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Show AINT IT THE TRUTH An editor and a merchant were discussing i the - value of advertising in the local paper. The merchant contended that people did not read the paper, 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 the news-' paper office. '-"' "Well," said the editor, "I thought you wanted the obituary -read by the people, so I nailed it up in the post office." Ex, ..,-".' |