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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1894
Page
7
The piece argues money is essential to trade between producers and manufacturers and that lack of money, not overproduction, causes hard times. It urges legislators to prioritize money access, criticizes middlemen as nonessential, and condemns political missteps by the Democratic party cited by D. M. Payne.
The document names Supreme Court Chief Justice William T. Faircloth of Wayne county and Associate Justices Walter Clark Wake county David M. Furbes Iredell Walter A Montgomery Wake county with district judges Edward W Timberlake Franklin William S. O B Robison Wayne Albert L. Coble Iredell Henry K R Starbuck Forsyth Leander L Green Watauga and William L Norwood Haywood. It also lists solicitors W J Leary W E Daniel M Bernard E W Poll W P Bynum M C Richardson H F Seawell J Holton Marshall Mott J E Spainhour J L Webb and R S McCall with terms of four years.
A weekly subscription note thanks numerous readers across North Carolina for renewals and continued support. Counted givers include A H Hudgins Gates county J W Cox Surry county L Query Mecklenburg county P G Perkins Wayne county A H Gregory Granville county Thomas L Day Bamboo J P Tucker Lenoir county J M Flippin Surry county J A Smith Alamance county Henry Knight Chatham county A W Hoffman Gaston county Those Shelton Iredell county and many other subscribers express appreciation and pledge to keep reading The Progressive Farmer.
J A Gordon of Hillsboro seeks the Senate door keeper post. He chairs the Populist Executive Committee of Orange County, respected and reliable, presented as a faithful and acceptable officer by W E Waite. Materfamilias quips aside about a daughter's suitor in a humorous aside from the New York Herald.
W S Barnes announces expanded services through the Egg Exchange including turkey shipments to Northern markets after December 1st and expert poultry dressers to obtain best prices. He also offers undertakers supplies such as linings hardware caskets coffins and burial robes for men women and children to counties with small businesses.
The letter advises shipping first class beef cattle weighing 700 to 900 pounds for best returns though current market is slow with oversupply in Norfolk and Richmond. It warns against sending small chickens, urges ready eggs for September with Boston house seeking carload weekly, and signs off by W H Wort 8 B A.
Prices for exchanged washed wool at 30 cents per pound unwashed at 24 cents per pound and blankets at 400 dollars per pair. Rates for flannel dress goods yarn and finishing services offered. Instructions on wool preparation, greasing, carding, spinning, weaving and freight terms. Signed by W. H. Worth and S. B. A.
Notice to wool shippers. Individuals with wool for exchange into blankets dress goods pant goods or white flannel or to be worked up should contact W H Worts 8 B A for shipping instructions. Do not ship wool to the author.
The document outlines price ranges for pants and shoes, notes Raleigh stock and special orders, and urges early orders for cane mills and crimson clover seed. It promotes the Alliance Produce Exchange in Raleigh for eggs and other farm products, lists current market values for eggs and poultry, and provides detailed instructions on bantling and packing poultry for the Boston market, including killing, dressing, and box packing. It stresses member-only pricing, monthly price corrections, and shipping guidelines.
Pays 18 cents for No 1 eggs whole gale Turkeye 6 to 8 cents per lb alive W S Barnes Manager Note to the Brethren I have just returned from a trip to Norfolk Virginia and I find that it pays.
Notice from Raleigh dated May 3 1894 states nonmembers purchasing Alliance Sewing Machines after this date will pay 22 50 unless orders show the Alliance seal. The notice notes about fifteen hundred machines sold and comments on satisfaction attributed to the seller W H Wor u 8 B A.
Special notice urges attention to a forthcoming price list from the Business Agency set for August 1. The firm touts superior contracts across many goods and vows broad offerings at unprecedented prices to brethren. The list will include dry goods notions shoes pants with items shipped from Raleigh. It notes 49 pant patterns and that Raleigh manufacture keeps local work.
A disputed local note from Concorp North Carolina dated November 14 1894 accuses the Democratic ruling board of forcing higher bond demands on Populist officials to curb voting power. The writer urges crushing the machine and cites Sheriff and Treasurer suggests political manipulation. A separate vignette shows a professor told a visitor a son arrived as a nurse enters.
Washington report shows defeated House members asked the sergeant-at-arms to send mileage for missed short-session sittings. The note suggests their absence contributed to their defeat, a point highlighted by the Charlotte Observer.
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