, and lumber for the new building.— Ibid., 252 .

… the brokers’ exchange and then to the Louvre, now a museum but formerly the palace of the kings. Next, Napoleon's tomb. “The marble tomb,” she noted, “contained all …

… two brokers in the town in the anticipation of building a new publishing house in the spring. The sums involved were substantial. In November, the night after …