The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-03-25

and bought samples of the tobacco
stock, from two-fors up to ten-centcrs,
and smoked them with expressive
snorts. Tracey Tanners soda and Gig
arctic trade was transferred bodily to
Graham's from the first, aud Roland
Barnette gave it his patronage, albeit
grudgingly, as soon as he found it i'm.
possible to shake Josie Lockwood's al.
legiance. say grudgingly because
Roland didn't like the new partner
and had said so from the first. But
every one else did like him almost
without exception. His attentiveness
and courtesy were not ungrateful aft
er the way things We're thrown at you
at Sothern & Lees, we declared
Duncan certainly did strive to please.
No man ever worked harder in n Rad
Vile store than lie did. And from the
time that he began to believe there
would be some reward for his exer-
tons, that the business was suscepti-
Bile to being built up by the employ
ment of progressive methods. he grew
astonishingly prolific of ideas. from
our sleepy point Of view. The win
dow displays were changed almost
daily, to begin with, and were made as
interesting us possible. We learned to
60 blocks out Of our way to find out
what Graham & Duncan were exploit
ing today. And daily bargain sales
were instituted. low priced articles of
everyday use, such as shaving SOAP
toothbrushes and the like, being sold
at few cents above cost on certain
days, which were announced in adj
vance by means Of hand lettered cards
In the show windows, whereas for
merly we had always been obliged to
pay full list prices.
Still earlier in his career as a busi-
ness man he noticed that the local
practitioners wrote their prescriptions
on odd scraps Of paper.
''That's all wrong" he declared.
'We'll have to fix it, And by next
morning the job printing press back of
the courthouse was grooming under an
order from Graham & Duncan's. and
few days later every physician within
several miles of Radville received half
dozen neat pads Of blanks with his
name and address printed at the top
and the advice across the bottom. go
to Graham's for the best and purest
drugs and chemicals" The backs of
the blanks were utilized to request
people living out Of reach, but on rural
free delivery routes, either to mail
their prescriptions and other orders in
or have the physicians telephone them,
promising to fill and dispatch them by
the first post.
For he had telephone installed
within the first fortnight and the next
day advertised in the Gazette that or
ders by telephone would receive
prompt attention and be delivered
without delay. Tracey Tanner be-
came his delivery boy. deserving his
fathers stables for the obvious advan-
tages of So a week with a chance to
learn the business.
Starting with a line Of five and ten
cent packages Of indigestible sweets.
Duncan in time made arrangements
with a big Pittsburg confectionery
concern to ship him small consign-
ment of pound and half pound fancy"
boxes of chocolates and bonbons twice
a week. And taffy pulls and fudge
parties lapsed into desuetude.
Later Sperry introduced him to an
association Of druggists. of which be
became a member. for the mainte-
nance and exploitation of the cigar
and tobacco trade In connection with
the drug business.
Again, he treated Radville to its first
circulating library. establishing
branch in the store. One could buy