Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Didn't Advertise. The Logansport Journal of a late date says: “A printer recently walked into a certain store on his rounds to see if they desired anything in the way of advertising and noticed a drummer standing by the counter with a sample case ready to open. “Anything you desire to say in the paper this week?” inquired the printer of the man behind the counter. “No,” said the business man, “I wouldn’t give three hurrahs in h for advertising.” The drummer waited until the printer was half way to the door, then slowly taking up his sample case, remarked: “Well, that knocks me out. I don’t care to sell to any man in this enlightened age.who does not believe in advertising. When I want to strike up a trade with a dead man, I’ll go to the graveyard, and swap tombstones. Good day, sir.”

ADVERTISERS can learn the exact cost of any proposed line of advertising in American papers by addressing 6eo. P. Rowell & Co., Newspaper Advertising Bureau; lO Spruce St., New York. Sand lOcts. tor 100-Paga PamphlaV