Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1913 — Rascally Bill Smith. [ARTICLE]

Rascally Bill Smith.

George Newman, during the recent Baltimore conventton of advertising men, told at the midnight banquet a number of advertising anecdotes. • "Then there was Bill Smith”-wo one anecdote began—"the rascally BUI Smith, who put in all the papers an advertisement saying: “ ’Send 30 two-cent stamps tor speedy, safe and certain rat exterminator." "A good many people, their properties being overrun with rats, sent tor the rat exterminator. In return for their 30 stamps they got this recipe from Bill: ’“Treat your, rats with kindness—they’ll die of surprise on the spot.’ ”