Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1913 — Here is an Old One Again Going the Rounds. [ARTICLE]

Here is an Old One Again Going the Rounds.

A Goodland man who answered advertisements in cheap “story papers” has had some interesting experiences. He learned that by sending one dollar to a Yankee he could get a cure for drunkenness. Sure enough he did. It was to “take the pledge and keep it.” Later on he sent fifty fcwo-cent stamps to find out how to raise turnips successfully. He found out—- “ Just take hold of the tops and pull.” Being young, he wished to marry, and sent thirty-four one-cent stamps to a Chicago firm for information as to how to make an impression. When the answer came it read, “Sit down on a pan of dough.” It wa»feA little rough, but he was a patient man and thought he would yet succeed. Next advertisement he answered read, “How to double your money in six months.” He was told to convert his money into bills, “fold them,” and he would see his money doubled. Next he sent for twelve useful household articles and he got a “package of needles.” He was slow to learn, so he sent one dollar to find out “how to get rich.” “Work like the devil and never spend a cent.” And that stopped him, but his brother wrote to find out how to write a letter without pen or ink. He was told to “use a lead pencil.” He paid one dollar to learn how to live without work, and was told on a postal card to “Fish for suckers as we do.”