The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-10-10
srEAnY nEMANp FoR NAMEs.

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Good Ones Bring Cash and the TFafic IL
Extensive.
The market for M mes has frmed up
wonderfully since the days when lago
said there was nothing in them. Chi
cago is one of the biggest manipulating
centers in the country. There are a
great number of concerns, large N
small, in the city which are engaged in
this traffic. With some of thea the
name business is a kind of side line in
connection with a clipping bureau.
One of the largest has confined itself
mainly to names of business houses OF
various kinds, which are furnished to
other business houses for advertising
purposes. The quotations for names
of this character range all the way
from $1.25 to IS per 1000, depending
upon the number of concerns engaged
in the particular line for which the
names are desired and the time and
trouble required in securing them.
The bicycle business has grown to
be n of such f~ar-reRching influence
that newspaper clipping bureaus, both
in Chicago and in the east, publish a
sheet nce a week giving a list of all
the bicycle factories reported since the
last issue. As might be imagined, this
business presents a number Of curious
phases, and clipping bureaus frequent
~ get all sorts of queer orders from
people who want the names of persons
who are likely to be interested in some
given subject or article. For a long
time n of the clipping bureaus had q
standing order from a manufacturer of
artificial limbs for the names of all
who might lose their legs or arms in
accidents. Another man, a maker Of
artificial eyes, takes the names of
everyone who has lost an eye.
Another man, n baby carriage manu-
f%acturer in Michigan. takes the names
of all newly-wedded couples, and in due
course of time forwards a very neat
pamphlet describing and illustrating
his goods.
People doing a mail order businer;
sometimes sell to other concerns nCt
in a competing line the names whici
they accumulate. The advertisemeP
of n of these reads: 1--WE have severn
thousand mail order names received
with cash within a few months" NameI
Of people who are in the habit of ordeR
ing goods by mail and accompanying
the order with cash have an obviG u
value.
The secretaries of associations of , q.
certain character have their lives mad
miserable by constant requests for n
list of their members. The Western
Hay Fever association furnished a nota.
bic case. No doubt there are some 200.
coo unfortunates in the United States
who begin to sneeze about the 1st OF
August and keep it up at pretty regular
intervals until frost comes. The mum.
Der of philanthropists who would like
to cure them of the maIady is almost
as numerous as the sufferers them.
selves, and each one is anxious for these
names for the purpose of presenting
his particular nostrum.
Repeated instances in the history oil
Chicago burglaries go 10 indicate THAI
professional housebreakers keep wei
informed as to the movements of peo-
pie who have jeweiry TO steal, and when
ever the plans for a new mansion are
published the information is carefully
noted for future reference. There NAV
be n private news agency which fur
nishes burglarious intelligence of this
character, but il there is it does not
advertise.-Chicago Tribune.