REMEDY FOR BUGS.
A gentleman living by his wits (says the Chicago Tribune) inserted an advertisement something like the following in several country weeklies: " Sure wny to kill potato bugs ; send 20 2-cent postage stamps to X. Y. Z., , for a receipt that cannot fail," Then he hired a dray to convey his mail from tho post-office, and had 10,000 of his receipts printed. Inside of two weeks something like GOOO or 7000 farmers had contributed 20 2-cent stamps each for the printed receipts. Then several hundred of them bought, clubs and railroad tickets, and started out to interview the advertiser. At his office they were informed that he had departed to attend to some business in Europe, and he was not expected back. All he had left was a package of 301)0 or 4000 slips of paper, on which was printed the following: " Put your bug on a shingle. Then hit it with another shingle,"
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3187, 26 November 1892, Page 6 (Supplement)
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156REMEDY FOR BUGS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3187, 26 November 1892, Page 6 (Supplement)
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