Hold on to Trade and Towns to Cure Centralization
Reverend Frank Gunsaulus argues against centralization of population and commerce in large cities. He urges regular sermons by trusted local leaders to foster rural growth, warns that city overconcentration harms surrounding towns, and cites newspapers and Blackwell depot projects as models of community improvement and civic pride.
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Frank Gunsaulus
Chicago
Hardware
Tristary
Wei
Preston
Poparton
Cape Shores
Mneddine Partie Opinion
Shere
Por Soto Aontins Pardware
Qwicken
Mierswell
Maxwell's ‘Palisi
Dite
Gomne
Town Cow Civic Improvement Efforts in August 1900
Civic groups in Lugton and nearby towns mobilized to beautify streets, sidewalks, and parks. Members funded waste disposal, planted trees, and created flower beds while pushing for a public library. The press played a key role by exposing filth and spurring cleanup campaigns.
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Civie
Lugton
Teta
Ctu
Muubers
Chip
Ds Hanibed
Une Aren
Darren Square
Ocadive
Mulroad Company
Comanerehat Offh
Cho
VO Nore
Buyers Outside Town Hurt Local Trade, Writer Says
A well known writer on home trade argues that mail order shopping drains money from rural communities, weakening local merchants and public funds. The piece, echoed by Willi and Aten White of Kanporiga, urges citizens to support town shops to sustain schools, services, and civic welfare.
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Ambible
Eolfeetar
Eivery
Allegianece
Behard AL Erste
Bato
Camda
Willi
Aten White
Kanporiga
Tus
Wniporia
Staudine
Industrhal
Bioporta
Orbual
Lome
Street trees need more room to grow and shade
A discussion notes streets lack ample space for trees. With only a yard wide sunlit strip, shade trees are stunted and scarce. When new towns are plotted, planners should dedicate more room for proper growth and canopy development.
Prosperity congress meets as Berkman clashes with suffragists
At New York's interstate prosperity congress two rival groups confront each other. Alexander Berkman leads a dispers ed faction claiming 40,000 unemployed. Suffragists demand recognition while Henry Clews predicts farmers will have funds this fall. A resolution recognizes the unemployed committee and urges strengthened rail regulation and anti discrimination rates.
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Commercial Travelers' Interstate Prosperity Congress
New York
Alexander Berkman
H. Dc. Frick
Homestead
Berkman
Prosperity Congress
Congress
Prosperity Movement
Henry Clews
Interstate Commerce Commission
Italian Hotelkeeper Slain in Brooklyn by Assassins
Pleo Barilla, a Woodhaven hotelkeeper, was found dead on Lincoln road in Whatbush Brooklyn after a bicycle ride to a suspected meeting. He suffered four stab wounds and two bullet wounds. a blood writ ten letter and a large roll of bills with a gold watch were found. Antonio Del Marto, Barilla cousin, is held for investigation amid notes suggesting a blackband plot.
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Lincoln Road
Whatbush
D Brooklyn
Pleo Barilla
Woodhaven
Barilla
Antonio del Marto
Newton Seen as Clean, Well Regulated Kansas Town
Traveling salesman Gordon Whyte praised Newton Kansas as clean and well regulated in a Sexton Hotel interview. He noted the 9000 population and a strong communal pride in maintaining tidy streets with little litter, calling it a moral code embraced by residents.
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Newton
Kansas
Gordon Whyte
Sexton Hotel
Patronize Home Stores and Strengthen Community
A call to readers to support local businesses over mail order and distant outlets. It argues that spending in town builds neighborly respect, mutual dependence, and civic loyalty, warning that outsourcing sales hurts local jobs and the community’s well being. Subscribe for The Semi-Weekly Herald.
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Focal
Vaesa
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Blackwells
Sid
Blackwell
Pactic
Rathedrim
Colt
Tennessee
Seattle
Noitty Brook
California
Drummer
Herald
SyiNaan
U. S. Patent Office
Washington, D. C
Mars
Hediey
Munn & Co
Scientific American
ANN & Go
F St
Washington, D
Humphareys
Witch Hazel
Drugalats
Humphreys
Standard Oil Company (Incorporated
Farquhar
Thos
Larson Hardware Co
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