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HARRISBURG SSSBb TELEGRAPH
LXXXIII— No. 26
J! MILLION A YEAR
IS RUM'S TOLL IN
COUNTY OF DAUPHIN
.21,153,621 1-3 Bottles of Beer
and Malt Liquor Made Here
in Twelve Months
' B THE ESTIMATE OF BREWERS
| Reports to Court Show That 86,-
I 285 1-3 Barrels of Booze
r Were Manufactured
50.3M1 l-S barrols.
21,153.621 1-3 bottle*.
39,106, 862.13 1-8.
In barrels, bottles and dollars, the
uibove, In brief, represents Dauphin
county's 1818 contribution to the
liquor traffic.
Whether or not Dauphin county's
beer drinking class drank all of that
and paid out all that money for it is a
I matter of conjecture; but that Is the
I amount of beer and other malt, liquors
■brewed within the county's borders,
band that is the approximate cost—at
TSo cents a bottle.
| } The estimated number of barrels of
I beer and other mait liquors manu
factured In the county is shown in the
■applications for brewers' licenses for
■1914, the last of which were tiled with
bhe Dauphin County Court yesterday.
■Unless there are remonstrances filed
■which will necessitate a hearing upon
■ any of them, these breweries will all
Lbe re-licensed for the ensuing year at
■February license court, February la.
r Supi>ort Five Breweries
Dauphin county supports five brew
eries and in asking for the privilege
to manufacture in 1914, the proprie
tors and managers tile an affidavit as
to the amount brewed during the year
past, for the purpose of estimating
the product for the new year. And this
Is what the applications show:
Fink Brewing Company, 84,1 Bfl bar
rels; Mary L. Grapner, 19,230; Na
i tlonal, Steelton, 15,185; Anna O.
I DOehne, city, 9,295 1-3; Louis Wentzel,
| Lykens Brewing Company, Lykena,
18,419; a total of 86,285 1-3 barrels.
And all that reduced to pints—beer
lis ordinarily put up in pint bottles,
, isn't it —totaled 21,053,621 1-3 pints
—or bottles! And at 10 cents a bottle,
I nm—well—it's merely a matter of
L simple arithmetic.
1 By 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon
W1 the applications had been filed,
Trnd while all the licensed places last
.vpar, with the exception, of course,
oft Augelo Bosch<?lli and Jacob H. Eck
ißked for ' the privilege again,
k Sullivan, of State street, who
to change his place to South
on street, and David P. Baker,
rants a licensed house In Steei
orelgn quarter, are the only new
applicants. Isaac Marcus Is the
tew would-be wholesaler.
is" Will Sound For
Fallen Heroes Tonight!
Ps" will be sounded and flowers :
i for the Civil War veterans who i
uring the year ending December
14, at the annual memorial ser
o be held by Post No. 58, Grand
of the Republic, at its head
rs. College Block, to-night,
annual address will be made by
Lev. George F. Schaum. The
tan of the memorial committee
'ommaiuler George B. Rhoades]
sad a short eulogy on the de
. MA. Waltner. post adjutant
all the roll of the dead. Two 1
girls, Mabel Maulfair and Mae
fh, will strew the flowers,
resses will be made by Bishop
Swenge! William Huggins and
High. Mrs. John Swartz will
an appropriate selection and
will be ployed by Miss Irene
;r. The. meeting will be pre
over by K. B. Hoffman, post
Bnder, who will ma ke the open
dress.
DTCA IMPROVES SLIGHTLY
By Associated Press
bourne, Australia, Jan. 30 A
ch received here to-day from
lay Island says that the con
of Mme. Lillian Nordlca is still
sfactory, but that she is improv-
R*tly.
B-ate News Bulletins
■ NANTUCKET REACHES NORFOLK
B^B« r p o, m Aa " ' Fan * 3 °'— The steamer Nantucket arrived at her dock
K ANOTHER PLAN FOR $1,000,000 HOTEL
Upon his return from a conference with .lohn McDonald, .steward <if
?' a ol J f ) rtf tl,p ~|K Kcst hotel managers in New York, Attor-
B® ''' ?m r ' , ' J *; i rity - announced to-day that a plan Is under way
iwio' il" r tel for Harris, ""T Mr - McDonald, he says,
H> e ratae iIX i, Prmtded McDonald and H«irrlshurg
raifie 9100.000 eiu-h to finance the proposition.
NEW BRIDGE AT DOCK STREET
W. H. Lynch, of the Department of Streets and Pub.
and City Engineer M. B. Cowden conferred late this
r 1 « railroad engineers anil Superintendent W.
nock wtre.-l n ' K the construction of the proposed new
■ \ ONE YEAR TO OBTAIN $20,000,000
Jan - 80.—The American Red Oroas Society has been granted
Chinese government a year in which to obtain $20,000 000 to
■«ut a project for controlling the Hver Hwal, whose overflows have
caused every year great loss of life and damage to property
JAMES O'CONNELL IS SAFE
, ' a, V 80 —The list of passengers saved sent by wireless
Nantucket Includes the name or .James O'Connell vlce-nresi
federation of Labor, and a member of the new
relations commission, was a Daseenger on the Monroe
COLLEGE "MAN DIES
Jen- SO. —The death at Shanghai, China, or Samuel R
Oapen, chMtman of the Board of Trustees of Wellesley College and
president Of the American Board or Commissioners ror Foreign Missions
was announced in a cablegram received here to-day. '
Closing Minutes in Wall Street
New York Closing.—Alamgamated Copper, 76%; American Smelt
lng '.« e9^; Atchlson ' 1 98e * 41v. l'/j i>er cent.; Baltimore-Ohio, 95 U
e* div. 8 i>er cent.; Brooklyn Rapid Transit, 91%; Canadian PaciH?-'
218*; Chesapeake-Ohio, 07%; Chicago-Milwaukee and St. Paul io« i/■
Lehigh Valley, 155%; New York Central, m%; Nor U.em
"steel*6*6% P R° : R S<> ll5 ,ern 981,n,0n Pa«lflc, 19S%i V.
GOMPERS GLORIOUSLY
DRUNK, IS CHARGE OF
DUNCAN MINALD
Head of Labor Federation Shouts
"liar" and "Slanderer"
at Speaker
CONVENTION IN AN UPROAR
McDonald Says He Is Glad Gomp
ers Conld Hear the Charges
He Made
By A irocictrd Prtts
Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 80. That
Samuel Qompers, president of the
American Federation of was
"gloriously drunk" at the Seattle con
vention of the federation, was the
charges made by Duncan McDonald,
of Illinois, at. the convention of the
United Mine "Workers of American to
day. During the prolonged cheer*
"liar" and "slanderer" were hurled
at McDonald by Gompers, who sat on
the platform.
"I am glad Mr. Oompem 1B here so
I can say what I want to," said Mc-
Donald in beginning h-ls reply to the
speech made yesterday by Mr. Gom
pers. "I said there were booze fight
ers in charge of the American Fed
eration of Labor and I'll prove it. At
the Seattle convention I had a room
with my wife at a hotel next to the
room reserved by the resolutions com
mittee. The first Saturday night we
could not sleep for the noise made
by a hunch of drunks In the next
room.
"I appealed to the clerk of the hotel
and the noise grew louder. Then I
went down to the hotel office and the
nlgnt manager called Jim Duncan on
the phone and told him they would
have to get out of the room, that they
were disturbing all on the floor.
"The noise grew fierce and I finally
knocked on the door of the room and
was asked to come in and have a
drink. "When the door was opened there
sat Sam Gompers at the head of the
table, gloriously drunk, with a bottle
of booze in his hand."
The statement threw the convention
in an uproar and it was some time
before order was restored. While the
confusion was at its height Gompers
called McDonald a liar and a slan
derer.
Mr.' Gompers followed McDonald
and denied absolutely, the charge of
drunkenness. He declared the state
ment "libellous, untruthful, vlclotis,
slanderous ami without any form of \
honor."
Electrical Work Is
Criticized by Underwriter
• fly Associated Press
Philadelphia, Jan. 30. —Conditions
In Harrisburg and Heading were told
to-day to the legislative committee
which is investigating fire insurance
companies, by Louis Wiederholt, Jr.,
secretary of the Underwriters' Asso
ciation of the middle department. He
told in detail of the careless electrical
work which underwriting Inspectors
had corrected. He showed a switch
board which had been ripped out of
an establishment at Harrisburg. The
apparatus was composed of insulated j
brass strips packed close together on (
a plain wooden base. Fire, he said,
could have been started by this with |
the greatest ease. He showed nu- j
merous fuses which had been
"bridged" with copper wire. One
"bridged" fuse was taken from a
Reading store.
ONE DEAD AND ONE OVERCOME
IV APARTMKNT HOUSE BLAZE
By Associated Press
Pittsburgh, Jan. 30.—One man was
killed and ten other persons were
overcome by smoke when fire broke
out in an apartment house in the
Lawrencevllle district here shortly
after midnight. Three of the ten per
sons overcome were rescued with diffi
culty by policemen and firemen and
were burned so severely they were
taken to hospitals. Of the others six
were small children. All were rescued
by means of a human ladder of police
and firemen. The dead man is John
Martin, aged 35.
HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1914.
HEAVY FOG SAVES
BRIDE'S LIFE WHEN
HER HUSBAND SHOOTS
Dense Mantle of Mist Also Enables
Assailant to Make
Get-a-way
HE SHOT THREE TIMES
Two Bullets Take Effect; Be
lieved Victim Will
Recover
Heavy fog covering the city last
night prevented Steve Stiner, alias
"The Cowboy," a Roumanian, from
killing his bride of five months.
The heavy mantle of mist also en
abled Steve to make a get-away after
he fired three shots at Mrs. Stiner as
Bhe was entering the home of her
parents at 1114 North Seventh street.
In the dense fog Stiner's aim was not
true.
The young wife Is in the Harris
burg Hospital with a bullet wound in
her neck at the base of the skull and
a bullet in her left shoulder. The
second ball entered the right shoulder
passing through the fleshy part of the
neck. The third shot went wild. Mrs.
Stiner wilf recover.
Up until late this afternoon Steve
was still at large.
Steve Stiner was released from jail
Monday night after serving four
months with three others for beating
up Peter Shilling, a foreigner, In the
Herr street subway, last August. While
in jail he sent for his wife repeatedly
but the young woman feared her hus
band and sent word she did not want
to see him.
Said He'd Kill Wife
Following his release Stiner went
to the office of Alderman Bayles and
asked for
clothing from the home of his wife's
parents, but it was not given him.
Later In the day he called on Detec
tive Ibach and made a similar request
but was told nothing could be done
for him. Steve then went to the home
of his sister at Herr and Cameron
streets, where he had been in an ugly
mood. Late -yesterday afternoon Stiner
called at the store of Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Katzman in Seventh street,
near Cumberland, and said he Intend
ed to kill his wife because she had
turned him down.
Shortly after 7 o'clock last evening
Stiner was talking to a friend at Cal
dfcr rand 'ST'VJrrttlT streets, when his
wife and a sister came to a store near
by. As the two women left the store
Stiner followed them. Just as Mrs.
Stiner was about to enter her home,
he fired, the wife falling In the door
way.
Mrs. Stiner was rushed to the hos
pital and Detective White went after
the husband.
Mrs. Stiner before marriage was
Caba Lenca Fostanar. She made her
home with her mother, Mrs. Rosa
Fostanar, 1414 North Seventh street.
Mrs. Stiner is 20 years of age. Her
husband 22 years. They were mar
ried August 1, 1913. Since the mar
riage Mrs. Stiner has seen very little
of her husband because of his being
in jail.
Yeggmen Blow Safe in
Conyngham Post Office
and Escape With $250
Hazleton, Pa., Jon. 30.—Yoggmen
blew the safe In the post office at
Conyngliam, a borough near here,
early to-day and got away with about
SSO in cash belonging to A. W. Reisen
weaver, the postmaster, and S2OO in
government funds. The safe in the
Reisenweaver store, where the post
office is located, was also wrecked.
Postmaster Reisenweaver was awak
ned by the noise, and fired at two
fleeing figures in the darkness, but
they escaped, hater Sergeant .Jasper
Oftedal, of the State police, arrested a
man giving his name as Michael Scan
lon and his residence Shenandoah, a
supposedly deaf and dumb mendicant,
who talked after being charged with
Implication in the robbery and con
fessed. He gave the names of two
other men Implicated In the robbery.
Cold Wave Will Hit
City Late Today Is
Forecast of Demain
The cold wave which has been
forcing the mercury down In the AVeat
and Middle West will reach here late,
this afternoon. Tt. will cause a fall of
twenty degrees of temperature.
The warm weather has caused an
unusual condition in the river. For
thet first time In years the January
' break-up is coming without rain. The
j ice has moved down the west branch
1 almost as far as Wllliamsport and
may cause a rise of four or five feet
in the river by to-morrow. The west
branch is clear as far as Nesblt.
Parsonages Are Bought
I and Sold; New Home For
| Grace Church's Pastor
Following the announcement that
I the Pine Street Presbyterian church
i has purchased the E. R. Mitchel resi
dence In Front street for use as a
parsonage, it was said to-day that the
Grace Methodist church has bought
the old Pine street property In State
j street adjoining the Grace church and
• will remove it and erect thereon a
I parsonage of architecture and mate-
I rials in harmony with the present
church structure. It is also reported
that Zlon Lutheran church Is negoti
ating with Grace Methodist church
for the purchase of the present Grace
parsonage at 212 Pine street.
TAKE LUNATIC HOME
Henry W. Harper, the demented
young man from Easton, who wanted
to be commissioned Governor General
of Northampton county, and called on
Governor Tener the other day, was
taken to Easton this afternoon by H.
P. Rrown, a constable, to answer a
! rharge of carrying concealed deadly
| weapons and threatening to kill a
sister.
Forty-nine Passengers and Members
of Crew Lost When Ships Collide
FRENCH MAIDS WHO WILL CURTSEY AT SUNSHINE PLAY
m * I
■ I, i"'*?'I''" 1 ''"* 1 "' I ''."" .'
"The Lost Princess 80-Peep," the opera to be given this evening and to-morrow afternoon and evening at the
Majestic Theater for the benefit of the Roberta Dishrow Lloyd Sunshine Society, hae in Its cast more than 250 peo
ple, many of whom are prominent in ilie city's social life. Many a Broadway manager would pay a pretty figure to
have on bis stage the pretty figures that will be included in the big choruses. One of the pretty groups will be
the French Maids, including Isabel Shrelner, Mary Boas, Marian Bretz, Eleanor Etter, Anna Young, Sara McCul
loch. Cherry Westbrook and Alice Decevee.
TWO ESCAPE WHEN
THREE ARE KILLED IN
MOUNTAIN ACCIDENT
Driver and Four Little Children Go
Over Embankment With
Big Oil Wagon
Special to The Telegiaph
Newport, Pa.. Jan. 30.—0n& of the
most shocking and distressing acci
dents occurred yesterday afternoon in
I Watts township, whereby two little
! girls, sisters, .lie dead at the home of
I their parents and a nuin died on his
I way to the Harrisbtirg Hospital.
I Charles E. Cook, driver for the Atlan
! tic Refining Company, who goes out
!of Newport making trips through
various sections of the county deliver
ing kerosene from a tank wagon
'drawn by three horses, had served his
customers at New Buffalo, going
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GREASY FAILS TO
MANUFACTURE ANY
CAMPAIGN THUNDER
Endeavored to "Show Up Highway
Department Again/' But
Fell Down Hard
~ ~
"Farmer" William T. Creasy, promi
nent in the affairs of the Democratic
State machine, went into the closing
meeting of the State Board Agricul
ture to-day with "hay 011 his horns,"
as they say on the farm. The
"Farmer" endeavored to get some po
litical capital for the Democratic
State windmill in Market Square out
of the business of this nonpartisan
State board, but he failed. And the
funny thing about it was that the
Catawissa Granger was blocked in his
spectre hunt by Auditor General A. W.
Powell, who has been a critic of the
Republican administration of affairs in
highway and other departments.
Creasy endeavored to "show up the
Highway Department again." He
started .a series of questions and a«ked
Mr. Powell how much money the
Highway -Department had on hand.
His scheme was apparently to get out
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Express Co. Employe
Commits Suicide by
Hanging at Columbia
Special to The Telegraph
Columbia, Pa., Jan. 30. George
Winkleman, about 40 years old, an
employe of the Adams Express Com
pany, committed suicide by hanging
at an early hour this morning at his
home in North Third street. Winkle
man got up this morning and it was
thought had left the house to go to
work, but about 8.30 o'clock Mrs.
Winkleman had occasion to go to the
cellar and she found her husband's
body hanging to a beam. She sum
moned neighbors and the body was
cut down. A physician was called
and after an examination said the
man had been dead more than an
hour. No motive for the deed is
known, as he had no financial or
family troubles, and was in good
spirits when he arose this morning.
Coroner Strine is making an investi
gation.
HOLD-UP MEN MAKE
ATTEMPTS TO ROB
RAILROAD EMPLOYES
Trackwalkers Along Pennsylvania
System Are Stopped by High
waymen While on Duty
Special to' The Telegraph
Marietta, Pa., Jan. 30. —Two hold
ups of trackwalkers on the Penn
sylvania railroad occurred last night,
but in both cases the men escaped
without injury and lost no money.
Christian Ilaldeman. who walks the
stretch between Schock's Mill and
Holland, was making his trip about
10:30 o'clock and was about half way
over the bridge when he was met by
three men, one of whom carried a
searchlight. They demanded his
money, probably knowing that yester
day was payday on the railroad. He
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REFERENDUM VOTE ON
HIGH SCHOOL HOURS
TO BE GIVEN PARENTS
Steele Has Scheme Whereby In
convenience Can Be Some
what Remedied
To make the inconvenient hours of
the double session system at the Cen
tral high school more suitable to stu
dents and parents. Professor W. S.
Steele plans to give the parents a ref
erendum vote on when they want their
children to attend school.
Each parent will bp asked to Indi
cate on the midyear report card which
will be sent out soon, whether it would
suit the student In the family to go
In the inorningß or the afternoons
permanently or whether they prefer
the present system.
When the reports are all in, Pro
fessor Steele will arrange each stu
dent's work so that he can attend
school at the time of day suitable to
the student and the parents. As many
of the boys have positions in the after
noons, the present system of alternat
ing half the school from morning to
afternoon session eveVy month has
caused , much inconvenience. In the
Fall and Spring the members of the
athletic tpams have to leave classes
early or lose time In their changing
teachers.
Attorney For Accused
Women Asks Court For
Habeas Corpus Writ
' By Associated Press
Chambersburg, Pa., Jan. 30. —Attor-
neys for Mrs. Zelcla Keller Gerhold
and her mother, Mrs. Jennie S. Ricker,
arrested yesterday charged with the
murder of Floyd Keller and placed in
Jail here, to-day petitioned Judge Gil
lan that writs be Issued on Sheriff
Walker to produce the two women in
court on February 6. The habeas
curpus petitions declare that both
women are held unjustly for the com
mission of some supposed crime.
Judge Gillan directed the prothono
tary to certify all documents in the
case into court. There was no re
sistance on the part of the Common
wealth.
THOSE WHO TEACH
IMMIGRANT CHILDREN
FACE GRAVE PROBLEMS
Future Citizens Moulded Largely
Along Lines Laid Down by
Public Schools
[This is the second of a series of
articles on the immigrant child in
Harrisburg public schools. Mrs.
Wood Illustrates their handicaps
and sets forth their marvelous pro
gress under difficulties.]
By MRS. ANNA H. WOOD
The immigrant children who have
come to make their future homes
with us are utterly at sea regarding
the laws of ventilation and hygiene.
Their home life is conducted vir
tually without any, thought of such
matters. One Italian mother, when
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SUBWAY AT DIVISION
STREET TO BE URGED
AT MASS MEETING
West End Improvement League
Calls Session For Next
Tuesday
The need for a subwav at Division
street will be taken up at a mass
meeting called for Tuesday night In
the Camp Ourtin school building by
the West Knd Improvement league.
The public has been urged to attend
this meeting by members of the
league, and it is expected that some
definite plan for the furtherance of
the movement for the subway will be
presented. *
The meeting will start at 7:45
o'clock. Members of the league will
tell of the commercial value of a sub
way in the West End. lews of Wild
wood park and a history of the park
will be given, and the ease with which
the park could be reached through a
subway will be explained.
A committee of the league headed
by Karl Steward has been busy for
some weeks gathering data on the
subject and the results of their work
will be told at this meeting.
First Arrest For Bad
Housing Conditions Made
By Sanitation Bureau
Because he failed to clear out the
rear of 517 South street, following the
inspection of housing conditions by
Mayor Royal, Chief of Police Hutchi
son and Dr. J. M. J. Raunlck, city
health officer, information was made
to-day before Alderman Murray
against N. Freidberg, of 420 Walnut
street.
Mr. Freidberg was given a hearing
this afternoon. He is charged with
allowing filthy sanitary conditions to
exist in the South street house.
This is the first prosecution to be
brought by the health bureau as the
result of the inspection of the slums,
but many notices have been sent to
owners, and there are many hurried
"flittings" from crowded tenements
land from the cellars in which lodgers
were found. Further inspections are
I promised tn other sections of the city.
16 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT.
Monroe and Nantuckd
Going in Opposu
Directions, MJ
During Heavy F1
Early To-day al
Former Goes Dow
Within 10 Minute:
VICTIMS WERE 1
ON MONROE
Nantucket, Following
Collision, Acts as
Rescue Ship and
Succeeds in Getting
85 Persons From
Water; Saved Are
Now On Way to
Norfolk.
By Associated Press
Norfolk, Va„ Jan. 30.—Forty
nine persons went down to death
at 2 tn. to-day when the Mer
chants' and Miners' liner. Nan
tucket, sunk the Old Dominion
liner, Monroe. Wireless lists for
warded by Captain Johnson of
the Monroe, returning with the
survivors on the Nantucket,
show:
Lost—Passengers, 25; crew
24. Total, 49.
Saved—Passengers, 30; crew,
55. Total, 85.
Captain Johnson, of the sunken
Monroe and all his officers but
one were among the saved. The
lost offfcer was second engineer,
named Dately.
Eighty-five survivors picked
from the sea and huddled on the
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ANNOUNCE IJOAN'S SUCCESS
Berlin, Jan. 30. — The complete suc
cess of the new 190,000,000 Prussian
loan was announced to-day.
For Harrlsburg and vlelnltyt Gen
erally fair to-night and Saturday*
colder to-night, with lowest tem
perature about 25 dpgrrn.
For Eastern Pennsylvania! Unaot
tled to-night and Saturday, prob
ably mow or rain i colder to
night) colder Saturday In south
east portion t moderate weat to
north wind*.
IllTer
lee movement* have occurred h
both branches of the river. lee
la gorged between Renovo and
J.ock Haven, and there are prob
ably other Jams In the Weat
Branch. In the North Branch
the river la covered with floating
Ice to Towanda and Wllkea
llarre. The main river and lower
portion* of the two branches will
rise to-night and Saturday. Upper
portion of West Branch will tail
to-night and Saturday. The up
per portion of the North Branch
will probably begin to fall to
night or Saturday.
General Condition*
The main center of the western
■form has moved off northeast
ward and the offshoot Is now
central In the Bast Gulf.
Temperature! S a. m., M| a p. m., 63.
Sunt Rises, 7i17 a. m.j seta, 8i24
p. m.
Moont New moon, flrnt quarter,
February 8, 5i3H a. m.
River Stage i 4.S feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, 44.
Lowest temperature, 37.
Mean temperature, 40.
Normal temperature. 28.
The New
Currency Bill
Is not nearly of so much personal
Importance to you as the new
dollar bill you stowed away
In your pocket.
Congress may debate. Bankers
may petition. Orators may
orate. Well and good. But after
all you are much more interested
in knowing where you can get
100 cents' worth of goods or ser
vice for that dollar of your own.
You are not so much interested
in the price of bonds in Mexico,
but you do want to know about
the t)est market at your own
front door.
You find that the very best and
most up-to-the-minute guide to
this market is the advertising in
the Telegraph, and in other good
newspapers.
The advertising tells you what
goods are being offered and
where and what the prices are.
People who get the most for
their money are the students of
advertising. They buy with
knowledge. They buy where
dealers are competitors and that
Insures the lowest market price