11 Nov 1909
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Newspaper
Scotland Neck The Commonwealth
Location
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1909
Page
1
The Athens Messenger argues readers may skip ads yet not read advertising or sales efforts. It compares ad space to rented stores and sales calls to canvassing, noting waste in both advertising and retail. The piece mockingly labels willful ad dismissers as anaemic, not readers.
The Monroe Enquirer argues that shutting mills for short periods won't lower cotton prices. The aim is to lift prices for cotton goods by reducing surplus and output, ensuring mill owners gain from higher raw cotton prices even as the market shifts.
A Greensboro News report notes Fairfield Texas remained dry after a recent vote despite license applications. The town's five hundred person limit capped licenses, already granted to leading prohibitionists, preventing any new saloons. The item endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a faster cold cure sold by E. T. Whitehead Company.
A New Bern Journal opinion urges merchants to measure the returns from newspaper ads and to adopt targeted advertising. It warns that skeptical local merchants enable mail order rivals by failing to promote goods locally, noting how pack ages arriving from out of town shift business away from local shops.
The Massachusetts annual insurance report lists salaries for major life insurers. Equitable pays 80,000, Metropolitan 90,000, and Prudential 65,000, the highest figures among firms doing business in the state. Other large companies pay under 50,000, while regional giants such as Massachusetts Mutual, New England Mutual, State Mutual, Berkshire, and John Hancock range from 12,000 to 22,708. Numerous national firms show 15,000 to 29,340, with several around 25,000. The piece urges scaling down salaries, not increasing them, noting a trend reversal should continue.
The Salisbury Watchman reports on road work in Rowan involving clearing and grading ditches, forming a central mound, applying sand, and plowing to mix sand and clay to eight inches. The surface is then shaped from ditches to center, watered, and rolled. Side ditches and culverts are added to drain water, with promising wear once completed.
A Nebo Kentucky grandmother, Mrs Maria Taylor, writes that Bucksen’s Arnica Salve wholly cured her scalded grandson after doctors thought he would die. The ad proclaims the salve infallible for burns and skin ailments and notes it sells for 25 cents at E T Whitehead Company.
The Dayton News asserts public opinion now shapes governance worldwide and will push officials toward duty, fair laws, arbitration over conflict, and peaceful labor relations as newspapers stir awakening and action across nations.
The article notes United States Department of Agriculture research on seedless persimmons from the Far East, aiming to remove the fruit’s puckeriest unripe stage. It praises persimmons as palatable when ripe after frosts and mentions a harmless beer made with persimmons and wild locusts, urging support for seedless trials.
English statistics show a surplus of 1.07 million women, driven by a lower female death rate. Despite high marriage rates, many women seek economic independence, as 20 years of spousal support cover only ages 35 to 55. In 1901 some 35.5 percent of women over 12 were occupied, yet many left work on marriage, per promontory notes from London correspondence via the New York Times.
A North Carolina delegate to the Daughters of the Confederacy is described as wearing only her natural hair, an unstyled ratless head noted as a rare charm. The Houston Post features a quirky aside about fashion and a soap ad promoting Dean's Ointment for stubborn skin conditions.
Two noblemen of royal blood seek Miss Marjorie Gould in a high society bid for her hand. One is a Russian duke and kinsman of the czar, the other backed by Emperor Francis Joseph. Both poised to cross the Atlantic as New York papers chase every move. Gould may choose a wealthy American over titles, while courtship races unfold with society watching keenly.
The Biltmore forest covers about 130000 acres and is highly productive. Annually four million feet of lumber five thousand cords of tannic acid wood and fuel and a thousand cords of tan bark plus several hundred cords of pulp wood are harvested. Permanent logging roads cut costs and provide fire protection while expanding investment value. Experimental silviculture work advances forestry science and practice.
The Youth's Companion previews 250 good stories of adventure and heroism in 1910, with many true-feeling tales disguised in names and places. It notes serials, 1.75-dollar subscriptions, and the Venetian Calendar for 1910 plus 1909 issues remaining after payment.
George Washington, hatchet in hand, ends interview with his father. He notes that choosing a cherry tree over the North Pole would have left his motives and veracity open to decades of dispute, a quip attributed to the Washington Star.
A travelogue notes Klondike residents shun nickels and dimes, preferring higher denomination coins. Bar patrons regarded small change with contempt as wages and prices in the north skew higher and smaller coins disappear from everyday transactions. The piece also mentions a tobacco incident and a bookstore owner who complains about patrons damaging books.
A Minnesota governor's friend recalls his clean speech and pure thoughts, praising him as a model, while noting that such virtue should also apply to women and reflect on the era's expectations, amid a fragmented passage about a damaged journal.
A playful game idea circulates in the Waverly Democrat inviting readers to write a note on paper, fold it with a banknote and a year in advance, then give it to the editor. If the editor smiles, the stunt succeeds, and it can be mailed as well.
A World sports page editorial mockingly questions women golfers form and capability, criticizing coverage that mocks female experts while pondering their ability to compete, reflecting gender bias in early 20th century sports reporting.
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