Remarkable Hustling Globe Agents of Chenango County 1905

Remarkable Hustling Globe Agents of Chenango County

Utica Saturday Globe, 1905

Lee A. Walker

The Hustling Agent of the Saturday Globe in New Berlin

 

 

Lee A. Walker

Lee A. Walker, who handles the Saturday Globe in New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], is a wide-awake, energetic young man who is bound to succeed, if perseverance, industry and gentlemanly bearing are the handmaids to Dame Fortune's favoring smiles.  His success in selling the Globe is proof that he has the qualities which develop the man of affairs and makes him a forceful factor in the community.

 

Lee has done some big selling before the record-breaking sale of Saturday, September 9, when he disposed of 1,000 copies, and could have sold 200 more if he had had them.  This extraordinary sale can better be understood when it is known that the village contains 1,600 residents, and that 1,200 will give one Globe to every one and one-third inhabitants.  The Globe recalls no occasion where the percentage of sales to the population was carried as high as young Walker did with this memorable flood edition.  It is a question whether as close sales were ever made by any paper in any English-speaking community.  He sold 600 copies when New Berlin was scourged by fire some years ago, and that we thought was doing uncommonly well.

 

Last Saturday Lee sold 500 copies, and has ordered 50 more to fill the demand.  The Globe is pound of him and his work, which shows the possibilities of newspaper selling.

 

 

Arthur G. Crowell

Chenango County Hustler Who Makes Big Sales in Sherburne

 

 

Arthur G. Crowell

 

Arthur G. Crowell, the well known newsdealer of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], is agent for the Saturday Globe and a capital one at that.  In this he is aided materially by his two young nephews, boys unusually bright and promising.

 

Mr. Crowell's remarkable sale of the September 9 flood issue of the Globe in Sherburne reached 400, and he could have disposed of 100 more if he had had them.  Such a sale in a community of 900 is a marvel.  One Globe to a little over two persons is exhausting the field to the uttermost limit.  Such a thing would be deemed impossible short of its actual occurrence, Saturday last, September 16, he sold 350 Globes.

 

Mr. Crowell has been in the news business for 25 years, beginning when 10 years old.  For 14 years he has carried on a store on the busy corner, and it is an up-to-date establishment in which he handles cigars, tobacco, candy and stationery.  Everything is displayed with such taste that one is reminded of the stores of the large cities.  From a modest beginning the business has grown to goodly proportions and is one of the established enterprises of the pretty town of Sherburne.