Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1897 — Keeps Birth Records. [ARTICLE]

Keeps Birth Records.

Novelties in advertising are not limited to America. In some of the foreign cities enterprising firms watch the papers carefully for records of births and promptly send the mother presents of soap or toilet articles. One London house, keeping its records careful!/, waits till the child Is a few years old and then sends out—the sex being noted —the following: “Madame, as your little child’s birthday aproaches, and, thinking that you may require some present for her in commemoration of the event, we inclose a catalogue of toys.”—New York Mail and Express.