Excerpt from Sales Plans: A Collection of Three Hundred and Thirty-Three Successful Ways of Getting Business Including a Great Variety of Practical Plans That Have Been Used by Retail Merchants to Advertise and Sell Goods There were twenty-seven articles covering a great variety Of lines advertised and everything was seasonable and desirable, while the prices were really remarkable. Even those things marked for the descending scale were priced very reasonably for the Opening hour, although they were slated for a sharp re duction every subsequent hour. These circulars were distributed in great numbers in Ma rion and throughout the surrounding country, including many small towns. They were sent out a long time in advance of the sale in order to let the idea soak in and to give people a chance to talk the sale over. In addition to the circular, the newspapers were used liberally. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.