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A real promoter! A kindly press--it's hard to believe today.
[Article 1]
MISS M'CRAW WINS.
Gets the $10 Prize for Best Advertisement of Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy.
On the 14th day of October the following advertisement appeared in the News
and Observer.
$10 GIVEN AWAY!
I will give ten dollars to the person sending me by November 15th, 1899,
the best written 5-inch advertisement of Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy. Those
who do not know about the Remedy can get reading matter by applying for
the same.
Hon. John Nichols and Mr. E.M. Uzzell, of Raleigh, acting with Mr. T.R.
Manning of Henderson, will be the committee to decide who sends the best
written 5-inch advertisement of the Remedy.
MRS. JOE PERSON,
Kittrell, N.C.
October 15, 1899.
In response to it scores of answers competing for the prize were received,
one from Boston and others out of the State as well as a large number from
points in North Carolina.
Yesterday Mr. R. M. Person came to Raleigh and brough with him all the
advertisements of all the competitors. The committee, composed of Mssrs.
Thad R. Manning, John Nichols and H. M. Uzzell met yesterday afternoon and
gave a careful examination to all the advertisements written by the
competitors and awarded the prize to Miss Ruth McCraw, of Littleton, N.C.
She is a daughter of Mr. J. C. McCraw, of that [illegible]. Mrs. Person will send Miss McCraw the
$10 today, and will have the prize advertisement electrotyped. It will
appear shortly in the News and Observer.
IN A BUSINESS LETTER to the Observer Mrs. Joe Person, the manufacturer and
founder of Mrs. Joe Person's celebrated Remedies, has this to say: "I wish
every paper I advertise in paid me as well as your valued Observer. It is a
conservative calculation when I say it pays me one hundred per cent. better
than any paper I have ever tried. MRS. JOE PERSON."
[Article 2]
Mrs. Joe Person, who is personally known and highly esteemed throughout the
length and breadth of North Carolina, and the fame of whose wonderful
Remedy, that bears her name, is still on the upward grade, was in the city
to-day, on her regular rounds of the wholesale trade.
[Article 3]
A Good Thing.
Mrs. Joe Person, of Kittrell, proprietor of that very remarkable medicine
Mrs. Joe Person’s Remedy, was here on business Saturday, She tells us the
sales of her goods are rapidly growing throughout the State. As the public
comes to recognize its merits more fully its popularity increases. Mrs.
Person undoubtedly has a good thing in the Remedy, and knowing this she
pushes it along.
[Article 4]
Mrs. Joe Person, of Kittrell, perhaps the best known woman in the State,
came in on the morning train. Good medicine and good music have made her
name a household word. –
Greenville Reflector.
[Article 5]
Druggists Up in Arms.
The druggists of the city met yesterday to take action in regard to the
Reeves bill now pending in the Legislature. Mr. J. M. Scott was appointed
a committee of one to go to Raleigh, last night, to represent the
Charlotte druggists in opposing the bill. Mr. Scott wired Mrs. Joe Person
to meet him and others interested in Raleigh.
[Article 6]
A STORY WORTH READING.
On the third page of to-day’s paper will be found a very interesting story.
It is a compete [complete] story written by a
large number of good men and women in every section of the State and in
other States, as well, and the whole story tells of a great enterprise
built up right here in our midst. It tells in short, terse verses of the
efficacy of a home remedy that has established itself in the confidence of
an appreciative people. It tells of the successful efforts of a North
Carolina woman made famous not alone by the merit of her popular medicine,
but by the practical and intelligent application of strict business methods
in its establishment and its successful development.
Mrs. Joe Person and her Remedy are industrial forces in the State, which
rest upon foundations as broad and even broader than the State. The page
dedicated to Mrs. Joe Person’s Remedy in to-day’s paper will be read with
interest and with profit by our thousands of readers.
In defense of her work...
