IT DIDN'T PAY
■ A Perth store advertised that it had clothes pegs for sale! The next morning crowds rushed the place, burst open the doors, and swept away a guard of shop assistants. "We had 30,000 pegs, and thought we would do people a good turn by advertising them, but they wrecked the place," said the manager. Clothes pegs are one of the wartime shortages.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 5, 7 January 1944, Page 3
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65IT DIDN'T PAY Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 5, 7 January 1944, Page 3
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