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Show Several w York Slgni. If one wants to be fully convinced that competition is the life of trade he need only take a walk over on the east side of town and read the signs on the shop windows: "Customers, attention! A glass of delicious soda water given free to each and every customer." This is what a Madison street druggist offers to attract custom to his place, and there are others like unto it. The composition and orthography of some of the signs are equally interesting. "Painters suplys" is the wording on a blue painted sign in front of a paint shop in Division street. 1 "Private Restaurant" in Hebrew He-brew and English letters is the way the signs read before a dozen eating saloons north of the Bowery and east of Grand street. "A Pure Carpenter" is the wording word-ing on a sign in Hester street. A., it is needless to state, stands for Abraham. There is no period after tho A and no comma after tho Pure. Now York Press. |