IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE
This is a story of an honest farmeryseveral honest farmers (says the St. Louis correspondent of the ‘ New York Herald It proves that farmers who engage in business as peddlers are honest—after- they are caught with tlie goods. There appeared in a local newspaper the following advertisement: If the farmer who cheated lady out of three bushels of potatoes doesn’t bring them in the next day or two he will be arrested. He is known. It is perfectly apparent from results obtained by this advertisement that more than one farmer had cheated St. Louis housewives. More than half a dozen housewives, when they arose next uiornmg, ware agreeably surprised 'to lind three bushels of potatoes on the porch at tho reax of tbeir houses. They Igjow nothing of tho ad. But thev did remember having purchased potatoes the day previous from farmer peddlers. Even tho woman who threatened “her farmer” with arrest got the three bushels which were due her. Moral: It pays to advertise.
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Evening Star, Issue 16628, 10 January 1918, Page 3
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169IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE Evening Star, Issue 16628, 10 January 1918, Page 3
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