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The purport of what passed was to this effect: She refused to explain the certificates of her death further than that, becoming aware of what she called the "persecution" of the advertisements issued and inquiries instituted, she had caused those documents to be sent to the address given in the advertisement, in order to terminate all further molestation.
It seemed an odd place in which to look for Nelly, but I pounded up the worn stairs dressmakers' advertisements on every riser until I reached the top floor, where a meal-bag of a woman whose head was tied up in a coloured handkerchief confronted me with dustpan and broom.
'Let me look, she whispered; she could scarcely control her voice. Having looked, she cast the paper with a magnificent gesture to the ground. It lay on the hearth-rug, open at a page to which Henry had not previously turned. From his arm-chair he could read in the large displayed type of one of Mr. Onions Winter's advertisements: 'Onions Winter. The Satin Library. The success of the year.
This, with the action recorded in the minutes of the Commercial Club, "decided to go after advertisements in labor journals and the Northwest Worker," shows that a free press is as obnoxious to the lumber lords as are free speech and free assembly.
It is probable that some of the scars and maimings in the preceding advertisements were the result of accidents; and some may be the result of violence inflicted by the slaves upon each other.
The advertisements in vernacular languages that one meets with, circulated and posted up in all sorts of places, tell the same tale convincingly; for the advertiser knows his business, and will not angle where no fish rise. Nor are large towns like Bombay the only places where the Hindu peasant widens his horizon and acquires new tastes.
Those of the salespeople who did not look as if at any moment their eyes might come out and all their veins burst, were living advertisements for Somebody's Anti-Anemia Mixture before the mixture was taken. Win was of the latter type. She had become so pale and thin that Sadie Kirk compared her to a celery stalk.
In almost any New York journal you will find such advertisements as the following: "An honorable gentleman, established in business, desires for a wife a lady of means and respectability. Address M. J. P., Station D, New York." "A gentleman of the highest respectability, who has lately come into possession of a large fortune, desires to make the acquaintance of a lady with a view to matrimony.
The obscure love to rub up against the famous here as well as they do on earth." "You'd run a sort of Social Zoo?" suggested Elizabeth. "Precisely; and provide entertainment for private residences too. An advertisement in Boswell's paper, which everybody buys " "And which nobody reads," said Portia. "They read the advertisements," retorted Madame Recamier.
You see that fat fellow over there Jory had to hold him back. The journalist for his part would rather have urged on the crowd. He kept on repeating that it was famous, that there was a hundred thousand francs' worth of advertisements in it.
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