Cotton market warns South to stand steady in face of bearish bears
The Cotton Journal urges farmers merchants bankers and business leaders of the South to resist price manipulation as a large or small 1908 cotton crop nears. It argues prices below 10 cents a pound hurt growers while mills can absorb at 10 to 12 cents, and calls for coordinated action to avoid 8 cent concessions. It notes Europe predicts high or low yields and highlights current shortages in raw cotton.
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South
Europe
Cotton Journal
Liverpool
Merchants urged to advertise for upcoming business
The Marietta Journal advises merchants to boost advertising as the busy season opens. It warns that well displayed ads transform a full stock into profit and waiting for customers without ads is as foolish as expecting a garden to grow without seed.
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Marietta Journal
The
Journal
Near-Beer Tax Collected Set to Go to State Treasury
Atlanta reporters note Georgia's near beer tax will be collected by county ordinaries rather than tax collectors. Dealers face 200 dollar per dealer and 500 dollar per manufacturer levies plus a 3 percent commission that now goes to nobody. The state treasury will receive all revenues with no local sharing.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Bear Resorts
General Assembly
Advertisement for Jackson’s 5 and 10 cent store
An ad urges readers not to miss Jackson’s new bargain store promising honesty and good deals. It notes frequent customers and boasts of a business built on honesty bargains and printer’s ink. The ad also announces old newspapers for sale at Tite Harrawon office at 25 cents per hundred.
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Jacksons
Tite Hrrawon
Advertising boosts ailing business seeks quicker reach
Local notices urge readers to invest in ads confident that publicity is the remedy for slumping trade. The piece argues advertising works around the clock, cautions against waiting until decline worsens, and touts reasonable rates offered by the paper.
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Hess
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Goodman
Tom and
Arthur
Sandersville Drug Co
Sandersville, GA
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Bryan
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Daily Georgian
Herald and Watson
Jeffersonian
Thos. J. Swint
Lanersville
First National Bank
Sandersville High
J. M. Stovall
Sandersville
Herald and Tribune
H. M. Franklin
Tennille, Georgia
Wood Yard
Tennille
Tennille, Ga
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