Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1875 — A First-Class Firm. [ARTICLE]

A First-Class Firm.

From the Grand-Rapids (Mich.) Eagle. The celebrated advertising agency of S. M. Pettengill & Co. is one of the most colossal business institutions in the country, and its central office at 37 Park row, New York city, opposite the City Hall Park and the new Postoffice building, is an establishment a stranger ought to visit if he really desires to see all the lions when he visits Great Gotham. Mr. Pettengill, the head of the firm, was trained to his business under the “ master of the trade,” is a practical printer and publisher, is a man of high moral character, of marked business talent, and possesses the strictest honor and integrity. Hence in the quarter of a century —and a little more—that he has been in business he has built up the largest business of the kind in the country or the world. He began business in Boston in 1849; in 1852 he went to New York to start a second office, retaining his interests in liis Boston office, and since that time he has remained in New York. In 1873 he started a branch office in Philadelphia, which is a most successful institution, a great advantage to business men, though not by any means so large and important a business house as the New York agency. In all the time Mr. Pettengill has been in business he has seldom or never had a dispute with a customer or patron. Prompt in his payment to publishers, fully posted as to the needs of advertisers, possessing the confidence of all the publishers in the country, and of nearly all the business men who advertise, giving his business his constant personal attention, it is no wonder the firm, of S. M. Pettengill A Co. 6tand at the head of their business. And advertisers who would make the most of their money, who would be successful and prudent in their advertising, cannot do better than patronize the firm. Medical Advertising. —The medical profession are outspoken in their denunciation of the system of medical advertising, and declare that any medicine that is advertised is a fraud. Hqw thoroughly inconsistent and unfair is such an argument. The men who are so loud in their criticisms are those who advertise themselves as medical savans by ostentatious display; splendid residences with massive door-plates; fast horses and costly carriages; Dr. J. Walker, of California, an old practitioner, respected alike for his skill and conscientious independence, dares to differ; and having discovered in his Vinegar Bitters —a purely herbalistic medicine, free from all spirituous poisons—a wonderful specific for numerous disorders, advertises the same for the relief of his fellow-man, and is borne out in his declarations of its many virtues by thousands of invalids who are being cured of disease by its use. 27