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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1913
Page
4
The Methodist Assembly will be held at Arcadia from July 22 to August 3 with a lengthy list of lecturers ministers and singers. For details write Rev R A Vaughan Arcadia Missouri. The region suffers from heat and drought with numerous deaths in Chicago and other cities and widespread crop damage including scarce early potatoes and limited corn and oats outlook.
Hon Beynon is named revenue clerk in State Auditor Gordon s office with a salary of 1800 a year. Mr Brydon, vice president of the Southeast Missouri Press association, has served Stockland county in the legislature and is the current member. The piece notes a transition of responsibilities to Walker and expresses mixed regard for changes affecting Brydon and local interests.
A 1894 tariff debate chapter unfolds with Democratic pledges from 1892 clashing against powerful lobbies in the Senate. Gorman and Price backed amendments restoring duties after a House-passed bill cut rates on woolen goods cottons linen silk pig iron and more. Senate changes totaled 634, reversing much of the relief sought by Democrats as public discussion centered on free trade versus protection. The piece notes liberal reductions once welcomed by Democrats and the political fight that followed across the country.
Big reduction sale at N J Whce Carver s store features markdowns across dry goods dress goods notions millinery hats shoes groceries and related items. shoppers spending five dollars in one day receive 25 pounds of granulated sugar for a dollar. the sale invites all locals to browse, compare prices, and seek bargains.
The article critiques the rise of mail order houses as a destructive trust, claiming they exploit women and prison labor while draining profits from local retailers. It cites Wall Street finance, proposed heavy taxes on mail order sales, and calls for road-building funded by such taxes. It notes public sentiment against large-scale merchants and records local notices about community events and obituaries.
C A Walker advertises gasoline and oil stoves with a guarantee of satisfaction. The offer includes ice cream freezers refrigerators screen doors windows and screen wire plus furniture for weddings or home refurnishing. Also Mason jars caps rings tin and milk cans and Old’s Cream Separator is touted.
The speaker questions who pays for local improvement and who bears the burden when crops fail or strikes halt cash. They defend the local merchant against Wall Street mail order houses, insisting on low living costs without exploiting women wage slaves in Chicago or the many small merchants nationwide.
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