Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1917 — SALESMAN WINS BIG FORTUNE [ARTICLE]

SALESMAN WINS BIG FORTUNE

Goes to Russia on Commission and Returns With Orders Totaling ’ Memphis, Tenn. —After having gone to Russia to secure orders for American shoes, Arthur S. Biggerstaff of this city has returned with orders totaling more than $2,000,000. . ’ When the salesman suggested an Invasion of Russia the house he represented looked with disfavor on the "plan arid declined to advance him expense rfibney. He jnade an agreement with the Tibuse that he would go at his own expense, receiving in return a percentage on all the business he secured. His profits amount to almost $500,000. Mr. Biggerstaff will return to Russia in the spring. He says American manufacturers could secure an almost unlimited amount of business in Russia if they were more optimistic and willing to make the proper effort to get it.