Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1895 — Odd Advertising Scheme. [ARTICLE]

Odd Advertising Scheme.

A Broadway shoe dealer has hit upon what seems a new advertising scheme. Every day he places a fine pair of shoes, narrow fives or sixes, in his Bhow window', and offers to sell them at a price ranging from one to twenty-*ve cents to any man whom they will fit perfectly. It is a proof that many New Yorkers have small feet that the shoes rarely remain unsold for more than a day. Though seemingly new, this is but a variation of an old and successful scheme of a well-known Brooklyn firm of hatters of exhibiting a very large-sized hat and offering to give it to any man whose head it will 'fit.