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Show ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS BOX. r For sfemc weeks past the "Descrct Farmer" has been carrying advertise-ments advertise-ments for the California Fruit Products Pro-ducts Company of Colton, California offering to ship direct to the consumer, consum-er, freight prepaid, various assortments assort-ments of their fruit products, and especially es-pecially a "Christmas Box" of which they say: "The California Christmas Box is the latost California product and it is something entirely new, novel and original or-iginal it will be shipped, freight paid, to any railroadi station in the country, or to the Border for cxnort. This box contains the best California products fancy Figs, Prunes, Peaches, Apricots, Apri-cots, Muscatel Raisins, Seeded Raisins; Rais-ins; Canned Peaches, Pears, Plums, and Grapes; Soft Shelled Walnuts and Almonds; Orange-Sage Honey about 70 pounds. This is a Christmas Box that is something worth while and can be ordered of the California Fruit Products Company, Colton, California, Califor-nia, the originators and packers of this unique Christmas Box. They will nyiil 3 colored souvenir post cards and price list of their various assortments of Dricdt and Canned Fruits free to anyone who writes them, also to any friends' whose names you enclose." It is an extreme pleasure in this day of strenuous advertising for a publisher to be in position to absolutely abso-lutely verify a proposition put forth in his columns by an advertiser. In this instance wc arc accorded that pleasure. pleas-ure. Wc arc in receipt of a shipment of the fruit advertised' by the California Cali-fornia Fruit Products Company, and arc delighted to state that it is all of the best quality. Much of the dried fruit, when cooked, vies with the canned goods in freshness. The California Cali-fornia people arc a thoroughly responsible re-sponsible institution and it is a satisfaction satis-faction to be able to commend them to our readers. - . o |
