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THE MERKEL MAIL PiNTLNG CO. INCOIU'OU A TED CAPITAL STOCK PAID IN, .u,000 J . G JACKSON, LUSINES4 i1ANAGER PUBLISHERS THE PAPEIR WITh THE MERKEL MAIL THE CI R CUL A T ION Merkel , Texaa , 2/29/8. xion. P J ryan, Abilene, Texas- De r Sir and Friend:--The wa r the story goes, the New "ery . man charged "1l1 Eye" t5.O for the soup because he needed the money, but th.at is all we have been able to learn. .aybe Bill needed the soup and if there vwere any "noodles" in it the price was reason- able. The same with our price for announcements, (11O.O for a dish of the senatorial sort is reasonable for "The LIal" is the paper with the circus nation. le were not afraid of being left out of the deal but then bated to wait unti1 after the first or second table before we got in--SEE. Yfith best w:' shes efr continued succesC, Yours very truly, THlE IIEPKEL IAIL PRIPTlING ~C ., Business -anager.