Ashley Jane
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292 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Ashley Jane’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When five million pounds of new stock was offered at three hundred pounds per share, it was all snatched up with avidity.
thirty million dollars of the stock was subscribed for.
When there were but five millions offered.
South Sea went up until in the midsummer month the stock stood at one thousand percent.
The whole nation was intoxicated.
Around about this scheme, as might have been suspected, others just as wild arose.
A company was formed with ten million dollars of capital for importing walnut trees from Virginia.
A company for developing a wheel to go by perpetual motion with a capital of four million dollars A company for developing a new kind of soap, a company for ensuring against losses by servants with fifteen million dollars capital.
One scheme was entitled A Company for Carrying On an Undertaking of Great Advantage, but nobody to know what it is Capital two million five hundred thousand dollars in shares of five hundred each, further information to be given in a month.
The books were opened at nine o'clock in the morning.
Before night a thousand shares were taken and two thousand pounds paid in.
So successful was the day's work that
That that night the projector of the enterprise went out of the business and
and forever vanish from the public.
But it was not a perfect loss.
The subscribers had their ornamented certificates of stock to comfort them.
Hunt's Merchants magazine, speaking of those times, says that from morning until evening Change Alley was filled to overflowing with one dense mass of living beings composed of the most incongruous materials and in all things save the mad pursuit in which they were employed the very opposite in the world.
its in habits and conditions.
What was the end of this chapter of English Enterprise?
Suddenly the ruin came.
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