Pyramid scheme. "High Fidelity" - 10 tier, ante $1, quota 2. Kansas City, 1935.

                   HIGH FIDELITY

        GUARANTEED PROSPERITY FRATERNITY

                    IN GOD WE TRUST

This chain was started in the hope of guaranteeing every participant
a nice little nest egg.

Make two copies of this letter and personally hand them to two of
your trustworthy friends.

Under no circumstances shall you let anyone have a copy of this
letter without witnessing with your own eyes the carring out of
the following instructions by the party to whom you give this letter.

Send $1.00 to the person whose name appears at the top of this list,
leaving this persons name off the two copies of the letter you
make and adding your won name and address at the bottom of this
letter.  Consider this dollar as a charity donation.  As your name
leaves the top of the list you will receive $1.024.00.

             IS A GUARANTEED SUM OF THIS AMOUNT WORTH A DILLAR TO YOU?

HAVE FAITH    HAVE CHARITY     HAVE PROSPERITY     CARRY ON

R. V. Lind    320 N. 30th           Kansas City, Kansas

F.J. Beurskens                      Grandview, Missouri

Francis Wirth  O/O Mc Kesson & Robbins     8th & Broadway     K.C. Mo.

Emma Hurst    2836 Bellview          Kansas City, Missouri

Millie Magill  118 Olive St.         Kansas City, Missouri

Sylvester Mahoney  419 W. 10th St.   Kansas City, Missouri

Wm. Wittrock    1405 Washington Blvd.   Kansas City, Missouri

Mary Martin    421 W. 10th St.           Kansas City, Missouri

J.W. Hawkins   1015 Barnett              Kansas City, Kansas

Roy Harris     2709 Holly                 Kansas City, Missouri
 

In presenting this letter to your friends give him an envelope stamped
and addressed to the person whose, name appears at the top of the
list and see that he mails a dollar wrapped in paper before letting
him have the letter.  This guarantees the life of this chain and
assures you a speedy delivery of your #1.024.00.

DO NOT MAIL THIS LETTER. YOU MUST WITNESS THE CARRYING OUT OF THE
ABOVE INSTRUCTIONS.

                         THANK YOU

Typed on 8.5 by 11 inch paper.  Keystrokes preserved, sic ragged address list, "carring", "dillar". Likely circulated in May 1935. Kansas City centered. Collected by VanArsdale.

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