Bedford Merchants Matinee Club Promises Weekly Cash Prizes
The Bedford Merchants Matinee Club invites Taylor county residents to a free matinee with no ticket. Mr. E T Brice offers 5 dollars weekly to the local who shows the largest week I purchases from club members, and 38 dollars to the farthest shopper within Taylor county. Prizes based on receipted bills from the prior week. winners published weekly.
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Taylor County
E. T. Brice
Bedford Business Men’s Association
Cosh
Bedford
Bedford Papers
Bedford Merchants Matinee Club Ad List of Town Firms
A local Bedford directory page lists merchants and businesses including hardware and furniture firms, jewelers, dry goods, clothing, butcher, grocery, ice, automolbiles, druggists, bank, bakery, millinery, cafe, lumber, produce, coal and grain, restaurant and monument dealer. The page also mentions the Bedford Free Press and The Times Republican as newspapers serving the area.
1918 Wilson echoes insidious lobby scare
The piece recalls President Wilson charging an insidious lobby infesting Washington after taking office in 1918. It notes a rapid exodus as officials fled the capital, calling the warning the most hustling period yet, and contrasts this early episode with later lobbying that persisted in the capital.
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Wilson
Washington
Patriotism lobby dominates 1915 defense debates in press
The piece criticizes a so called patriotic lobby pressuring for vast national defense spending. It describes leagues clubs and associations promoting battleships submarines and army expansion as a means to secure profits for favored industries. It notes widespread public outreach through schools churches and media to drum up support for preparedness. It closes with small ads and notices about Rhode Island Red cockerels and local commerce.
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White House
Washington
Hobson
Chautauquas
Lyceum
Notio
Also Mentioned on This Page
EL. V. Price
V. Price & Co
C. E. Paul
Men’s Outfitter
Bedford Merchants
Mer
Bedford Merchant’s Matinee Club
Stephens & Taylonr Hardware & Furniture
Gooding Bros
Men's Outfitter
Fuller Taylor Clo
Kelly & Scane
Meat Market
Frank Morley
Little & Hart
Grocery
Paschal Clo, CO
COBB
Ice
R. W. Thompson
Black & Boal
J. E. Lovell
H. R. Reynolds Automobiles
the Citizens Bank
Whitmer
Ethel Muntez
Nat's Bank
McCloud Millinery
Fisher Crouch
Brice Coo
Grocery. Beall Gro. Co., Grocery. CO. ER
Sperry
Condor
J. M. Little
D. W. Wright
Bedford Free Press
J. E. Moody
Sid P. Webb
Bradley & Stickleman
the Times Republican
Webb & Turner
B. C. Wilkins
Bedford Dry Goods CO
James Salter
Ahren Drug CO
N. J. Levene
E. H. Simpson
Rhode Island
R. C. Rhode Island Reds
H. G. Skinner
Adv
Joseph S. Pieringer
Optometrist
Ee Kayser
Venice
Ivory and Sheffield
Sheffield
Holly
Daniel Green
Redingote
Sontache
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