Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-07-31

are all to be had for the Hamilton
Bond or the S. & H. stamp or both
together. Already force of canvas
sers are being gathered together to 60
out and acquaint the housewife with
the fact that she can now combine
her green stamps with her husbands
cigar coupons 1.-THE Hamilton Bond),
and with the coupons from the grocer
les she buys In packages. The house.
wife's information of this fact will
lead to an immediate demand for the
Hamilton Bond, and as a result the
dealers who decide to issue it will not
have to wait for benefits. They will
be immediate, for today 100000 wo-
men are collecting the green trading
stamp. and the vast majority of them
have husbands who are smokers.
An illustration of the great care
with which every detail has been
worked out is the following fact that
premiums ranging from pocket knife
to fine furniture are on the list. For
merly, many coupon plans demanded
$500 worth before they were eligible
for redemption. Not so with the Ham
ilton Bond Five dollars worth will
bring a valuable little present. The
variety of articles covered on the pre-
MUM list is interesting. A woman
could furnish her home complete from
this list with nothing but Hamilton
Bonds as a purchasing medium. Even
the dressing table would be complete
ly equipped Her husband can furnish
his pockets with little accessories that
every man appreciates with the BY
products from his smoking-the Ham,
ilton Bond.
The United Cigar Manufacturers
have secured the exclusive rights OF
this coupon in their line Of business
owing to the fact that they were the
only concern that could guarantee a
sufficient distribution to insure the
dealer the lowest possible price on the
coupons. The question Of giving them
free to the dealers was thoroughly
discussed, but it was decided to make
the dealer the ridiculously low price
of So so per 500 worth of bonds. This
price represents the actual cost of
the Hamilton Bond to the United
Cigar Manufacturers, and 1t Is sold to
the dealer at net cost simply as a
method of increasing the dealers bus
mess and thereby boosting their own.
Regardless of his electromagnetic
less of the different brands Of cigars
he handles any independent cigar
dealer in the United States can have
the Hamilton Bond. Already the
dealers are beginning to come In, al
though arrangements have barely
been completed to take care OF the
canvassing of housewives and the
handling of the premiums at the 5OO
REDEMPTION stores of the green trad
ing stamp people.
This movement is typical Of the up
to-date business world. The premium
profit-sharing idea has grown to suoh
proportions and carried with 1t so
many concerns and customers that 1t
has become formidable. menace to
the small independent retailer. To
meet this emergency the Hamilton
coupon was evolved, the scheme work
ed out to the smallest details and IL
now adopted by the greatest concerns
of their kind in the country-distrib'
uted through packages and over cigar
counters, backed by an enormous force
of canvassers to inform the house
wives of America OF this new and well
come plan of profit sharing 1t is
hig success at the start and a year
from today will see it on the counters
Of practically every retail dealer in
the country and in the homes OF all
thrifty housewives.
Anv retailer in the country can get
coupons by dropping a line to the
United Cigar Manufacturers.