Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1912 — Business! [ARTICLE]

Business!

A Paris shopkeeper wrote to one of his customers as follows: “I am able to offer you cloth like the enclosed sample at nine francs the meter. In case I do not hear from you I shall conclude that you wish to pay only eight francs. In order to lose no time, I accept the last mentioned price.”