Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1902 — Unprecedented Rush of Public Sales. [ARTICLE]

Unprecedented Rush of Public Sales.

There was never such a rush of public sales in this vicinity as that now prevailing. These are so numerous that Col. Phillips the auctioneer, is booked for about every available day, for weeks in advance. Heretofore, when there was a puplio sale in a neighborhood only once or twice in a coon’s age, they attracted about as much attention as a circus, and a small, plain and unobtrusive sale bill would draw as big a crowd as would a four sheet poster. Now there are so many different sales advertised, that the printers have to tax their engenuity to get up sale bills that will attract attention in the wilderness of other bills. Bigger bills, bigger type, pictures and colored ink are being used until public sale bills are almost as loud as the front page of the New York Journal in the Spanish war or the Chicago American during its Cedar Lake dead cat sensation.