Advertising is a method of nonprice competition and is one of the functions of marketing. Apart from having purely economic objectives, it is used to shape the public politically and ideologically. Advertising, which molds the needs and living standard of bourgeois society, is a social weapon of the exploiting class.
Strafford, MO. Sponsored Topics. Strafford is a city in eastern Greene County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,845 at the 2000 census, a small 2% of the population is African American and only .5% is Hispanic.[citation needed] It is part of the Springfield, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The village of St. Paul, in Noble township, is but a portion of a town located chiefly within Decatur county. The addition made in Shelby county was platted first by John F. Stephens, April 4, 1856. The platting comprised one hundred lots to the west of the original town plat in Decatur county.