Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1913 — LEFT THE DRUGGIST GASPING [ARTICLE]

LEFT THE DRUGGIST GASPING

Youth Drove Bharp Bargain, but According to Agreement, He Was Entitled to a Guess. Nicholas J. Pizagno, superintendent of the Southwark postal station, in telling how he was called to the phone in the middle of the night some time ago and effusively thanked for the receipt of a letter, said that his emotions for a minute or two were similar to those recently experienced by a druggist friend of his. The druggist, in order to stimulate trade, according to Mr. Pizagno, placed a jar of beans in his show window, together with a card announcing that every purchaser would be entitled to a guess as to how many beanß the jar contained, and that a handsome prize would be given the party nearest correct. One afternoon a young man, evidently from the country, happened along, glanced in the Bhow Window, and then entered the store. “I see you are givin’ away a prize for guessin’ them beans,” he remarked to the proprietor. “Kin I git a guess with any kind o’ purchase?” “Oh, yes,” was the smiling reply of the druggist “We don’t make any discrimination in the article you buy.” “All right, then,” was the prompt response of the youth, “there’s Jes’ about 2,342 beans in that jar. Gimme a 2-cent postage stamp.”—Philadelphia Telegraph.