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deliveries. Food is wanted quickly. I make four trips to the stores, one at ten,
one at eleven-thirty, one at two and one at four. I pick up all the boxes and
packages of meat and groceries for delivery that are ready, and carry them
around. It takes about an hour to make all the deliveries, so that those who
buy at any of the stores on this route have their groceries early enough to start
supper.

“When store customers discovered they could depend upon my service, more
of them had things delivered. Women hate to carry heavy parcels. Potatoes
weigh fifteen pounds to the peck, and no woman wants to carry a peck of
potatoes herself. She is glad to have the potatoes and her other groceries
carried for her, and willing to pay a dime for it. In a month, my business had
increased from 40 packages daily from that one neighborhood to 129. In two
months, I was averaging 150 deliveries a day, and that was about the top. I
arranged with stores in other communities, got a helper and another second-
hand truck. Soon that was booming also.”

There isn’t a small or large town where a good delivery service from stores is
not welcome. Most store people have either discontinued making deliveries,
or would be willing to discontinue delivering if there were a local,
dependable service such as Overhause offers. Furnishing this type of service
is a quick way to get started in a business.

Sewing for the “Hard-to-Fit” Woman

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NE day a Chicago seamstress overheard an extremely stout woman telling a
small shopkeeper that she experienced so much difficulty in finding suitable
clothes in the stores that she had just about given up bothering about her
appearance. With an apology, the dressmaker entered the conversation and
made an appointment with the stout woman for a fitting. The stout woman
had a sister of about the same build and she too became a customer. Both of
them knew friends who found difficulty in getting suitable apparel because of
their size and soon the dressmaker had built up a nice little business.