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The billboard (Apr 1896)

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GUNNING'S BULLETINS. MERE TO STAY. of the; lad past these other important and strategic points. All of the niost val- uable locations of this character in Chi- cago, post [ions whose location makes them " " ■. both wall ring me that argu- ments of the past, that were at the apparently lost, will be of some avail in the future. . I ana not in a position to say just what but would inri- ' St. Louis, and I have no douht but that the bill boards will be benefitted thereby. All new street cars for St Louis, with a few exceptions. REMARKABLE RESULTS. S. J. Taylor, secretary and general man- ager of the immense Dr. J. 11. McLean Medicine Co., of St. Lonis, Mo., in a re- deface the avenue, the scenery, etc., but they are unfortunate it such exquisite faculties. They will h There are a few, comparatively speak ing. who dislike the bills and the signs, because they give offense to the artistic using. Said he high opinion of the efficacy of the boards. Last year we made an propriation, with which we billed Illustration No. 2 illustrates the i . in which they make use of the advertis- ing space around prominent down-town buildings in the couth of tearing down, ;w the boards. " wl Visitors from the West have commented upon the beauty of the art poster, pre- pared by the Huiest-Stout Sign Co., of 5t. Louis, for '■ Kabo Corsets." They have been seen on the bill boards in Kansas City, St Joseph, I^avenworth, Topeka covered these t papers, we found, upon careful inves- tigation, that the sales of our remedy in Indiana were increased 900 per cen" — in Minnesota 1,000 per cent, over suits we had ever been able to ot new advertisements to be painted on the sign boards, and they appreciate the "ads" that are familiar to them. One of the pleasantest recoliecliona that is cherished by the man whose boyhood was spent in the city, is that of the bill boards. He remembers hojv he used to stand before the pictures and the adver- se was in the seventh heaven of.delight With senses entranced, he would devour every detail of the graphic display of the paid to the potency of the posteri glowing tribr.