Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1914 — The Forty Year Test. [ARTICLE]

The Forty Year Test.

An article must have exceptional merit to survive for a period of forty years. Chamberlain’s Cough remedy was first offered to the public in 1872. From a small beginning it has grown in favor and popularity until it has attaned a world wide reputation. You will find nothing better for a cough or cold. Try it and you will understand why it is a favorite after a period of more than forty years. , It not only gives relief—it cures. For sale by A. F. Long.

Rensselaer merchants will sell you a kitchen range and the equal to any manufactured at prices varying from SSB to S6O. They are right here all the time ito fulfill their guarantee. Strangers are traveling through Jasper county out of Rensselaer offering ranges at prices materially higher than Rensselaer dealers charge. No one should give them encouragement, for in doing so you are contributing to the injury of the community in which you live. During the past few months the Rensselaer churches have furnished basement kitchen and dining rooms and the local merchants have supplied, .practically everything purchased at cost price. They have also contributed liberally to the support of the churches, jiist as 'they do to the support of all worthy local enterprises. Last fall the Rensselaer schools installed a domestic science course. They fieeded several oil and gasoline stoves, working tables, etc. Local merchants furnished the stoves and other things at cost. These men are deserving of your patronage even if there was a price advantage in favor of buying of strangers, but in this case the ranges of the local merchants, which are equal if not very much better than those offered by canvassers, can be procured at prices sl3 to sls cheaper. Don’t buy from the strangers. The home merchant will treat you right and back up his promises by his residence right here among you.