| Show advertising racketeers our town may not have the bloodthirsty blood thirsty who flourish in in the underworld of the great cities but there is nevertheless a class of racketeers who have their eyes on this tin s city and are continually slipping in and going out with a generous amount of coin for their meager efforts nie aie deiy few more har personages in the land than the country merchant he is systematically co aed teased cajoled and browbeaten brow beaten by these racketeers who are looking for cas easy money into taking on oil their a ad iver ver fakes and these thes se schemes are without end in number and I 1 in in the tha main practically all without advertising value they range from railroad time cards hotel registers cafe ii menus ienus doorknob hangers so called booster er write ups to almost every kind of bologna tile the mind of human can conjure several years ago illuminated sign boards with changing pictures wele placed along roads adjacent to the city cars whizzing along at 40 to 60 had a lot of spare time to lead these advertisements verti if they did take their eyes off the road they merely flirted flirted with the ditch a turn i over or it a smashup smash up then there came a bunch that sold advertising on oil cards with the order of services of churches I 1 they athey told the advertisers the lacall local church was hard pressed for cash I 1 and had asked them to help them out the church got 75 cards that were never used tile the printer got 5 and the fakers bakers netted for their profits I 1 I 1 the slicker with the circus shell game has nothing on these baid I 1 when it comes to their con games scores of times since coming to this city we have been approach 1 cd ad by these fakirs fakiri and of offered ferett jucy plums if we would operate cooperate co with them in their schemes and we have invariably turned them away we turned them avay because in practically every case there j as no advertising value in what they had to off offer er because their charges I 1 to the prospective customer tomer were outrageous and mainly because they were fakirs fakiri or in in more modem parlance lacket ears there are home activities which must be supported but the aie next L time one of these so called racketeers drops into town and to devoice you from your much nee need ed ad cash show him in tile the gate n nl matter what kind of advertising he is selling if you have any doubt as to the probable pio probable bable advertising value afi of the proposition these fellows offer offar consult your local publisher who in iii many instances had tile the opportunity to analyze the graf grafts ts before they were offered to you and at the end of the year your bank balance will be more suo sub because you passed up their fakes leader pipestone minnesota I 1 |
