Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1883 — A Grocery Story. [ARTICLE]

A Grocery Story.

“Say, don’t you advertise ‘twelve nickel boxes of matches for 25 cents f ” asked an angry customer of a Fort Wavne grooer. “Yes, I do.” “That’s what I thought; so I sent my boy down for twelve of ’em and you gave him paper boxes, sir; you gave him common pasteboard boxes. Now, 11 want the nickel ones.” — Fort Wayne Hoosier.