Manti Reporter | 1892-09-17 | Page 1 | Local News

Two rival dealers in an Ohio town made a run on corsets wit h bad results. The sale had been rnnnin g about a week ami every morning the papers announced a rednotion in corsets, nntil finally one morning they capped the climax by advertising ad-vertising they would sell that day at one cent. Then the women of the town eame In swarms, and In ah ho3r or two . became an angry mob of bargain hunters. hunt-ers. They broke show cases, einnters and windows, besides doing unmentionable unmention-able damage to each other's ilotUng, . and the proprietors were finally ? compelled com-pelled to close their doors in order to keep, them from killing each other. . After Af-ter the doors were closed one dealer threw corsets from a second-story window win-dow and the women scrambled in the street for themT . The poor travelling I man who strikes that town how with corsets td sell will have a poor chanc. Ex, . 1 :. :