Legislative wrap leaves mixed verdict after tense session
Olympia notes recount a 60 day session seen as largely disappointing yet not entirely wastful with an anti pledge bill and peddler licensing. The piece cites committee members Allen Fishback Taylor McMaster Hubbell and a March 30 meeting in the city.
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Royal Arch
Anti-Saloon League
Senate
Hay
Allen and Fishback
Taylor, McMaster
Hubbell
Associated Press
Georgia Prohibition Boosts State Revenues After Yearlong Dry Test
The Georgia experiment with statewide prohibition yielded a notable revenue surplus, with Treasurer Park reporting over a half million dollars more in the last year than the prior year. The Atlanta Georgian and other papers weigh in on the shift, contrasting earlier dire forecasts with the present financial upside.
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Georgia
Treasurer Park
Atlanta Journal
Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta
Nashville Tennesseean
Advertising novelties and calendars for 1910
The Echo announces a large line of calendars wall pockets banners and advertising novelties for 1910. Samples will be shown next month and readers are invited to view prices. The Echo claims it can supply these items cheaper than agents who incur hotel and travel expenses and share profits with employers.
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Clude
Paulhamus
Puyallup
Pierce County
Tumwater Club
Champaign
The
Echo
Where is God, The Sea and The Time Tales
A series of brief humorous vignettes unfolds with a nervous shopper seeking a non existent “Lorna Doone” beverage and a Londoner bragging about wit. The salesman jokes about a Scotch drink while Rev Judson Savage contemplates the sea and light. The tale ends with a New York newsboy’s clever retort about time.
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New York City
Lorna Doone
New York
London
Newsie
Jumbled Anecdotes and Quotes From Public Life
A collection of humorous and reflective vignettes. A boy questions a neighbor, a congressman helps a drunken youth, Mark Twain on books, and Henry Watterson on compromise and truth. Edwin Booth’s anecdote closes the set with a northern Atlanta theater tale.
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Henry Watterson
Theatre goers praise play and cast in Harper's Weekly
Two elderly men discuss a theater visit from Harper's Weekly noting seats in the balcony and orchestra. They compliment the company as excellent and claim the lead performer did as well as any, using period language to describe the crowd and performance.
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Cannel
Niggub
Harper’s Weekly
Nye and Riley Joint Entertainment Note
James Whitcomb Riley and Bill Nye toured together in humorous collision of wit Nye opened with playful brag about tiring the audience then Riley would read his works until they grew weary Nye enjoyed the moment mocking the double act and audience weariness.
Fisherman quips prove mackerel tales and sly wits
A Gloucester dockside tale shows a fisherman denying sight of fish with a joke about splitting them. Other anecdotes feature a Washington teacher and a clever pupil, plus snippets from Harper's Weekly and Ruskin on public and private duties and a quip from a Cork man.
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Theological College
Gloucester
Neptune
John Ruskin
Advertising Wars Between Mail Order and Local Stores
A 1908 pamphlet-style dialogue urges merchants to counter mail order houses with strong advertising and price comparisons. It argues for cash sales, clear price proofs, and loyalty to home retailers while avoiding attacks on catalog firms. It says advertising built mail order growth and remains the sole effective tool to combat it.
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Brown
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Mark Twain
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Booth
John H. Girdner
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Clarence
Ho”— Lippincott’s
Hackett
Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Trate
Cork
Cypress River
Ned
Mars’ Teems
Solomon
Magee
Mary
Henry Herbert Huff
American Press Association
M. F. Peake & Son
General Agency
Leavenworth
L.D. Store Co., Agts
Leavenworth Market
Martin Christenson
Packing House
Emil Frank
Prop
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