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Rules For Business Men

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
November
Year
1886
Copyright
Public Domain
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From gome "Rules for Business Meu," we extract the following íq relation to advertising: 'Take advantage of modern facilities. Use the means within your reach; iucrease and multiply the means of iúíormat ion . "To succeasfully compete with a neighbor, particípate in the facihties afforded to go ahead . "Don't depend upon your own liiu-s alone; use the lungs of the press. "Make ït known by printers' ink that y ou are prepared to do business. "Sell at small pronta for cash, and make it known through the newspapers. "All that any honest, legitímate concern requires is fair judgment, close industry, unwsvering integríty, superior workmanship.fsir prices.and to do bett-er by customers, if possible, than others m the same business - and give it publieity. "Papa," said an observing httle Miss pointing to a turkey that was strutting around in a neighbor's yard, "hasn't that red nosed ohioken a distressingly large bustle? The Manufacturar and Builder thinks that the man who is working to secure a ■malí pieoe of property substitutos a new and distant ambition for a remote and vague one. Day dreains about large estates and princely i o comee may be Terv amusing, but they are not half so profitable as a visión of a lot 100 by 00, with a snug httle dwelling house upon it. With this before him, a man wiil nse early and retire late, turning his had cbeerfully to say every kind of work. He wül nave a motive for rigorous economy whioh will make it a pleasure. He we will have the visión of the last pay ment before him as a perpetual motive to moderation in passions, eoonomy in expenses, abstinente from expensive pleasuree and from expensive companions. Thus it will come that a judicious debt, inourred at the beginning of a journeyman's or laborer's career, will become his good genius, watching over him, mciting him to all industry and to selfgovernment. Every labonng man ought to own his house. The fint Juty of the workingman should be to oonvert his earnings into real estato. A oompany of first-class artista, presentiDg an even and meritohons entertainment; deserving more than ordinary praise, is what the Philadelphia Times saya of the play of "Our Jonathan."

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat