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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1909)
I ,-- - i "ft WTfW! The Commoner. VOLUME 9, NUMBER W WHY NOT be in BUSINESS for YOURSELF? IS PRACTICALLY EVERY HOUR bF THE DAYLIGHT OF YOUR LIFE BOUGHT BY SOMEONE ELSE? this A fiRRAT PROBLEM FOR YOU TO CONSIDER. If your time IS bought like so many pounds of sugar why is it? Why does another man bur you ? Because he makes money buying you. He makes a profit out of your time. 1 Why shouldn't you hove 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 youyou 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 a good paying position. They didn't have enough 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 DEVQTE 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 on my proposition and carry on this business in connection with your other work and make a profit of from $50 to 9100 a month in addition to what you arc making now and I do not ask you to Invest one cent. It doesn't make any difference whether you live in town or in the country. . 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 ore now in business fpr 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 application 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 ray madelomeaaure clothes direct to the rasa who wore thera. 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 na I can on a wholesale baste and so 1 offer you the opportunity of becoming n retailer for this large house. Hereafter I wish to devote iny time exclusively to tho tallorlnd and wholesaling and through you end hundreds of other live eaerdellc raca I will build up a string of stores from one end of the country to the other. You will bo a part of The Cosmopolitan Tailoring Company, but you will be an independent p If, You cnP O"1 your own 0U3'nf sa nnd 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 tho capital and all that I want to do is to turn out the clothes. You m a merchant will sell these clothes direct to the consumer. It Is absolutely necessary for me to sell the output of my establishment and I have found that It Is cheaper to do It this wuy thaa to do after It myself and try to sell one suit to a man and aend out millions of booklets and advertlslnd circulars every season. There Is every opportunity In this business nnd I have no doubt that there ore many men throughout the country who will get a start In this business offer that 1 am making and "n n few years will be at tho head of a large tailoring business just as I did. WhcTl started out I could think of only six men of my acquaintances that I knew would be interested in such a proposition, but these six men gayo me my start and I still have five of these six men as my customers today. Now you can give a part or your time to this proposition at the start. 1 will furnish everything and give you the benefit of my experience. J I have explained the proposition to you In detail so that you will realise what aa fexceptlonol opportunity this Is to be la business for yourself I want to keen In touch KlV? Personnlly. If you arc Interested in this proposition, simply nil out the McaUon tev ni ih, cotPcr of thls Brtertf eincnt and 1 will send you full particulars-and a complete 61 wh,c,h C0U ,nca KOtHl dc.n of mony l0 "end out- I do not ask you to Tsend mc one Kent but I do not want any man to answer this advertisement who Is not Interested In this oroo. fceltion. I hate been told by my friends that men who arc not interested In my proposition wdl grdmaHkVn fact a complete ftllKHML9w11 cos me. too much money, but I am going to depend effiy upon you. fWM WiU kC C00d on 8 P"PloVaPndn f SSi S?t2e r.ds Wlth youI 1?me ?n na ft P"rl of T"6 Cosmopolitan Tailoring Company and I am going to fit up representatives in stores of their own with Display iMeths of thVhtAt w? laSeSe. Staiion Uu8'CM Cunto "and txS(M! IP XOU WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY FILL OUT THIS APPLICATION BLANK TODAY ... Mt&wssAKEiz: 2$23tziiSi wuTsdo r hi nlcte outfit ready to start ta business aad fall nYi??. i7 . s.eo.d you !!e.co,a feu.laes, of your own oa my MAfi ' J O. BALLj, Manager The Cosmopolitan Tailoring Companv --r-i-uc, mirmLiN STREET, CHICAGO IT IS EASY TO START ON THIS PROPOSITION. No doubt you can think of at least fifteen men right bow among Vour owaaC lualatances who would bo Interested If you would show them where they could rfet a first class made-to-order suit of clothes 'made up especially for then from aay triad of goods that they wont for the same price that they would have to pay for 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 ahow 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 nnd his suit is then made up to his measure, fitting perfectly all of the individual peculiarities ofhis figure. , Besides of fertad your customer all of these advantages you are enabled to sell the tailor-made clothes for tho same price that be would have to pay for a hap-hasard lll-fltllael ready-made suit. The large wholesale tailoring house has the advantage over the small tailor. You show you customer that The Cosmopolitan Tailoring Company of which you nrc a part, employes only the best skilled workmen-workmen who specialize in every phase or Bult makings-one man shrinks the cloth, one makes coats, another vests, another trousers nnd so on. Hundreds of eultaare made and made to fit every day In this big establishment nnd In this way the cost of production Is cut down. In buying Inrgc quantities of woolens direct "rom te mills The Coam politan Tailoring Company secures a price that the small tailor cannot even armroacl , Air of these thing, you tell your customer and prove to him tl at he real"?Icts a wit oPdof&s made exactly to his measure for same price that he has been accustomed to pay for a ready-made suit. FILL OUT TnE APPLICATION BLANK AND MAIL IT TODAY. J O. BALL, MANAGER, THE COSMOPOLITAN TAILORING CO. k iuun.uu oircct, uucago Dear Sir: Date Without any- obligation on my part or co3t to me please cxnlain more SSEM11 $n ,n hqr-!sr,'n" ll,at ' " fiSS SSS ?J?? y , .80 lhnt ' m' devo,e cither " ' a Part of rav time to the feTeSof mCyCowCn.a f CosPol- TailoringTntny and anv cotAto ?hin?Pfrtifo1 f Samplcs' 0rder Blank8 cte- wi out any cost to me so that if I desire 1 may arrange to start in Tight away. Name R. F. D. or Street Number. Town and. State Occupation, ' Age wz&na