Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1881 — To All Our Friends. [ARTICLE]

To All Our Friends.

Having had numberless inquiries for advertising cards from ladies in all parts of the country who are interested in the prevailing fashion of making "Card Collections,” we are having printed for them a set of seven beautiful cards .each in six colors and on a gold background, in the very highest degree of art, illustrating Bhakspeare’s "Seven Ages of Man.’’ We have spared no expense in these cards—they are shnply little artgems. Out only aim has been to publish the finest cards yet shown Applications for them have come in so rapidly that nearly the whole edition is engaged before the receipt , by us of the cards from the artist j We have therefore been obliged to adopt the following plan for the distribution of the remainder: No more of tlie gilt Shakspeare cards, seven in the series, will be sent excepting upon the receipt of a statement from a. grocer that the person applying for the cards lias bought of him on that day at least seven' bars of Dobbius r Electric Soap, with price paid for same. All applying in this manner will receive the full set of seven cards gratis by mail. This will insure us that our friends and natrons get their share of these beautiful designs, although it in no manner repays us for the coat of the cards. Your grocer has the soap or will get it, and the purchase by you of seven bars of it at one time will secure for you gratis seven really beautiful cards. The soap improves with age, and is an article of necessity in your house every week. Therefore you are not asked to buy a useless article, but one that you must have anyway. Please send us your applications at once, and tell your lady friends making “Card Collections,” to do the same. Grocers do not have the cards to deliver. Buy the soap of them, send us their bill, and we will mail you the cards free. Yours respectfully. I. L. Cragin & Co., 116 South 4th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. ’ P. B.—Ladies not wishing to buy soap can get the cards by remitting cost price, 25 cents. William H. Vanderbilt paid all the expense of removing the obelisk frorii the Nile to the Hudson, in all about $105,000.