The Portland daily press., 1882-12-15
w E o w 8 Mo.
The Foreman Explains HE Advertising
Contracts
Laramie Boomerang.l

A tall, pleasant-looking gentleman, with
quick, restless eyes, and the air OF a man who
had been in newspaper office before, dropped
into the Boomerang science department yester-
day and asked the pale, scholarly blossom who
sat writing an epic on the alarming preva-
lence of pip and its future as national evil, if
be could be permitted TO read the Deseret
News.
The scientist said Certainly" and after
long. weary tussle got the Mormon plaque out
of the ruins.
81 dsed to be foreD an of the Deseret News"
said the gentleman with the penetrating eyes,
81 worked on the News two years. and had
case on the Tribune. I've been foreman of
81 papers during my life, but my most unfor-
tunate experience was on the Deseret News
/ wanted the paper Just now to see If thew
we're still running an adj that l had some
trouble with when | was there.
1t was contract we had with DIR. Balshaz-
ger to advertise his Blue Eyed Forget-Me-Not
Perfume, DR.. Balshazzer's Red Tar Worm Bus
ter, and DIR. Balshazzer's Baled Brain Food and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Blue Eyed
Forget-me-Not Perfume was to go solid in long
primer, following pure reading matter cod in
daily aud eowtf weekly. The Red Tar Worm
Buster was to go in nonpariel loaded 1921, Tth
Fth9Sweow3mo. and repeat, and the Baled
Brain Food and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
oil was a six-inch electrotype to go in on third
page following pure, original humorous matter
with six full head lines d&weodoct9tf, set in
reading type similar to copy, these to be in
serted between pure religious news, with no
other advertising within four miles of the
electro or the reading notices.
At the same time we were running old
Monkeywrenche's Kidney Scraper on the same
kind of a contract. The business manager did
not remember this when we took the contract
so that as soon as we began to run the two
there was q collision between the Tulurockand
grandchildren and Kidney Scraper right off.
l spoke to the business manager about it and
he was puzzled. He didn't exactly know
what it was best to do under rhe circumstances,
still he hated TO lose old Balshazzers whole
trade, for be wouldn't run any of his ads I'M
less we would take them all according to his
contract
We tried to get him to let us run the Blue
Eyed Forget Perfume Iapr9dS5 w1yd
eod&w1y10-2i-eowdtf the Red Tar Worm
Buster do neutrality-suspicious., and the
Brain Food and TuurockaDdrveandc
mch1S*1y jun4dtf &daug18@ge 81 &Sylds3OtfSsrs
peod$, but he wouldn't do it.
displayed his ad. top of column adjoining
humorous column, with three line leaders and
astonisheIs without advertising marks or signs
according to copy, and instructions to foreman,
all omissions or wrong insertions to be charged
tothe paper at double rates, readers to be scat
tered thr ugh telegraph and editorial, the daily
and weekly papers to be sent to advertising
agents and proprietors of remedies and their
relatives tt; the paper agreeing to take no 9TH
er advertisements from anybody else, and tried
the best knew how to satisfy him, but it was
no go. He stuck for his contract.
Most every day he would write to the pub.
fishers that his ad. was NOT in position and that
the paper was running up an awful bill for for
feiture and failure to comply with terms of
agreement.
"The business man would come into the
composng-room and give me thunder about it,
and would try to explain to him till my brain
acned. Finally DIR. Belshazzer brought suit
against the paper for 200 damages and $500
for forfei ure on the scale of double value of
gross contract price, with other little etceteras
l was discharges, but retained under bonds as
witness on the trial. couldn't give no bonds,
SO | went to Jail pending the trial. The case
was continued until the next year and then
L went up to testify.
said on oath that as near as I can remember
the electros were to go 4eedd1ytf8mdsieodfrsc
&wk1yJan 30sfd&Z. q. M. l., and that the
readers were TO be scattered through our con-
Unned story or in among the sermons of John
Taylor, and that we were to mark them docob-
s. 1850 .tfrsyp&s*, and that they vera to be dou-
BILE loaded and headed with italic caps. Still
said IL had been some time since saw the con-
tract, and had been suffering with brain few
er six months in jail, and possibly nay memory
might be defective. would go over it again
and see if was right
"The electropbones were to be blown in
the bottle and The readers were to be set in
lower case slugs with guarantee of good faith
and Rough on Rats would not die in the house.
Use Pinkhams Sozodont for itching, freckes,
bunions and Group. 1t saved my life. NY
good woman Why are you bilious wi EN- quads
In solid minion. Ureka, Jumbo baking DOW
der will not crack or fade in any climate sent
on three months trial in loaded BREWER uuoins
and all wool column rules warranted to cure
rheumatism and army worms or money refund
ed. 10 be adjoinin miscellany or fancy brass
dashes marked eodsyld&w* !*?"--
At this moment dark brown man came in
and told us that the young man was his charge
and on his way to Mount Pleasant asylum for
the insane, and that we should have to excuse
the intrusion. After subscribing for the paper
and asking us if we had heard from Ohio, he
went away.
The scientist said afterward that he found il
difficult to follow the young man in some of
his statements, and that he was just going to
ask him TO go over that again and say it slower.
when the Mount Pleasant man came in and
interrupted the flow of conversation.