Ogden Morning Examiner and Morning Standard | 1909-02-21 | Page 14 | American Press Agent Outdone

AMERICAN PRESS AGENT OUT OUTDONE OUTDONE OUTDONE DONE The versatile T American press ss agent has hll been And oh so 50 simply almi I With a s little note noto that set eel all aU Ger Germany maui many agog agop nn an obscure book bool bookseller of or 1 Berlin marie made atie an equal obscuro novel the thc of o the tho six lx best sellers sellen of the th day dRY He has baa hoaxed half bait 1 a mil mU Jion people getting 2 from esc c of them tb m The 1 he plan was wan WR unique Hun ti of o thousands of lr handwritten no were w sent nent through mails Inform fl recipients re that the writer had harl r ro read a novel entitled Double Doubler r Yi e l LU H LUH 2 d r rL p Morality and it was vas hinted d that the I book bool implicated tho receiver of the card in a disgraceful scandal 1 J 1 u writer asked cd whether whet 1 r or not the poi pel son addressed d would others 01 also ito ra in prosecuting the writer and publisher of 0 the hook book These The notes were sent to cabinet ministers rs Eov gov officials military mn soon m n om mol moi chants lawyers frs rs university women wo on actors cl ch and and mapy mall other classes of p They The wore were written on delicate blue cor car ree cards ards that appeared to have ben been sent by b a n friend of the tao re r Three e hundred thousand of or the cards wore were w rc delivered to p in Berlin and the tho remaining vero sent to Hamburg Homburg Col Cologne Cologne Dresden n airl an l other Gei German man cites cH s They Involved husbands antI and anI wives in lii controversies mid find everywhere creat crent created ed ell Ct a Profound sensation Those who bo boI I TO re r innocent of wrongdoing and w 1 It verc ei e and those who ou Lu not net so 50 innocent nt wore ere by b thoughts of self preservation Every Everyone Everyone one rushed to the tho bookshops lo to oh ob obtain tain tam copies copieR of tho the novel They Tho found then that thoy had been duped lJ d for fOI forthe forthe the nOel was ins a trashy story a hank back backstairs stairs romance and Involved d no 11 II liv v J i i r 7 l 1 ing person in tn an any scandal The pub published lI hed wan located in Munich and was arrested lie He says 38 hIs hib hI advertising cost 6 What his were sero may b he bo ascertained hv In subtracting this amount from Crom times 2