Retribution for a Skeptical Advertiser
A one-line joke, reprinted from the Detroit Free Press, about a grocer who scorned advertising just as the sheriff arrived to close his shop.
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Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · Page 1
1 min readA Boston grocer was telling a newspaper man that it was simply throwing away money to advertise, when the sheriff came in and shut up the store. Retribution is always loafing around. — Detroit Free Press.
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