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Lena Stone
Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 8
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, April 18, 1907
What is the Value of a Camel's Hide?
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That is
the question that just now confronts S. N. Donohoo.
It came
about by the death of a camel owned by the Van Amburg shows. The camel
died Thursday night and the show management had the hide removed from the animal
and offered it for sale to Donohoo. Marlin's veteran hide man, was at sea
as to the value of the hide of a camel. He has bought, in the past fifty
years, all kinds of hides and felt that he knew more about the hide business
than any one around here. But he never saw a camel hide before except on
the camel. He called up a Waco hide dealer , but that party said the hide
might be worth 30 cents or 30 dollars, so far as he knew.
The show
man wanted twenty plunks for the hide. Donohoo compromised with him for
$12.00 and now he owns the hide.
He says he
has no idea what it is worth, if anything, but that he will find out by shipping
it to St. Louis. He will get the returns in a few days and requests the Democrat
to state to the public that he will then be in the market regularly for camel
hides and will pay the best market price. Take your camel hides to
Donohoo. He wants a carload at once.
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