If a fancier paid $4,000 for a dog and then imported him to a country where, in a dog population of some 2,000,000, there were only 500 other specimens of his breed, what could he do to make his purchase worth its price? Faced with this problem last month when he arrived in Manhattan to meet his Boxer Dorian von Marienhof, Fancier John P. Wagner of Milwaukee proceeded shrewdly. He incorporated Boxer von Marienhof for $4,000, began selling stock at $1 a share. First buyer was Boxer Jack Dempsey, who took ten shares.
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