Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-10-31

Above are n part only of the publications
of the firm which arc offered to any one at
the list price. That the public may not
have to pay cXorbitant prices for our books
at any place, however remote, we circulate
IL price-list, and send it to school officials
everywhere with the following note
USE THE UNITED STATES MAIL. Any
book of the Eclectic Educational Series will
be sent postpaid to any address on receipt
of the list price aud One-siXth additional to
cover the %poStagcand cost Ofmailing. Add
cost of mailing to the list price and remit
with order.
If there is no dealer, OF iffrom any cause
u books IAN not be obtained at our mail
ing price, then order direct from us by mail.
On receipt of the wholesale price, we will
send our books by express or freight to any
address as ordered, the party making the
order to pay express or freight charges.
Remittances should be made by draft or
post Office order if practicable,
In order that wholesale dealers in school
books and the retailers of books may pur-
chase and sell our books at u fair price, we
sell to the trade at discount off the list
prices of from 10 to 165 per cent, according
to quantities ordered, location, and other
circumstances. 1t is now, and has always
been, our object to secure to the public the
lowest retail price for our publication.
Dealers purchase at a discount from our list
price and in many towns and cities, by
agreement with the Boards of Education,
consent to retail them at the list price, ac-
ceptiug the discount as their margin of
profit. Such is the case in Cincinnati, Gov
ingtOn, ~Cbillicothe, Cambridge, Gallon,
and many other places, while in other
towns they add to the list prices ten or
fifteen per cent, to increase their profit.
At these prices the Eclectic Series are the
cheapest books the dealer sells.
Under the law the Board ofEducation of
each city, town and township of Ohio has
full power to protect the citizens from any
and all unreasonable demands on the part
OF the dealer, either by deciding the prices
at which the adopted books may be sold.
or by ordering direct from the publishers,
at the contract prices, as provided by the
law. All Boards in the state are specifically
authorized by the law to purchase the
schoOl-bOoks at the contract prices, and
furnish them to pupils at cost; and also to
furnish them free to INDECENT pupils.
Any intelligent person who will take the
trouble TO make the comparison can readily
see that our publications, taken either at
these contract prices or at the wholesale list
prices, or at the usual retail prices, are
cheaper than any similar books published
in this or any other country, and much
cheaper than any other kind of books.
Wemanufacture our books economically.
and sell them at a reasonable profit; and on
the aggregate of our entire business, ex-
tended as it is over the entire Union. we
make our large investment about as re-
munerative as other business that is con-
Quoted with equal capital, skill, and energy.
We do not fear any honorable competition
we are quite willing that any number OF
competitors shall enter the field with us.
There Is no monopoly in school-bOoks
the trade In school-books is absolutely free.
Any one has the right to enter into the
publication or sale of such books. He may
make them as he likes, sell at any price he
chooses, and any school in this state that
approves them may usethem. The seventy
five firms engaged in the publication OF
school-bo0ks issue 80 series of readers, log
spoilers, 10 grammars, S9series ofarithme-
tics, "a series of Biographies % series o
copy-books. and a histOries-an applicants
for popular favor and approval, and all
claiming some peculiar excellence.
The Board Of each township district OF
independent district in the state may adopt
and use In the schools under their charge
any oneof the hundreds of schcoLbOoks