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Newspaper
Duncan Arizonian
Location
Duncan, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1912
Page
2
The paper notes contracts for advertising are handled by the Duke Advertising Agency in Los Angeles at 427 South Main Street and in San Francisco at 12 Geary Street.
National figures Carl Hayden and Fred Franklin linked to territorial matters with associates Jno K Bullard Duncan and R S Stewart. Tucson Florence prison and Benson industrial reform referenced.
The piece outlines a 1920s campaign pairing Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Marshall and details an Arizona fair in Phoenix from October 28 to November 2. It lists fast harness and running races, automobile events, and various sports with an exhibition including ostriches, livestock, dogs, and poultry. The Sixth Cavalry band will perform and appear during the fair week.
The Los Angeles Tribune urges Arizona to adopt equal suffrage, arguing women are qualified and should share in lawmaking. It condemns sex discrimination as monstrous and predicts Arizona may join California in ending the injustice.
An analysis by Robert Kenneth Maclea argues the Payne Aldrich tariff harms U S buyers of cotton goods by inflating domestic prices and masking imports. It cites sample fabrics, profits, and price gaps between American and imported dimity and white goods to claim widespread consumer deception and inflated retail costs.
A tariff editor toured a New England city with 100000 residents and found a counter piled with goods placarded for display. The visit highlighted pricing and labeling practices noted by the observer.
Investigation shows a Boston jobber supplied a New England made fabric sold as imported at 10 cents a yard. The tariff board notes American production costs at 7.13 cents, with retailer margins driving consumer prices despite high domestic efficiency.
The piece traces a curtain scrim from domestic production to store shelves. It shows costs: six cents to print works, ten and a third to the jobber, one and eighty seven hundredths to finish, twenty percent markup by the jobber, twelve and a half cents to the retailer, and nineteen to twenty nine cents charged to houses. It argues tariffs push prices above imported goods and notes England's lower effective price at 15.22 cents while American houses sell at higher tariffs.
Toledo Ohio advertisement promoting Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally for blood and mucous surfaces. Free testimonials, 75 cents per bottle, sold by druggists. Also Hall's Family Pills claimed to ease constipation.
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