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Newspaper
Huron Weekly World
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1905
Page
4
A readable fragment notes a location at 222 Dakota Avenue in Huron South Dakota between Second and Third Streets marked for a Thursday event or activity. No further details are provided about the event or organizers.
Fifty local merchants signed a front page statement vowing to duplicate or beat Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward prices, offering cash goods with local returns and guarantees, arguing for shopping at home over Chicago suppliers amid frost and regional notes. The piece also notes a late 1905 killing frost in South Dakota and commentary from Madison Outlook and Huron World editors.
Local appeal urges residents to trade with Huron home merchants rather than out-of-town firms. It cites Sears Roebuck Montgomery Ward catalogs and T M Roberts as comparisons, urging shoppers to show prices and keep money circulating locally.
A Minneapolis Tribune excerpt argues for returning to direct campaign funding by individuals, condemns large corporate contributions for self serving aims, and questions the use and accounting of a ten percent state Republican assessment last year. It asks who benefited and why records were burned.
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