The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-30
RICHMOND MEETS
EVERY De NJ A N D
Wholesale Druggists Demon
stration That Acted as a Kind
of Eye-Opener.

IL Is curious, but il is fact. and a
:act 10 he der!ored. that people have a
way of trading away from home. JUST
10 Illustrate: the country merchant At
! Ncntuck Cross Roads complains that
people who ought 10 trade with min!
pass him by ana pay more Tor the same
goods at Pordunck. the county seat,
the Pordunck people insist upon golns
TO panyillc, Tor instance, IL being the
nest Digger town nearby to bay Things.
ana while they pay just Us mu-h. and
maybe "A little more, Than the Por.
dunck price. they come home happy
enough. with freight charges ADDED.
Tue Danvillc people then run to Peters
burg. ana the Petersburg people do
their best trading in Richmond. IL.
turn, Richmond people hustle OF to
Washington and New York and Boston,
and som. times some OF them are so aw-
FULLY foolish as 10 stop OF In Balti
more. but they never do that more than
once. Experience is a terrible teacher.
If the direct customers aud buyers
nave gotten on 10 this foolish idea
that they can buy 10 better advantage
IN New York AMI Boston ana heaven
only Knows whore else thGn they cal.
at home. 1t is not strange that the re-
tail mechants OF Richmond have in
some Way acquired an idea that IL they
want to buy anything they must hunt
IN wholesalers beyond tho limits OF
tins city Both ideas are absurd. as a
little reasoning can easily convince
one. but sometimes it is hard to yet one
TO listen To reason. Some OF the Rich
nond retailers ar. from Missouri or
have heard from that curious Kind OF
state. and the most Of them like dem
onStrations. They want to b.. shown
Just right here the Powers-Vaylor
brus COMPANY has dropped in the ring
and has been doing little drinonstrat.
ing. and am told that the dumonstra-
tion has walked up numbc. OF I;ich-
inohu retail druggists and notion deal
ers The Powers Ia ylor people. who
deal very largely In what are known as
druggists sundries.' ami sell thous-
ands upon thousands Of dollars worth
of them In their Southern territory.
have never heretofore been able to get
the Richmond retailers to take much
intores, in their biz supplies some
man Of tho concern l don't know who.
conceived the idea that the Richmond
territory was worth cuitivating and
only needed to be Informed
The rlan we'll known 10 New York
ana Philadelphia and other points Of
wholcsaling was adopted. Rooms were
taken at the jefferson. and samples
were set forth. ana all OF the Richmond
ana Virginia retail druggists we're in
vited TO be there and see that a Rich
mond wholesale drug mouse could 40 as
well. If not great deal better. in the
"sundry'' line than the folks vino have
10 pay all of their expenses down hero
10 tell what they can do.
The display made by the Powers
Taylor Drug Company was really an
cyo-opcnc' to the retail druggists oil
this city ANA other Virginia GOWNS. and
it showed. nothing else could have
shown just quit" so we'll. that any and
all Virginia and southern dealers in
anything. especially druggists sup
plies and sundrics. can find anything
and all things they arc looking for
right here III this good ola town Of
lHchmond.