Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1907 — FAKE ADVERTISEMENTS. [ARTICLE]

FAKE ADVERTISEMENTS.

The Democrat, in common with many other of the best advertising mediums of the country, has * once in a while published advertising matter of some patent nostrum or alleged recipe, that after contract was made with such ' concerns was found to be worded so as to make it appear that the advertisements were the words of the editor. Now, so far as The Democrat is concerned, it wants to state that this paper is not in the business of giving its personal endorsement io any such questionable schemes of advertisers, and a few days ago it cancelled a forty dollar contract unless it be allowed to designate at the top or bottom of the advertising matter that it was a paid advertisement and not the words of this paper. The matter referred to is that of the socalled “Fluid Extract of Dandelion,” “Compound Kargon,** etc. The remedies may be all that are claimed for them, but this paper does not propose to be used in any such manner as- set out in the advertisements if it knows it.