A TRUE ARCHIVE MYSTERY · ABOUT 12 MIN
THE NINETY-DAY PROMISE
A company promises extraordinary returns from international exchange. Audit obligations, activity and the path of repayments before deciding what funded them.
Editorial reconstruction of a ninety-day note$100 borrowed · $150 promised at maturity · 90 days
Interface reconstruction, not a historical facsimile. Every figure appears in the evidence below.
Eight exhibits from the official record
Readable evidence fallback
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- The company represented a 100% profit from post-war exchange differences.
- A $100 loan produced a note promising $150 after ninety days.
- Ninety-day notes were paid after forty-five days.
- Principal, return and commission made a fully paid $100 loan cost $160.
- $14,374,000 in notes exceeded $9,582,000 received by $4,792,000.
- Rapid transfers mixed receipts in a common account.
- The later official record states that no investments of any kind were made.
- Six lenders’ deposits had left before their checks were paid from a pool replenished by other borrowed money.
Possible explanations: a scalable trade; a real trade overwhelmed by growth; or later loans paying earlier lenders.