Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1895 — A Novel Scheme. [ARTICLE]

A Novel Scheme.

Of all the fin de slecle schemes to draw trade, the one recently gotten up by a shoe dealer In a town In the interior of Pennsylvania Is probably the most novel. He offers a bicycle to the boy through whom the largest quantity of shoes Is sold In two months. Naturally, nearly every boy In town has Interested himself In the matter, and, as a result, he is making life miserable for “his sisters, cousins and his aunts,” besides hls father, mother, Sunday school teacher, etc. Each boy participating In the contest Is given a pack of cards on which his name is written. These cards the boy distributes to his friends, requesting them to buy their shoes during the two months at So-and-so's, and present at the store one of the cards on which hls (the boy’s) name Is Inscribed. The storekeeper places the amount of purchase upon the card and files It to the boy’s credit At the expiration of the two months.

the various amounts will be summed up, and the boy whose account is the largest gets the “bike.”