Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1916 — Useless “Lest and Found Ado.” [ARTICLE]

Useless “Lest and Found Ado.”

An QjS man, well past sixty, entered the publication offices of the Book and Life, and asked to be directed to the Lost and Found counter. At the proper department, he requested the insertion of the following “liner ad": LOST—About forty yearsago—an opportunity. It is probably worthies* now, but I will reward the honest finder who brings rt to me, as I am Curious to know what it might have done for me hdd l not been careless with it. The clerk read the advertisement and then looked pityingly at the old man. “We’ll insert your ad,” he said, “but it Is my duty to inform you that there is hardly any use in putting it in. We have no records of any lost opportunities ever having been found.” The old man thought for a few minutes. Then he said: “Well, insert it anyhow. People will read it and start to thinking.” Then he went away.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.