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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1907
Page
6
The Home Trade League of America mobilizes merchants across Illinois to combat mail order houses. Alfred C. Clark outlines a plan to force wholesalers and manufacturers to honor local retailers, urging shoppers to boycott catalog firms and buy locally.
Landscape architect Sid Hare argues in Park and Cemetery that straight city plantings block views and reduce home values. He urges planners to use varied groupings of trees and open spaces to preserve vistas, light, and air while enhancing streetscapes and property values.
Commissioner of Public Works John Hanberg announces receipt of the first batch of new signs. The Chicago Post reports the signs call attention to the don ts of the clean street ordinance and urge residents to keep streets clear.
Mayor Fred A. Busse warns that police will enforce orders against posting no bills dirt on sidewalks and street neglect. Commissioner Hanberg proposes a street car end line man to burn sweepings with an appliance.
The municipal league of Los Angeles offers prizes for photographs of the citys ugliest eyesores shown by the camera. Entries aim to prove how dull streets billboards and neglected lots depress real estate values with three prizes of 20 10 and 5 dollars.
An expert says United States residents spend about a billion annually with city mail order houses. Another estimates 12,500 retail dealers have been driven out of business in a year by mail order concerns. All dollars leave small towns and rural districts, never to return, instead of circulating to home merchants who sustain local communities.
The piece describes retail lumber associations in Iowa opposing catalogues and letters urging responses to catalogs. It notes possible conspiracy charges for using the mails to hurt mail order lumber firms like Waterman-Hunter of Minneapolis and Gordon Van Tine of Davenport, with plans to recruit more signers and ransom-like rebates. It also recounts village green improvement traditions led by New Haven figures and the social impact of public works.
Fragmentary OCR describes a local event in Guilford Connecticut involving residents and a public activity on the green. Names and specifics are unreadable but the piece signals a community gathering or dispute centered on a village green.
The New York press notes Mayor Fagan of Jersey City promotes a radical uplift idea urging monthly mass meetings in public schoolhouses to discuss neighborhood campaigns and citizen participation. A governance plan would form a methods committee to address community needs and fund neighborhood improvements.
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