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and explain your plan to them, telling them the date of the first sale. At first it
may be necessary to persuade them to bring in things to sell. When talking
with the farmers ask them if they haven’t a horse, mule, calf, cow, some extra
fruit or canned goods, a plow, rake, cultivator, manure spreader or something
of the kind they would like to sell. Nearly every farmer has some surplus of
one kind or another.

If your first sale is properly advertised and talked about you will have a big
crowd. A good auctioneer can always get something for almost anything
offered. After the first sales results are known in the community there will be
little difficulty in getting things to sell and crowds to attend other sales.

If there is a county or community fairground near your town and you can
arrange to use the fair property for your sale, you will have an ideal place.
But any location on good roads, easily accessible, will do for a start.

Commissions are paid the sale operator at the time of the sale. Usual rules of
bidding at auction sales are followed. Small advertisements in the local
papers, and handbills or sale bills, as they are called, will be sufficient
advertising until the regular day and date of your sale becomes established
and known in the community.

A Roadside Tire Repair Business

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T WAS a blown-out front tire, occurring while driving along route US 20
from Chicago to Michigan City, that started James Mowry in business. When
the blow-out happened, Mowry did what many other motorists do. He
replaced the flat with the spare, and threw the old tire in the weeds along the
road. He decided to buy a used tire in Michigan City to carry as a spare on
the way back. After calling upon several tire dealers in the Indiana city,
Mowry was forced to pay $5.00 for one that wasn’t much better than the tire
he threw away.

Mowry felt he was cheated. The idea persisted in his mind on his way back