ARCH 12, 1909
The Commoner.
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WHY NOT be in BUSINESS for YOURSELF?
IS PRACTICALLY EVERY HOUR OF THE DAYLIGHT
OF YOUR LIFE BOUGHT BY SOMEONE ELSE ?
THIS IS A GREAT PROBLEM FOR YOU TO CONSIDER. If
your time IS bought like so many pounds of sugar why is it? Why does
another man buy you ? Because he makes money buying you. He makes a
profit out of your time.
Why shouldn't yon have that profit ? Why should your life be spent In making money for
someone else ? I offer you the opportunity today of using all your time for yourself all the profits of
your labor to go to you you to be your own boss independent in your own business.
Most men have considered going into business for themselves but they have been face to face with
two problems:
They didn't want to give up n good paying position. They didn't have chough capital. These
two difficulties keep many energetic men from going into business for themselves.
I WILL START YOU IN BUSINESS. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DEVOTE
YOUR ENTIRE TIME TO IT. I WILL FURNISH THE CAPITAL.
I do not ask you to give up your present position at the start. I want to prove to you
first that I am sincere. I want to show you that I mean business. You can start in business for yourself
ok my proposition and carry on this business in connection with your other work and make a profit of
from $50 to $100 a month in addition to what you are making now and I do not ask you to invest
It docsn t make any difference whether you live in town or in the country.
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ona cent.
'Doctors, Lawyers, Merchants, Farmers and Managers of large business enterprises have taken ad
vantage of the very offer that I am making you today and they are now in business for themselves. They
are independent business men, cither devoting part of their time or all of their time to the business in
which I have started them. I offer you this same opportunity. If you want to go into business now just
sign the amplication blank which you will find at the bottom of this advertisement.
A Great Money-Making Opportunity
THE GREATEST OPPORTUNITY EVER OFFERED YOU'TO GET IN BUSINESS.
Heretofore I have sold ay made-to-measure clothes direct to the bib who
wore them. But my business has Increased so rapidly that I now find that I cannot carry on
such an extensive business on a retail basis as well as I can on a wholesale basis and so I offer
you the opportunity of becoming: a retailer for this large house.
Hereafter I wish to devote my time exclusively to the faltorlad aad wholesaling
ad throudh oh aad hundreds of other live eaerdetlc men I will build up a strlad of
stores from one cad of tho country to the other.
You will be a part of The Cosmopolitan Tailoring1 Company, but you will be an independent
part. You can run your own business and develop your business entirely to suit yourself. You
will charge what you want to charge for your suits just as any businessman figures up his pro
fits. I will furnish all of the capital and all that I want to do is to turn out the clothes. You
as a merchant will sell these clothes direct to the consumer.
It Is absolutely accessary for me to sell the output of my calabllshraeat aad 1
have found that tt Is cheaper to do It this way than to do after It myself and try to sell
one suit to a man and send out millions of booklets and advertising circulars every
season. There is every opportunity in this business and I have no doubt that there are many
men throughout the country who will get a start in this business ofTer that lam making and in
a few years will be at the head of a large tailoring business just as I did. When I started out
I could think of only six men of my acquaintances that I knew would br interested in such a
proposition, but these six men gave me my start and I still have five of these six men as my
customers today. Now you can give a part of your time to this proposition at the start, 1 will
furnish everything and give you the benefit of my experience.
I have explained the proposition to you la detail so that you will realize what aa
exceptional opportunity this Is to be la business for'yourself . I want to keep in touch
B'ithyou personally. If you are interested in this proposition, simply All out the application
lank In the corner of this advertisement and I will send you full particulars and a complete
outfit which costs me a good deal of money to send out. I do not ask you to send me one
cent but I do not ward; any man to answer this advertisement who is not Interested in this prop
feition. I have been told by my friends that men who are not interested in my proposition will
answer this advertisement. Since I am going to send out Fifty-six Patterns of Woolens got up
In attractive shape, Halftone Bngraviturcs of Fashions, Full Explanation Letters, Stationery,
Order Blanks, in fact a complete outfit to every man who answers this announcement, they
cell me that this will cost me too much money, but I am going to depend entirely upon you.
I believe that there is a man in every territory who will make good on this proposition and 1 am
going to And him and back him up until he does,
I intend to send out'a larger outfit including over 200 Sampjes of Woolens and a Large
Book of Half-tone Engravitures of the latest styles next season. Advertising matter, Stationery.
Business Cards with your name on as a part of The Cosmopolitan Tailoring Company and I am
going to fit up representatives in stores of their own with Display lengths or the latest wool
ens, Large Posters, Stationery, Business Cards and everything necessary to do business on a
large scale.
IF YOU WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY
FILL OUT THIS APPLICATION BLANK TODAY
The territory will be rflvea to the first man who applies. You do not have to scad
aa ceat. Simply fill out the coupon aad mall It to me aad I will send yoa the com
Slete outfit ready to start In business aad fall particulars how to start up a Tatlorlad
iBstaesa of your own oany capital without Investing1 aay money yourself .
J O. BALL, Manager
The Cosmopolitan Tailoring Company
248-252 FRANKLIN STREET, CHICAGO
IT IS EASY TO START ON THIS PROPOSITION.
No doubt you can think of at least fifteen men rldht now arsondVour owaac
assistances wbo would be Interested If you would show Ihera where they could del
a first class raade-to-order suit of clothes made up especially for them from any
hind of doods that they want for the same price that they would have to pay for a
ready-made suit.
It is easy for you to convince your customer that they should buy from you instead of buy
ing ready-made clothes because every man knows that tailor-made clothes made up especially
to his measure and made from cloth which he selects will give him better satisfaction than a
ready-made suit. You show your customer that he gets just what he wants. Instead of select
ing from a limited stock which the retail clothier has on hand, you allow your customer to
select his good from fifty or sixty patterns and his suit is then made up to his measure, fitting
perfectly all of the individual peculiarities of his figure.
Besides of ferlad your customer nil of these advantages you are enabled to sell
the tailor-made clothes for the same price that he would have to pay f of a hap-hasard
lll-flttlad ready.made suit.
The large wholesale tailoring house has the advantage over the small tailor. You show
your customer that The Cosmopolitan Tailoring Compa ny of which you are apart, employes only
the best skilled workmen workmen who specialize in every phase of suit making one man
shrinks the clothfone makes coats, another vests, another trousers and so on. Hundreds of
suits are made and made to fit every day in this big establishment nnd in this way the cost of
production is cut down. In buying large quantities of woolens direct from the mills The Cosmo
politan Tailoring Company secures a price that the small tailor cannot even approach. All of
these things you tell your customer and prove to him that he really gets a suit of clothes made
exactly to his measure for same price that he has been accustomed to pay for a ready-made suit.
FILL OUT THE APPLICATION BLANK AND MAIL IT TODAY.
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J O. BALL, MANAGER, THE COSMOPOLITAN TAILORING CO..
248-252 Franklin Street, Chicago
Date.
Dear Sir:
Without any obligation on my part or cost to me please explain more
fully how you will start me in business for myself to that I will not have to invest
any money and 10 that I may devote either all or a part of my time to the
proposition and become part of The Cosmopolitan Tailoring Company and
secure a store of my own.
Abo send me your Portfolio of Samples, Order Blanks, etc., with out
any cost to me so that if I desire I may arrange to start in right away.
Name
R. P. D. or Street Number.
Town and State
Occupation
Age.
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