The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17
GERMAN
AMERICAN.
Advance Agent Arrives with Adj
vertising Car Today.
BILL BOARDS, BLOOM
In All the GLORY OF the Lithographic Art.
Something about the Staff Of ply
sicians and Surgeons,

The splendidly equipped adverts-
ing car of the German-A merican staff
of Physicians and Surgeons and their
amusement organization, the German
American Vaudevilles, arrived in
lola today over the Santa Fe railroad.
The car is in charge of Mr.. w. H.
Hoskins, the advance agent, who has
with him a small army of bill posters
and distributors. A DAILY reporter
met Mr. Hoskins, whom we found to
De very pleasant gentleman, and
Mr.. Hoekins kindly permitted an in
spection of the car. The car is large
and well built, and in its interior ar
rangements is the finest advertising
car we ever laid eyes on. There are
lockers, drawers and shelves, 30 ar.
ranged that there is no waste space
in the entire car, and every recepta-
Gle is crammed full of advertising
matter Of every description, from cir
culars, dodgers and banners up to the
art for bill boards, etc.
In the center of the car is a cosy
office that reminded the reporter of
nothing so much as an ideal EDITORS
sanctum. Here Mr. Hoskins attends
to the large correspondence incident
to the management of such mana
moth advertising enterprise. There
is all of the necessary paraphernalia
for making paste in wholesale quanti-
ties, and in fact the car is supplied
with every needful accessory.
BY the time this notice appears, the
town will be ablaze with gorgeous
Autographs announc ing the coming
of the German-American specialists
and the German-American Vaude-
villes.
The Autograph printing is nearly
all in four colors and tints and must
certainly represent an enormous out
lay of money. None of the great
shows cover the bill boards more
thoroughly with their photographic
printing, and this company does not
stop when our city is billed, but sends
its advertising men to the nearby
towns and through all the surround
ing country, covering every available
space with their bills. When it is con-
siuered that the stones alone, not in
GLIDING the printing, from which one
sheet Of Autograph work is printed,
cost 500 and upward, and there are
five hundred different sheets, it will
be readily seen that the figures for the
whole outlay runs up to tremend-
Gus total.
The question arises in the minds of
our citizens is: "What must be the
magnitude of the enterprise that is
heralded by all this Advertising"
There must be lot of money behind
If. Indeed, from information gained
through Mr.. Hoskins, we are able to
state positively that such is the case.
The company has its own special
train of four cars, one Of which is the
private car occupied by Prof J. Y. r.
Clarke, head of the German-American
staff of Physicians and Surgeons, and
his beautiful and accomplished wife
and which is fitted up with greater
elegance than most of the cars owned
by railroad presidents. One car car
Ies the splendid surgical equipment
of the staff, which includes two of the
wonderful X ray machines, commute
er, microscopes, electrical apparatus
of every conceivable description, and
the finest operating chairs made. An
other car, which is 50 feet long and
by reason of lite great length is sci
on trucks that move on pivots, fol-
turning curves, carries the scenery
and stage settings of the German.
American Vaudevilles. There is NJ
vaudeville company on the road thai
carries so many performers, and III
people are chosen from the ranks o
those who stand highest in the pro
fession.
In answer to the reporter
question, Mr.. Hoskins stated tina
there were forty-three people in tn
entire organization. Continuing h
said: "At Chanute where the German
American staff of Physicians ant
Surgeons and the German-Ame
Vaudevilles now are, our engagement
has been very successful Tn
specialists have been kept busy boil
night and day attending to the want
of their patients, and the papers ther
have recorded many remarkabl
cures. Ifyou will take the trouble t
communicate with any of your friend
there, you will find that the German
American specialists are doing
grand work and that their efforts ar
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