The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-12-17
THE QUAKER
GEL-ATINE PRIZES
The Hustling Firm Of Kelley &
Dudley Are Distributing
a. 5000 of Prize Money.

Messrs. Kelley & Dudley, merchandise
brokers and manufacturers agents. Of
No. 1000 and 1oll East Cary Street, arc
among our most progressive business
men In the city, Though they have been
in business together only nine years.
they are to-day in the front rank In
their llne,I and represent Some Of the
largest and best known houses In the
United States. Both arc young mon,
not yet forty years Of age, but are brim-
full Of uslness. and owing to their repu-
tntion, business sagacity and facilities
for introducing new products to the
grocery TRADE, their services are often
solicited by foreign manufacturers and
dealers. They believe in advertising, and
r.aver hesitate to place behind any first
class article they attempt to introduce
sun' cient advertising to thoroughly place
1t before the public. feeling assured that
tho merit of tho goods will suffice to
hold its own after a proper Introduction
They handle to-day a volume Of business
and have connections from New York
10 New Orleans, and penetrate consldera.
BILE Of the West.
They have introduced some of the most
popular goods now used here. and are
at present actively engaged in the intro
ductlon Of "Guakor Gelatine," and. to
quote them, they say. I'VE intend to
make the Quaker Gelatinc as famous as
rhe Fox River Butter. which has a
Worldwide reputation, and which, you
Know, we introduced here"
They have also introduced on this mar
ket, besides the products Of the Fox
River Butter Company who, by the
way, claim to be the largest producers of
rure butter In the world, the famous five
cent package Of Brazil Shred Cocoanut,
manufactured by the Franklin Baker
Company OF Philadelphia; the Yellow
stone Park Cigar, one of the best nickel
cigars made III the writer Is any judge
OF a good smoke, and he is an nvetorate
gmoker); the J. L. NJ. Flour, an exception
ally high grade patent winter-wheat
flour, made in the "Blue Grass State,
and which has an enormous s0le, as woll
as the famed Hummer Soap, which,
in its day, had n powerful run, and which
they advertised mostly In verse, written
nv n member of the firm. one adj OF
which the writer yet remembers as run
ming. thus:
".rhe qualIty's up, the prio, is down,
And Hummer Soap now rules the town"
Many other first-class articles have
been introduced hero by this enterprlsing
firm which cannot be enumerated at tho
moment. AT this time they are pushing
tie Quaker Gelatine, and rs they are In
this instance, MS with other things, giving
It n wide circulation, 1t Is evident that
.oualar Gelatne" has become in impor-
tant factor III the table cuisine.
In our Interview with Messrs. Kelley
& Dudley, they report having sold sew
eral large consignments since their first
advertisement and they claim that from
now until Christmas the consumption OF
this article should greatly increase as
the holidays draw near They say that
tha denl they nre now making on tho
Quaker Gslatine Is the best they have
vet offered. There will be $500 distributed
on December Goth to tho twenty-elght
ipersons who turn In the largest number
IT coupons, The prizes range from slc0,
the first prize down to ", the lowest
prize. In addition to this, they Offered a
graphophone to the person sending In
the largest numtar Of coupons to date Of
November osth. This handsome present
las been awarded and delivered, as here
tofore recorded. They also solicit the
GOOD will OF tina grocer BY offering to
| them four prizes, aggregating sos, for
tho four best window displays made
With Quaker Gelatlne,
vet TO follow, hessrs, KelLsy & Dudley
would not say Would only say that
II there were others they. would notify
The public through tho papers, MS they
have done previously. They did say, how-
ever, that they anticipated something
further that would be novel and inter-
| esting. and they advise everybody to
save up the Quaker Gelatinc coupons
end to mail thsm to the Interstate Chem
cal Company, Baltimore Md, who are
;he manufacturers Of this article, not
riter than the 18th or this month. so as
| IA have chance OF winning some one
Of the prizes offered. The drafts are
mado out already and are on exhibition
IN the window OF Rothert & Company,
pourth and Broad Streets. and will be
raid out on the Goth of December to the
| lucky winners, by Messrs. Kelley s.
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