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Show SOME DISHONEST ! PRACTICES CITED How Stores in Lure C-ities Advertise Ad-vertise Rare (?) liurp-ains to Catch Trade. Worthless Goods are Sold, and Other Goods at High Prices Must He Purchased. "Such wonderful bargains!" They certainly sell things rhcap-r elsewhere than here!" "Look at the price only 1(1 ecu' , and our merchants want 50 cents for the same thing!" What woman reading the sale ad- , m-i tisemeuts of the department atres i in the larger cities, and comparing j prices with the prices the local merchant mer-chant asks, has not said the .-nn thing? Hut when the true facts of each so-called bargain come to light, it is found to be u myth and a delusion. Two instances of this were recently investigated, to see if the stores advertised ad-vertised honestly. One store advertised an article for 10 cents, which is sold almost universally uni-versally for B0 cents. One was purchased, pur-chased, and proved to be worthless, as it was torn and had holes in it. e the article was intended to shed water and must be holeproof to be of va'ue, the money was lost. Upon demand to refund the money paid for the article, as it was worthless, the store refused to come thrcugh. Another store advertised a big bur gain in jelly glasses. The price was very low, much lower than any merchant mer-chant could afford to sell jelly glasses for. When an attempt was made to purchase, pur-chase, it was found that other goods must be bought to an equal amount. This method of stimulating trade is in violation of the rules of the Federal Fed-eral Trade Commission, which has slopped this sort of thing by the mail OratT houses as unfair competition in advertisin;: something below cost, and then putting strings to the purchnse The country local merchants can not attempt to do these things, as the good will of their customers must be retained. Their goods must be worth one hundred cents on the dollar. It is always well to take all these so called bargains with a grain of salt, and look for the colored g.-ntle-man in the woodpile. The best policy is to buy of the reliable re-liable horn' merchant, who treats you fairly, honestly, and wants your put-ronage. put-ronage. Hargains (?) from away from home will only prove a delusion and a snare. The country merchant and dealer in turn can help kill this evil by hon-et hon-et advertising in their home town paper and thus counteract any attempt at-tempt of the larger city stores to discredit dis-credit their prices. This paper is willing to help. This is the fifth of a series of arti-clea arti-clea on the country weekly newspaper, its aims, needs and use to the community. com-munity. The next article will appear in an early number of The Record. m |