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SCIENTIFIC ADVE RTISING.

The “ Loafer in the Streets,” in the 1 Tress,’ .tolls the following good story about the hairless horse “ Caoutchouc was being shown in Nevada, and an individual wearing an oldfashioned coat, with capacious side pockets, came to sec him. The exhibitor kept his eye on this party. He saw at once that he was no common visitor. Hi; saw in (ho man's eye a gleam of cunning and speculation. Watching him closely, ho observed him handling the tail of the horse in a suspicious manner with his left hand, while in his right he held a bottle. The alarm was quickly given, and the man was caught as ho was rushing out at the door, [t was sup posed that lie had intended disfiguring the horse with some strong acid, and he was about to bo given in charge to a policeman when some one pulled the bottle from his pocket, and it was found labelled, ‘ Whico Wage Hair ‘Restorer.’ The fellow proved to be the agent for this wonderful article. Ho said all he regretted wj-.s that he had not Just got one gill of the hair restorer on the animal’s tail. I would have been ten thousand dollars in Ids pocket, he said, as in less than a fortnight the horse would have had a tail that would have swept the ground. No man with a bottle in his pocket is now allowed to go near the hairless horse. He is at once set down as a disguised agent ot the great hair restorer. uyone perusing the above narrative will allow that wo don’t know much about the art of advertising here yet.”

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Evening Star, Issue 3656, 10 November 1874, Page 3

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SCIENTIFIC ADVERTISING. Evening Star, Issue 3656, 10 November 1874, Page 3

SCIENTIFIC ADVERTISING. Evening Star, Issue 3656, 10 November 1874, Page 3

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