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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1914
Page
30
Fullus Lehman has sold his stake in Moyd Lehman & Co a wholesale firm at 62 West Mitchell Street. Lehman, famed in Atlanta wholesale circles, plans new ventures and says he will pursue opportunities soon, with energy and enthusiasm guiding his next move.
The Kaneea state health board links road upkeep to health outcomes. Clean roadsides reduce breeding grounds for mosquitoes flies and disease carriers by removing weeds trash and providing proper drainage. Oiled roads kill insect larvae and dry routes protect children from damp footwear while reducing infections in the respiratory tract such as pneumonia and tuberculosis.
Bands of consumers join the Wholesale Cooperative Society on Wall Street as directors include Seth Low William Church Osborn and Alfred A Stuart. Horace V Bruce serves as secretary as the group aims to promote cooperative buying cheaper food standards and public education on production marketing and distribution. The nominal capital is $5000 in $5 shares.
A Northern sales force rounds Athens territory with salesmen from American Tobacco Co. and others from Atlanta firms. Classic City Council 315 gears up to host a big night February 21 with officers and members traveling from Athens and Atlanta.
A playful account describes a tour of wholesale houses where merchants buy goods and salesmen sell. The scene is lively with pencil scratches and sample handling as traders and vendors mingle. The piece suggests merchants influence and the market’s lively atmosphere in the south.
Mrs. Polvin operates a flower shop in the Kimball house attracting visiting merchants. They praise the unique artificial flowers and place large orders for window trim and store decoration. Mrs Calvins original ideas come from Paris and New York and assist merchants in planning enhanced store service.
C W McClure reports a three week tour to Variana centers in the north and east. He spent much time in Pittsburg New York and Canton Ohio attending the annual display of glass and crockery manufacturers. He notes prices up about three percent this season despite tariff cuts, attributing the rise mainly to higher labor costs. Crockery gains in popularity while glassware remains steady.
Observations on breakability. Clerks should improve speed and efficiency rather than do less. Laughing at troubles lightens them and inspires change. The pace of a clerk’s selling ability isn’t measured by talk but by quick, effective service. Small price items yield repeat business.
A twenty five year old salesman asks whether to stay or switch jobs before starting his own store. The piece argues that varied experience aids independence, noting benefits from four or more years in multiple roles, and warns against perpetual routine. It compares business to a man learning, emphasizing adaptation, courage, and broader readiness.
The text argues that constant expense cutting without seeking growth harms business. It questions the value of shrinking effort to the point of stagnation, likening it to a man who buries himself in a hole and pulls it in after him, implying self-defeating retreat.
A paragraph from Saturday Evening Post condemns cut-price dealers and mail order houses as predatory threats to small merchants and community welfare. It argues catalogs suppress fair pricing and wages, urging immediate safeguards to protect honest dealers and local economies.
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