Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1913 — WAKES PROFIT ON TINFOIL [ARTICLE]

WAKES PROFIT ON TINFOIL

Owner of Tobacco Btore Saves Discarded Wrappers and Sella Them —Library aa Trade Stimulus. “I am not ashamed to pick up a penny whenever and wherever I can,” said the proprietor of a small tobacco shop In New York. “There are lots of people who think It Is a sort of stigma upon their ability to pay so much attention to small sums. Not I, however. One scheme has netted me a very nice little profit every year. I run a small circulating library and I offer one year’s subscription free for a $2 purchase. All my subscribers agree to return the book promptly after a week has expired or pay a fine of three cents a day. ‘Those people are more indifferent about pennies than I am and there is hardly one of them who does not keep a book one or two days longer than he should. Not only do the sums 1 collect In fines pay for the books 1 purchase, but they even make a profit for me, and, what is more Important, th'4 library Bcheme helps to attract customers. “Then, too, I manage to make several dollars a year by collecting thq tinfoil used In wrapping up plug tobacco and cigarettes. I usually find a good deal of it lying about on the floor and since I sell it for about 20 cents a pound whatever I get for It Is pure profit.”