The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-09-28
Advantages of Advertising

The New York Tribune thus sets forth the ad-
vantages of making ones wants known by adver.
tisements in a newspaper:
elf you want house, there is no need of run
ming all over the city, incommodiDg hundreds OF
families by long Iist Of questions, or by overrun-
ming their rooms. If you want a house, write a
brief description of such a one as you would like
and advertise it. You will not wait long before
the house will to you; and thus you will save
time, strength, and annoyance TO yourself and
others.
elf you have a house TO let, bill at the door
may be seen by hundred persons in day; an
advertisement in the Tribune will be seen In the
period by hundred thousand. therefore,
advertise; for nine out Of ten who want houses
seaI CHI the newspapers hrst
elf you want a servant, advertise just you
would for house, stating what qualifications you
require, &C. Then, instead of bunting through
the town and getting poor stick at last. you may
sit still and select from those who will call upon
you the very one you wanted.
elf you want a place as servant. apprentice, or
iourneyman, don't wander day after day from
house to house and chop to chop but. for the mere
trife charged for such notices, tell the whole world
what you can do, and where you can be found.
Your days of idleness will soon be numbered Men
don't go about hunting up laborers; they lsok In
the morning papers, and save themselves the time
and the trouble Of travel.
"If you want board, you need not stop at hun
dred doors to be told that they are full, or climb
uncounted stairs to find that the rooms don't suit.
Advertise; tell what rooms and prices and location
YOU desire, and the next day open your answers
and take choice of dozen frst-t ate places.
"Tboee who want boarders scarcely need advice;
they have long since ceased to depend upon friend
ly Recommendations and door, plates but they
might improve in their notices by more particular
explanation Of their accommodations, prices, &c.
:If you wish to sell more goods this year than
YOU ever did before, advertise more. The unparal-
leled success of those merchants and traders who
have kept their names and their goods before the
people, is lesson not to be disregarded by any one
who depends upon public patronage for a living.
The best customers those who find out what
they want before they leave home, and these are
the oncs who invariably look in the newspaper to
see where the article ia to be found.
eff you want steamboat or poodle dog, a
thousand laborers an errand boy; if you want
any thing whatever that you do not know just
where to find, do not choose to run after, adver
tse your wants, and ninety nine timcs in a hun.
dred you will be gladly served at your door far
cheaper and better than by any other known pro.
.
"The daily newspaper is the established medi-
um of exchange between mind and mind in re-
gard to nearly all the wants of life, and its useful
ness is extending among all classes with surprising
rapidity. Everybody reads the morning paper,
from the millionaire his coffee to the African
who has Just polished his honor's boots-and nc
part of the paper gives so fresh, varied and COM
prehensive pictures of the city and the age as the
advertisements -"