Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1913 — Parcel Post Ad Brings Him Business. [ARTICLE]

Parcel Post Ad Brings Him Business.

Hammond Times. W. H. F. Parry, the Gary brick dealer who achieved fame by mailing out 1,000 heavy paving bricks, weighing 6,000 pounds, thus upsetting the Gary parcel post department, yesterday received the benefit of the advertising he got. Parry’s exploit was printed in every paper in the country on Tuesday. Yesterday he received an order for 75,000 bricks from Cheswick, while a second request was for brick quotations from Jefferson City, Mo. A third letter'was from a Philadelphia firm enclosing circulars of a brick machine. Attached was a clipping from the Philadelphia Record telling of the dismay of Postmaster Call when the bricks were mailed. Other letters were received and each of the writers stated that they saw Parry’s name in the papers of their home city.