Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1889 — Gooff Literature. [ARTICLE]

Gooff Literature.

Buffalo (N, Y.) Express. Did you ever stop to think of the vast amount of good literature thrown away in this country? This inquiry is suggested by a few facts relative to ttuTWs. etc -, issued by the proprietors of the well-known medicine, Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Over 12,000,000 eopies of cook books have been circulated within a few years by this concern. Hood’s book of parlor games has also contributed to the enjoyment of perhaps milllions of people, as four or five millions of the books have been published. The new book of home-made candies, also issued by the famous Lowell medicine house, has been in great demand the past winter. Thousands of Hood’s plaques have decorated as many homes, and the popularity of Hood’s Calendar is something wonderful. In all, the annual output by G. I. Hood & Co. reaches the enormous quantity of 65,000,000 pieces, or one for every man, woman and child in the United States. , It fnay be said that they wouldn’t do this if it didn’t pay. That is just the point. The proprietors of this medicine can not afford to be purely philanthropic and they certainly cannot afford to advertise a ppor article. There must be •merit in the medicine to secure the continued increasing sale which it has and also to warrant expending such a vast amount of money for. the purpose of spreading its fame in territory where Hood s Sarsaparilla is unknown. No amount of advertising can long sustain an article devoid of merit. The numerous testimonials show conclusively that thousands of people have been benefited By Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and no one can deny that a great deal of good has been dene by this high class of advertising.

Pittsburg ships 18,000,000 tons of freight yearly, and claims to lead American cities.