Big Fight for Trade in Small Town Markets
A 1919 column argues merchants in Henry and other smaller towns can undercut big city prices by advertising and holding down overhead. It notes transportation cuts distances to Peoria and LaSalle, compares New York and Chicago pricing, and urges local merchants to highlight bargains to keep customers from traveling to larger centers. It also shares a snake story from Dr. Pendergast about a flood era incident near Terre Haute with a horned toad and an army of snakes forming letters that read Dont Kill Us We Live on Bugs.
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Peoria
Henry
LaSalle
New York
America
Chicago
Eee Oes
Pendergast
Indiana
Terra Haute
Ind
Uncle Sam
Wabash
Trailbury Blade
Infernal devices and town fiddling mix in wide range news
The piece notes thwarted infernal machines mailed to prominent Americans including Burleson Rockefeller and Morgan. It also reports Decatur hens trespassing roosters immunity, Peoria hopes a German submarine exhibit up the Illinois river, plus Bureau county estate cases Liberty bonds and local firelosses with depot fires in Wyanet.
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Burleson
John D. Rockefeller
Pierpont Morgan
New York
Decatur
Peoria Ia
Ilinois
Peoria
Navy Department
New Orleans
Mississippi River
U. 8
Trabel
U. S
Union Square
New York City
Bureau County News
Martin Anderson
Bureau County
Sweden
America
Norther
Treasurs
W. W. Ter‘ron
Hunter
Bureau
Princeton
Axel Dahlgren
Iso
Burlington
Wyanet
Illinois Waterway Plan Before Legislature For Great Barge Canal
The administration plan for the Illinois waterway to connect Chicago to the Mississippi River moves through the General Assembly in three bills by Representative Charles A. Gregory and Senator Richard Barr. It outlines an eight foot channel, potential deviations if river routing proves impracticable, state power department authority to build the canal and power plants, and ability to condemn land or enter federal contracts. Bonds of four percent up to twenty million dollars are proposed, issued as needed, to finance construction tied to a broader aim of barges carrying 1,200 to 2,000 ton loads and lowering freight costs across long distances. The plan emphasizes grain and coal transport, with a Chicago to New Orleans route envisioned.
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London
Chicago
General Assembly
Charles A. Gregory
Richard c. Barr
Ilinois
Michigan
Canal
Utica
State Department of Public
Gregory
Mississippi River
Cairo
New Orleans
Illinois
Lockport
la Salle
Illinois Waterway
Assembly
Returns of Information At Source Under Income Tax Act
The income tax act requires all corporations associations joint stock companies partnerships insurance firms and individuals who paid fixed and determinable gains during 1918 or $1 000 000 or more to provide information. Returns on form 1099 and total forms filed forwarded to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Washington DC by June 15 1919. Attend to avoid penalties. obtain blank forms from the Collector of Internal Revenue Peoria Illinois or banks and postmasters.
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Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Washington, DC
Internal Revenue
Peoria
Illinois
Memorial booklet honors Blair and living as memorials
The state superintendent of education issued a "Memorial and Peace Day" booklet featuring patriotic poems and homefront scenes. Superintendent Blair urges daily acts of respect for the living and the dead, noting flowers for living mothers are a fine tribute any day. Rail rate cuts to spur summer travel take effect June 1, with up to 133 percent of wartime increases erased.
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State Superintendent of Education
Blair
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Albert N. Tumlin
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Chattanooga
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United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Anys
Mejor Bros
Majestic
Reds
Thomas
Duke Bros
Leary
W. H
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Magnolia
W.H. Quiram
Lacon
T. H. Gapan & Co
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McM
Henkins & Co
Putnam
Railroad Administration
H. Bradley
New Lehman
Court House
HAYES
Hayes Corn
Hayes Ridge
Hayes Plan
Duke -Bros ‘Henry, Illinois
Kodaks
Henry, Ill
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