Mail order evil threats to country merchants and towns
A Missouri association speaker warns editors that mail order houses harm rural merchants, urging a coordinated press campaign. He cites postal box numbering changes, a proposed parcels post, and massive catalogue sales that have displaced thousands of small-town retailers, urging readers to support local merchants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office Department
New York
San Francisco
Post Ofice Department
Ter
Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery-Ward
Chicago
North Dakota
Montgomery, Ward & Co
United States
Proposed highway across state to stretch from St Louis to Kansas City
The State Highway Engineer Curtis Hill of Columbia Mo is available to aid counties with road plans and cost estimates. The proposed state road would be funded by local assessments under the 1905 Road District law, spread over twenty years at a low rate per acre. The $500,000 General Revenue fund is allocated to counties by assessed valuation, with matching local contributions required.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rmail
Adour
Feonsumers
Chicago
Kansas City
St. Louis
Kentucky
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Montgomery, Ward & Co
Missouri
Iowa
Illinois
State Board of Agriculture
General Revenue Fund
Curtis Hill
Columbia
Geo. B. Ellis
Appeal to curb mail order firms in Missouri
A speaker urges editors to treat the issue as a personal matter and to use their papers to mobilize public sentiment against mail order concerns in Missouri. He asserts editors hold power to excise these businesses and asks readers to do their share for the country and town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geoome
Schulte
Inter-@tete Grocer
Minsourh Peeks Associa
Missouri
Love Is an Intoxication and Other Quips From a Penny Dreadful
A garbled collection of humorous snippets and social musings on love money labor and youth appearing in a late 19th or early 20th century periodical style. It references April Showers May flowers and various mock aphorisms. The text mocks sentiment and modern life with paradoxes and slang. It mentions a mountain of soap and a Manitowee voyage as imagined satire.
Fragmented comic rows mix quips and stage talk
A jumble of grotesque snippets references watchmakers, chorus girls, padded cells and dog faux pas. The piece blends light music, misheard lines, a burglar anecdote, a salon quip about hair and a nod to John Morley and his lapdog.
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Jagea
Winksly
John Morley
Chicago Journal
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Missouri Retail Merchants’ Association
Folk
Kansas
Sears & Roebuck
Montgomery Ward & Co
United States Supreme Court
America
Rolla
April
Aieorss
Ambtton
Este
Bobo Harvesters
Susan Hee Gee
Manitoweer
Cordle Hunt
Big Rock
Tri le Oring
Willie Fe
Hettie
Lew Hich
Wilconein
Joder's
Joder
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