Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1901 — What A Tale 1t Telle. [ARTICLE]
What A Tale 1t Telle.
If that mirror of yours shows a wretched, sallow complexion, a jaundiced look, moth patches and blotches on the skin, it’s liver trouble; but Dr. King’s New Life Pills regulate the liver, purify the blood, give clear skin, rosy cheeks, rich complexion. Only 25c at A. F. Long’s drug store.
A lady in an adjoining town recently went into a dry goods establishment and made Some purchases. When she had finished the clerk started to wrap them up in the wrapping paper having the advertising of the house printed in big letters. The lady very politely said to him: “Please turn the other side of that paper out, I do not think that I should be asked to become a walking advertisement for this store and I do not care to flaunt the fact in the face of your competitor, who is also my friend, that I do my trading at this place. We have a newspaper here, and I consider that is the proper place to do your advertising.” When you come to think of it the request was a reasonable one. No person likes to publicly advertise to the world that they do their trading at any particular store and dislike to show competing houses their preference. ,
