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How To Help Your Town

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
August
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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1'nlkabout it. Write about it. Beautify the streots. Be friendly to everybody. Eleot good inuii to all the offices. Keep your sidewalks in good repair. Sell all you eau and buy all you eau at home. If you are rich, invest aomething, employ eomebody. Be courteous to strangers tlmt come among you so that they go away with good impressions. Always cheer on the men who go in for improvemenls. Your portion of the coat will be nothing but what ia just. Don't "kick" at any proposed improvoment because it is not ut your door or for fear your taxes will be raised ütty cents. HOW TO IN'JDRE YOUB TOWN AND VICINITY. Oppose improvements. Mist runt. its public men. Kun it down to strangers'. Go to some other towu to trade. Refuse to advertise in your village paper. Do not invest a cent; lay your money out somewhere else. Be particular to describe the motive o( public spirited men . Lenghten your face when a stranger speaks of locating in it. If a man wants to buy your property, charge him two prices for it. If he wants to buy anybodys else', mterfere and discourage him. Bef use to see the morits in any Bchenie tbat does not directly beuefit you.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat