AN "AD" THAT DESERVES A PATENT.

Kumara Times, Issue 1031, 21 January 1880, Page 2

AN "AD" THAT DESERVES A PATENT.

The Allegan Journal has had an advertisement) that, is fearfully and wonderfully rtfade and is calculated td strike terror td the" stoutest heart. The advertiser has evidently gone mad on seeing so many circus advertisements in the. Michigan papers lately, and has resolved' td do* likewise or* perish in the attempt. Hie has ddne likewise, and the probability is that the infuriated citizens of Allegan have? ere this risen as one man* and annihilated him. He secured two collimns just beside the circus "ad" proceeded to "go it better'* o'ri every announcement. For cuts he bankrupted the Allegan Journal office. A liverpad man does ditty for the giant, a hearse is the band wajgdn, three mules* heart*, but out with a broad-axe, stand for the menagerie. The usual elephant, block bier cut, anti-fat fat woman illustration, together with the ordinary pictures that go to make up the advertising page of a paper, are lavishly displayed, regardless of cost, and matde a combination and a " form " indeed, trt give the world assurance of one of the* most astounding advertisements of modern times. The reading matter is as wonderful as the illustrations. Arrangements have been made* for the reception of a mammdth special despatch from Allegan giving full particulars of how the exasperated citizens* mobbed and destroyed the journal office.—'Detroit Free Press;