Daily Jottings Friday to Thursday Social Notes
The notes chronicle a week of local gatherings and events including birthday dinners, pre nuptial showers, club meetings, family visits, and movings. Notable items mention Miss Harriet Mitchell’s upcoming wedding, Mrs Dorchester of Anaconda as a dinner guest, a Santa Claus surprise for Mrs Bowman’s boarders, and community store moves in Delmar amid a sequence of lunches, bridge games, and social visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Myatt
A. L. Cook
W. CO. Swigart
West Pleasant Street
Congregational Missionary Society
John Cook
Main’ St
Jennie Allen
Hospital of Reconstruction
Alexandria
Claude Harrington
James Round
B.F. Bowman
Newspaper Advertising vs Circular Letters Debate
The article argues that circular letters often fail to match newspaper ads in boosting trade while acknowledging some benefit from personal appeals. It notes that many leading city merchants have moved away from circulars, though a well crafted letter to patrons can aid newspaper campaigns when not using cold, boilerplate phrases.
Newspaper as town sponsor in upbuilding local business
A prominent farm paper writer argues that newspapers act as the town’s public voice and promotional megaphone, assisting merchants, churches, clubs, and events, while noting merchants overlook this service amid a modern advertising shift away from circulars and toward direct campaigns and measured results.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Eversharp
Pocket Books
Brunswicks
Brunswick Records
Ivory
Kodak
Ella Mahony
Davenport
H. F. Follett
Irma Hubbell
Harriet Mitchell
Emas
Walter Dutton
Near Iron
Ed Raab
J. A. Wherry
Leonard Wherry
Jack
A. C. Law
Clinton
E. A. Phillips
Wm. Pence
E. Wal- Miss Dorsthy
E. E. Wesner
Bridge
N. E. Buttsworth
H.W. Dorchester
Fred Gurius
Q. UR
A. J. Bodkin
Ray S. Grant
BR. G
Santa Claus
McGinty
Adam Ringlep
A. G. Miller
Graham Flat
Mesdames
Will Cundill
Fannie Goodenow
Fred H. Young
H. W. Dorchester
H. M. Cassin
Delmar
A. A. Hurst
Fomet
Gruen
Louis Xtv
Gent’s
Elgin
Waltham
Hamilton
South Bend
Hampden
Gallagher's Jewelry Store
Paris
Frodsham
Gruen Watchmakers Guild
Butterworth Boot Shop
L. T. Martensen Dry Goods Co
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