Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1901 — Smooth Fake. [ARTICLE]

Smooth Fake.

A publishing firm in Chicago, says an exchange, which publishes sheet music as a specialty, has adopted a new method of increasing its sales. To one young woman in every community the company has addressed a letter saying that a new and beautiful song" has been written and dedicated to her. For fifty cents three copies of the song will be mailed. The letter states that the song will be a great success, and the company feels that the young woman to whom it has been dedicated, will feel interested enough to buy several copies for distribution among her friends. Hundreds of young women, feeling flattered over the fact that some one has sought to perpetuate their names in a song, mail remittances to the firm, only to find that they have been duped by the company, whifeh wrote them of the new publication. The letters, by way of explanation, say that the dong is not of the “coon” variety, but “beautifully pathetic and pathetically true.” Henry Bray don, Harris, N. C., says “I took medicine 20 years for asthma but one bottle of One Minute Cough Cure did me more good than Any thing else during that time. Best

Cough Cure.

A. F. Long.