The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-11-13
Fortunes made by Advertising.

From small pamphlet, entitled "The Art of
making Money" an extract has been taken, and
is going the rounds of the provincial press,
pointing out the facility of making immense
sums, by the simple process of continuous ad-
vertisng. Doubtless large sums have been. are.
and will be made by such system by certain
persons of ability, who no doubt would make
their way in the world. if called upon TO play
different parts on the great stage of life but to
suppose that men in general must as matter
OF course acquire wealth by such means, is as
absurd as to imagine that all the penniless and
shoeless OF London are capable Of rising to the
dignity and wealth of an alderman or the Lord
Mayor of London simply by reading the "Young
Mans Best Companion" Money is not so cast
ly made as the writer of the article referred to
would lead people to suppose; if it be so, few
need be poor. But to our text: fortunes made
by advertising Undoubtedly the greatest man
OF the day as an advertiser is Holloway, who
expends the enormous sum of twenty thousand
pounds annually in advertisements alone his
name is not only to be seen in every paper and
periodical published in the British Isle but as
II this country was too small for this individu
ais exploits, he stretches over the whole of In
dia, having agents in all the different parts of
the upper, central. and lower provinces of that
immense country, publishing his medicamcnts
III the HindOo, OordOo. GOoZratee. and other
native languages, so that the Indian public can
take the pills and use his ointment according to
general directions, as Cockncy would do with
in the sound of Bow Bells. We find him again
at Hong Kong and Canton, making his medi-
cincs known to the Celcstials by means of a
Chinese translation. We trace him from thence
to the Sandwich and Philippine Islands, where
ne is circulating his preparation in the native
languages AT Singapore he has large depot:
his agents there supply all the islands in the
indian Seas. His advertisements are published
in most of the papers at Sydney, Hobart Town,
Launceston, Adelaide, Port Philip, and indeed
IN almost every town of that vast portion Of the
British Empire. Returning homcwards, we tnd
his Pills and Ointment selling at Valparaiso.
Lima. CallaO and other ports in the Pacific
Doubling the Horn, we track him in the Allan
tic-Mont V;dao, Buenos Ayres, Santos, Rio de
Janelro, Bahia, and PernambucO; he is adver-
tising in those parts in Spanish and Portuguese.
In all the British West India Islands, as also in
the Upper and Lower Canadas, and the neigh
boring provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brun-
swick, his medicines are as familiarly known
and sold by every druggist. as they are at home.
In the Mediterranean, We find them selling at
Malta, Corfu, Athens, and Alexandria, besides
at Tunis and other portions OF the Barbary
States. Any one taking the trouble to look at
the Journal and Courier of Constantinople may
find in these, as well as other papers, that llol
loway' medicines are regularly advertised and
selling throughout the Turkish Empire and
even in Russia, where an almost insurmOunta-
BILE barrier exists, the laws there prohibiting the
entree of patent medicines HolOway,s ingenu-
ity has been at work. and obviates this difficult
ty by forwarding supplies to his agent at Odcs-
sa, port situated on the Black Sea, where they
filter themselves surreptitiously by various
channels into the very heart of the Empire
Africa has not been forgotten by this indefati
gable man, who has an agent on the river Gam
bia; and also at Sierra Leone, the plague spot
OF the world, the Inhabitants readily avail them
selves of the Ointment and Pills; thus we can
show our readers that Holloway has made the
complete circuit of the globe. commencing with
India, and ending. as we do. with the Cape of
Good Hope, where his medicines are pull
in the Dutch and English languages: and while
speaking OF Dutch, we have heard that he has
made large shipments to Holland, and is about
advertising in every paper or periodical pub
lshed in that kingdom; we night add that he
has also started his medicines in some ports of
France; in some portions of Germany; as also
in some of the Italian statcs.--LOndon Pictorial
Times.