The Colfax County Press publishes a weekly column entitled Peeking into the Past, which is comprised of articles taken from earlier Colfax County Press files, written by Helen C. Evans. A special thank you to the Colfax County Press for allowing me to reprint those articles! The following are selections from that column:
December 27, 1923 - reprinted June 19, 1996P.H.L. Meyer of Columbus, who recently returned from Germany after selling his farm which he bought there two years ago and investng the $50,000 proceeds in socks so he could get the money out of the country has received work [sic] from the factory at Chemnitz, Germany, where the order for the socks was placed, that the entire consignment has just been shipped, billed to Chicago, where they will be held by the customs officials until Mr. Meyer claims them and pays the duty which will amount to nearly another $25,000. The shipment comprises more than 8,000 dozen of men's, women's and children's socks and stockings. Mr. Meyer made a trip to Omaha, Chicago, Kansas City and St. Joe in quest of a market for the socks. He found several prospective customers, but says he can't close with any of them until the goods arrive so he can show them. The bank in Chemnitz in which Mr. Meyer deposited his $50,000, pending the filling of the order by the factory, charged him $250 commission for taking care of his money for a few weeks, in advising him of the shipment of the socks, the factory wrote that its employees would like to have him send them a consignment of lard, flour and certain other foodstuffs which are difficult to procure there and would pay for it with socks. Mr. Meyer says, however, that he isn't looking for any more hosiery. All he wants now is to get his money out of the $50,000 worth of socks he owns and invest it in Platte county farm land.
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