Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-11-10

Big Four Family Combination-Rheu
matte Cure. Blood Food, Nerve Tonic
and Magic Liniment-four big bottles
cost me nineteen cents, filled and la
5eled-that'll gather in every half
dollar in jay town. The spiel that
carries that framed it up myself
say, it's a dream, believe it'd go here
IL New England. One o. these days
I'm planning to throw in about six
cents worth more alcohol into the
four bottles, and strike for the prohibit
ton regions.
We'll, as l was insinuating, fifty
cents is a good deal of money. It's
safer TO have a twenty-five cent line
ten cents is safer still, and you'll
strike some forsaken places-or even
pretty live towns, betw cen pay-days-
where a nickel speciality is the best
you can do. generally go loaded for
all of EN-; and say, it's amazing. the
difference you'll find between towns
in up-to-dateness, | can name yor
places where the return ball is a sure
seller yet, and where whistling bal
looms. that you can buy for dollar and
a half gross, would bring a dime if a
han's conscience would let him
charge it. There are Southern vii.
lagos where, seems like, they're suffer
ing for paper caps, just such dinky it.
tie bits of foolishness as YOU pull out
Of bonbons. The safest stock in the
South, though, is printed fortunes,
with photographs of your future hus-
band or wife. The fortunes cost sew
enty-five cents q thousand and the
photographs cost 81 thousand
Wrap UP one of each with a little
cake of soap. and it'll do your heart
good to see the dimes come in.
The combination package goes well
in the South, too. Say you put in a
sOngbook that costs YOU three-qUar-
ters of cent; a look-back, that shows
what's going on behind and beside
you; a whistling balloon; the fortune
and the photograph, with cake OF
soap that you call corn salve if you
work the town the second night; a pa
per hat; book of recipes; a key
chain and a piece Of jewelry. The
lot fglv-es uo eleven cents, and it's
good for twenty-five. Speaking of
iewelTy-you can get an assortment.
$50 bang-up pieces, for S5-reminds
me that you don't want to specialize
on that. in the South, anywhere but In
colored settlement. The white
folks take it too seriously. | knew a
smart Aleck from Cincinnati went
down into North Georgia with buggy
load of brass and glass, and did land
office business for three nights. The
fourth night his first customers, thai
he'd left nearly fifty miles back in the
hills, reappeared on the scene and
they made him give back the money
aud swallow the goods. Not any OF
that for me! I'd be afraid the breast
pins would scratch as they went
down"
For a moment l strove, to divert the
flood of Renaissance. why aren't
You in st. Louis operating a conces-
sion at the Fair?" | asked.
Cant see anything in it, my friend
the fakir responded seriously. "Firs,
place, concessions cost money. Next,
there's too much competition--on the
outside, / mean. With the hotels and
restaurants choking people and taking
it away from EN-, there's nothing left
for an artist who prefers to coax 'em
into giving up of their own accord.
| won't play the strong-arm game, and
il looks to me that that's the st. Louis
fashion. Besides, ! don't need St,
Louis. Talk about your fairs, here's
n list Of more than 700-fifty-six o.
EN- right here in New England-that
take place between July and Novem
Der in different parts of this great and
glorious country, and all that smar,
route and get busy. Chances ar
that, what with the fairs and the
beaches, and good old Boston to fall
back upon. III be working in these six
States until snow flies"
Selling medicine?" | suggested.
Later in the season, maybe. A
medicine spiel doesn't seem to go in
hot weather, somehow, unless you
have some kind of a sideshow to help
hold the crowd The Indian medi
cine men have spoiled people for
straight business. I'd have to hire a
fellow who picks a banjo and sing
comic song, anyway, and If ever got
as far as that into the show business
might 20 farther and bury tent.
have thought some of animals" my
friend admitted, rather difndenf,y, II
seemed.
"Animals?"
"Uh-huh," he nodded Say, do you
realize that you can buy an eightfoo.
python for $40, AMI a staving big al
gator for $3.50 Yes. ] know they
amt animals. but they're suahez-e-
is an alligator a fish? Well anyhow,
you can get leopards or lions, or cats,
or pumas for $50 apiece. and mon
keys for $3.50 Up. and you might be
able to turn a trick, some kind Of