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Show AINT IT THE TRUTH An editor and a merchant r.-ore discussing the value of advertising; in the local paper. The merchant contended that people did not read the pp.per, the editor was as sure that they did read it. After a lengthy conversation in which neither would give in, the men parted. The next week the merchant came tearing down the street to the newspaper news-paper office wanting to know why the obituary of his wife's mother was not in the paper, especially after af-ter he had taken the trouble to see that a copy was taken to he newspaper news-paper office. , ' "Well," said "he editor, "I thought you wanted the obituary read by the people, so I nailed it up in the post office." Dell Rapids Tribune. |