On March 18, 1899, in the Truro Daily News, sandwiched between an ad for DISH CLOTH SOAP (only 25 cents for a long bar and a nice dish cloth on offer from S.M. Bentley & Co) and an ad that read: Ladies (in large bold type) If you are fond of delicious new confectionery, call and see our stock of chocolates, snow flakes chocolates, creams, mixed candies - all of the best from proprietor J.M. O’Brien, there was an article reporting on the character and background of Karl Creelman.