Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-15
NOTICES POUR
IN ON WIGGINS
EAGER FOR PROSPERITY AND
TEN DOLLAR PRIZE
SUGGESTIONS RECEIVED UP TO
FIVE O'CLOCK SATURDAY
Great Ingenuity Manifested in DeVis-
ina Battle Cry to Be Placed on
Buttons to Boom Home
Products

her of commerce yesterday IN response
TO the offer of a reward of $40 for the
best battle cry" for Home FrouucIs
and Prosperity Week"
Virgins contained clever and noVel
ideas for the words to be placed upon
the 100000 buttons that Will adVertse
the industrial crusade.
Suggestions will be accepted until
o'clock next Saturday afternoon, When
the publicity committee Will take up
the question of deciding which one is
best and who is the champion phrase
coiner" of Southern California.
Many of the Prosperity yells' sent
in Yesterday are unique. Here are a
few taken at random:
TRY them-if your neighbours goods
are good-buy them."-Janie B. Jones,
Highland park.
Hone products best, we know by
test; buy and try, you'll not decry =
Mrs William +. Tate, 1913 Girard
street.
"Prosperity-now and always-f you
buy goods made here. Walter Ray
mond, Hotel Raymond.
MAKE easily, eat heartily sleep
soundly-Los Angeles. George H.
Pasis, S27 Grand avenue.
Tag me for home products. Il. A.
Y. F., Los Angeles.
terest is yours-use home products.
L. A. V. F., Los Angeles.
"Hello fellows! Get in line; use home
products, they're superfine. '-Maude
Bayliss Mosher, court house.
"Patronize home products and pro-
duce proximate prosperity for all. =
Alonzo D. Hitchcock, 419 Wilcox build
ing.
1.-THE products of home are the sinew
and bone of prosperity. &C. c. White,
1907 Arlington street.
Full of Suggestions
Miss M. e. Brown, 1919 West Twenty
fourth street, has sent in three sug-
gestions, as follows:
prosperity! Prosperity! Down to
posterity! And then some.'
"Ho ho! Ha ha! He He! We all will
prosperous be If our goods we buy
where the bear flies high. Ho ho! Ha
hal He he!"
This was his sad lament: I'm down
to my last red cent. oh, spend it,
then, where it's good as ten,' said
Virgins, old Virgins, the Wise
guy
do not let yourself rust; demand
home products or bust."-C. w. Miller,
119 South Avenue q.
zone for all-all for one-Los An
geles. Use home products. Arthur
Boles, Los Angeles.
IF you want to be real booster, buy
home products" byron D. Seaver Po-
mona.
california is the place that's a lead
er in the race, with everything that we
require; so be loyal to your state, for
it certainly is great, and boost it ever
higher."-Mrs. H. e. Lanzit, 1872 West
lake avenue.
Helping city, helping trade; buying
op1v +I,ipOc ~ w GIL
man, 1868 Summit avenue.
"Home products please, profit, pros
per you"
"AiI for me.''-George Maxwell
Quoting slogan of the National Retail
Hardware association)
A. j. Frankland submitted the fol-
lowing. among others: If not made in
l.. A. just take it away"
made here. L. A, have no fear"
Los Angeles make or we won't
take
Make your stand on the L. A.
brand"
Plenty to Pick From
Frederick c. Deubert of 1886 West
Twentyfirst street submitted these
and others:
Civic pride-Prosperity's advance
agent. Use home products"
Our king is Civic Pride-we bow to
him."
BE wise, use home products-pros-
perity."
"Home products consumption will al
ways procure prosperity"
Let civic pride govern our heart,
home products our desire, prosperity
our purse"
Home produCts-sound the password
free as a short cut TO prosperity"
''Ye whom home products seek shall
find here PrOsDeritV Week"
'ProSperityS crown will gladly rest
on fair California's home product re-
quest"
"Where home products rule the roost,
there prosperity gets its boost"
All authors of notices are protected
in their ideas by the numbering of the
phrases in the order they are received.
In case of duplication the first received
will be chosen.
Riverside win join with Los Angeles
in celebrating the prosperity and home
products era, according to a letter re-
ceived yesterday by Secretary Virgins
from Secretary H. NJ May of the Riv-
erside chamber of commerce.
Tropico has Joined in with a formal
Endorsement and enlistment in the
cause, signed by nearly one hundred
members of its Improvement associa-
tion, headed by DR.. j. Oscar GarmOn,
president.
The committee in charge of Factory
Visiting day has been announced, as
follows: II. J. Brainerd, chairman; F.
O. Engstrum, Charles b. Van Worst, r.
II. Pulfer and r, s. Tompkins.
Secretary Virgins urges merchants
who have delayed returning postal
cards to mail them at the earliest mo-
ment, that details may be not delayed.