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RAPPAHANNOCK NEWS
PtmUSfltD THURSDAY MORNING
At Waakinfte*, Ba»pth»nnock C*aatr. Virginia
TELEPHONE: WASHINGTON 2851
BASIL C. BURKE, JR. Owner
MRS. SARAH C. LATHAM, Managing Editor
Entered aa Second Ctaaa Mail at the Post Office at Wcchtagton, Va.
SUBSCRIPTION (in advance)-, $2.50 PER YEAR
300
Year Ad CampaigiTPays Off
People who have a feeling that advertising isn’t worth while, or it doesn’t pay off, should ponder the case of the “Pilgrim Fathers”, famed bunch of Old Country people who landed at what was later Plymouth, Massachusetts, in December, 1620. They, as the saying goes, “got a good press.*’ They were written' about and printed about—and therefore talked a* bout...so much during 300 years that by-and-by the people ef the United States, as well as other countries, could be excused for sort of gettimgthe impression ti*at, as the name “Pilgrim Fathers” could be token to inean they ^were the first people from overseas to settle m the United States, that even Thanksgiving Day had its origin at Plymouth, and all that sort of thing. But a short tune ago teo^ters in the Saturday Evening Post wrote at some length to debunk that belief. A writer from Virginia set forth the
claim thit settlers had arrived there from eventsmany years before the Plymouth landing, and also said the settlers in Virginia had started to observe a special day ** giving^Day at least 14 years before the Plymouth folk held Sat first fall banquet that has beeiuawarded so much credit in the minds of people.
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+, Fathers were written and talked about....until kte of people sort of formed the impression that there ju«t vKml°dnh?have*beon any United State, had it not been for
the Plymouth landing. The Plymouth Fathers, you see, had the advertising s
and got all Virginia Press Association Bulletin
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