Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1918 — WHAT AN OLD GEASER DID. [ARTICLE]

WHAT AN OLD GEASER DID.

There was an old geaser, he. had a lot of sense. He started up business on a dollar, eighty cents. The dollar for stock and the eighty cents for a"n ad brought him three lovely dollars in a 'day, by dad. Well he bought more goods and a little more apace, and he played that systepi ■with a smile on Iris face. The customers flocked to his two-by-four and soon he had to hustle for a regular store. Up on the squaire where the people pass, he gobbled up a corner that was all plate glass. He fixed uip 'the window with the best hie had, and told them all about it in a half page ad. He soon had ’em coming, and he never quit, and he didn’t ,cut down his ads one And he’s kept things humming on the town ever since, and everybody calls him the merchant prince. Soane say it’s luck, but that’s all bunk, why, he was doing business wh.en (the times were punk.