Sweet are the Uses of Advertisement
It is recorded that when Mark Twain, in his early days, was editor of a Missouri paper, a superstitious subscriber wrote to him saying that he had found a spider in his paper The subscriber asked whether that was a sign of good or bad luck. The humorist wrote him this answer and printed it in his paper: — "Finding a spider in your paper was neither gool luck nor bad luck for you. The spider was merely looking over our paper to see which merehant is not advertising, so that he can go to that store, spin his web across the door and lead a life of undisturbed peace ever afterwards. '
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Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 15, 23 April 1952, Page 5
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117Sweet are the Uses of Advertisement Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 15, 23 April 1952, Page 5
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