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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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by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas.