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FROM THE ARCHIVEFeb 15, 1907·Starkville, Mississippi

WORST OF TWO BARGAINS

Scanned from The Starkville News, Feb 15, 1907
WORST OF TWO BARGAINS
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BUYING A WAGON How. Mr Brown Got the Worst of. Two Bar gains TRIED MAILORDER METHODS Thought. He Was Saving Money Bui.

Will Not Try the Same Thing a Second TimeBuying at Home Pays Copyrighted 1906 by Alfred C Clark. Mr Brown a farmer living in Boone county Mo decided to buy a spring wagon. The next time he was. In town he went to the local dealer to see what he had in stock.

One wagon that suited him was offered to him at 75 He thought he would take. It but before ordering he looked over a mail order vehicle catalogue Here he saw described a wagon which far as description went was the same as the one he saw in the deal ers store room. In fact the descrip tion was written in such a convinc ing manner and all of the good points of the mail order vehicle were brought out so thoroughly that it appeared to be superior to the other one. And the price was only 6745 Mr Brown thought of the saving of 755 which represented several days of hard work.

The more he thought about it the more he wanted to save.

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