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Show w " 1 I. ill. El) TO CATCH OS. A OlticafO Newspaper Man Who Needed No Tonie. Detroit Free Tress, He walker! into a Chicago newspaper office confidently and took n seat. "Arc yon the manager ?" he askod briskly. 'What can I do for JTOttT' replied the newspaperman in a non-committal tone. "I'm a patent medicine tnattnfncturet, Yonr paper has a pretty wide circulation, hasn't it ?" "Wide!" 'the newspaper man swung round iii liis chair. "Wide! I should say bo. We have, a circulation creator by two to one than any other papier in the stale a sworn circulation, sir, of 100,O00 copies daily, and it's a paid circulation, too, ami we reach the families, sir. Our paper is read by 500,000 people every day, and w hen you consider that our advertising rates are-well, are-well, they are. so low that we. are going to advance 'em 80 per cent right after the irst, I don't exaggerate in the least, sir, when I say that we offer positively the best advertising adver-tising medium In the Tinted States. Why, you i-an see for yourself what the results must be from an ad placed before 8,900,000 people every week, and where are you o-FllgT" o-FllgT" "Oh, 'round town a little," replied the stranger, putting on his hat. "The article t make is a nerve medicine, and I came in to sell you a bottle, but. 1 see you don' t need It." |