Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1896 — Ambitious Philadelphia Boys. [ARTICLE]

Ambitious Philadelphia Boys.

All of a sudden the bright, small boy In a part of West Philadelphia has developed a wonderful desire to run errands for the neighbors “free for nothing/ 1 and generous housekeepers have been marveling at the solicitation of contracts for the privilege of running after purchases. Numbers of the youngsters have made compacts that they shall be the privileged ones for a certain period. The mystery is explained by a scheme of some of the storekeepers, who give each boy a card Indicating the amount of the purchase, and when the boy becomes the possessor of the tickets aggregating a certain amount he Is made the recipient of a percentage of all that has been bought through his agency. A corps of amMttoun young drug and grocery brokers la thus being developed.