The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-09-24
They Get in Their Work on
Knoxville Advertisers.
Johnson City Firms, no Doubt, Were
Also Taken in.
Advertising Solicitors Propose to Print
Twenty Thousand Edition of the
Worlds Fair Advocate.

Fake advertising solicitors, probably
hailing from Chattanooga, have been
doing up Knoxville business men. The
Tribune Of that city Justly scores
them.
The Tribune says:
Knoxville has been caught by an
other advertising swindle. This time
it has come in the shape of the
"Worlds Fair Advocate" Knoxville
Edition Knoxville busints IS men have
been robbed of several hundred good
dollars and have nothing but a few
hundred copies OF "fake" publication
to show where their money went.
A few weeks ago couple OF glib
tongued young men claimed to repre-
sent a great magazine published in
Chicago, interviewed nearly all the
business firms OF Knoxville, They
proposed to give splendid illustrated
write up OF Knoxville in this great
Chicago Magazine. They promised
that the matter about Knoxville and
the Knoxville advertisements should
be pushed in one entire edition Of "the
great magazine" with circulation Of
10000 copies.
The brilliant journalists went to
work with scissors and paste, and in a
few hours had compiled from old
copies Of the Knoxville newspapers a
pretty fair write up of the city. 1t is
such an article as any Knoxville news
paper man could sling together in an
hour. The illustrations" to accom-
pany the article are such old
cuts as could be picked up around
town, and which have already
done service half dozen times in
various publications. The remainder
OF the time of these travelling journal
lists was spent in soliciting advertise
ments, in writing up business firms
and taking orders for the "magazine
at ten cents copy. Orders were
taken from one hundred and eight
Knoxville firms.
Yesterday the magazines" were de-
livered They are already familiar tc
one hundred and eight firms in Knox
vile. The paper has sixteen pages
each page half as large as u page oI
this mornings Tribune. That is, the
magazine" is exactly the size of this
mornings Tribune.
Four of the pages are devoted to The
Knoxville "write up" and the Other
twelve to advertising. The paper il
not dated, though the first page ha'
these words:
KNOXVILLE EDITION.
Volume 2, No "a, Chicago, Ill, price
10 cents.
WORLDS FAIR ADVOCATE 1S93
Perhaps is hardly necessary to stat
that there is no such newspaper, il
Chicago. There are indications tina
the "Magazine" was printed in Chatta
nooga.
Now for the swindlel
There are now before us two coppie
of the Knoxville Edition Of tn
Worlds Fair Advocate"
They are not alike!
From one of them twenty-five of tn
Knoxville advertisements have bee
' omitted to make room for two Chat;
nooga advertisements and four othe
Knoxville advertisements.
From the other copy six advertise
ments, one OF them a half page ad
have been omitted to make room fc
others.
Here are at least tlirty-one of til
10S advertisers who have bee
swindltd by being cut out of n porto
of the edition.
Other copies of the magazine" ma
differ from the. two copies we hay
seen. The chances are that the 9th,
seventy-seven advertisers have bee
swindled by the omission Of their "ads
from portions of the edition.
OF the 10000 copies OF this fall