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Show I uo RESOUKCEFUrj IMER CHANT GETS HIS THREAD ORDER LINCOLN, 111. John Lutz, Jr., is a resourceful mercantile dealer here. Lutz had been trying for several months to secure thread from a St. Louis Jobbing house. The thread market was really threadbare, leastwise, least-wise, so the jobbers said when Lutz got but 75 dozen spools from an order calling for 1,002 dozen. After three or four of euch allotments Lutz scratched scratch-ed his head and sat down and penned this note to the jobber: "Customer hero expecting baby next month. Unable Un-able sew for prospective Infant because be-cause inability buy thread. Please rush full amount order." It brought this reply: "Wo have your most unusual un-usual favor and under the extenuating extenuat-ing circumstances, and In view of tho fare facts before us, we havo robbed several customers of their rightful needs on old orders to give you preference pref-erence over every requisition in tho house." But Lutz was not satisfied. When tho shipment came in he sent this wiro to tho jobber: "It was triplets. trip-lets. Wo need more thread." |