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Title: The Clock that Had no Hands
And Nineteen Other Essays About Advertising

Author: Herbert Kaufman

Release Date: August 1, 2009 [EBook #29562]

Language: English

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The Clock that Had
no Hands

And Nineteen Other Essays
About Advertising

By
Herbert Kaufman

New York
George H. Doran Company

COPYRIGHT, 1908
BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

COPYRIGHT, 1912
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

THE.PLIMPTON.PRESS
[W.D.O]
NORWOOD.MASS.U.S.A

Contents

PAGE

The Clock that Had no Hands 1

The Cannon that Modernized Japan 7

The Tailor who Paid too Much 13

The Man who Retreats before His Defeat 19

The Dollar that Can't be Spent 25

The Pass of Thermopylae 31

The Perambulating Showcase 37

How Alexander Untied the Knot 43

If It Fits You, Wear this Cap 49

You Must Irrigate Your Neighbo