Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1917 — Trade Development Profitable. [ARTICLE]

Trade Development Profitable.

The competition of cities to secure trade for their manufacturers, wholesalers and jobbers is particularly keen. The development of package car service, the expediting of merchandise, the extension of trade territory through co-operative effort in shipments and the covering of the qulck'ad-’ justment of claims, the generating of enthusiasm for certain v communities as trade centers —this work is vigorously and persistently carried on by chambers of commerce, with field secretaries. trade magazines and trade trips, and the money spent in this work returns a hundred fold in new accounts and Increased orders.