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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1893
Page
7
A 1893 notice outlines the State Business Agent’s page in The Progressive Farmer. It invites communications, urges plain shipping directions, and explains billing, credits, and return policies. It highlights alliances with factories for shoes and machines, and promotes price lists, catalogs, and ongoing business plans.
The note promotes Clover seed quality and low acre costs, urges early guano orders for spring delivery, and includes endorsements about sewing machines and farm supplies. Letters from Worth and Batcheter discuss seed reliability, machinery value, and price lists in Nash County North Carolina.
A Boston house secures 1893 shoe contracts and offers 5000 shoe almanacs to applicants. The notice promises free freight across North Carolina and cites satisfaction with the shoe maker. It includes a series of trade notes on shipping efficiency and brand consolidation for brethren.
Local sewing machine sellers face questions from members as to what defines standard. The Improved Farmers Alliance machine is pitched as a high grade, first class unit with latest improvements and a 10 year warranty, offered at less than half the agents' price and with a 10 day trial and return option.
W H Worts asserts sewing machines built with superior steel last a lifetime while retail prices rise due to costly sales methods. He urges Raleigh shoppers to visit him, promising benefits to the State Alliance. The piece stresses prudent Alliance credit and prompt repayment to protect members.
A rural alliance office urges business agents to remit promptly within thirty days of each bill. It explains minimal brokerage losses from delays, stresses inspecting goods on receipt, and warns against collecting or C O D shipments. The notice assigns W H Worth and W H Woarst as contacts and invites counties to hire a lecturer.
Notice states officers invited to address the State Alliance may have expenses covered only for regular work. communications to the Executive Committee should go to Capt. S. B. Alexander via W. Barnes. secretary notes Polk Memorial Fund money should go to H. W. Ayer. lists prices and orders for Farmers' Alliance material and supplies with payment terms and delivery details.
State Business Agent cites instructions from the State Executive Committee about filling orders only with full cash or with bonded County and Sub-Business Agents. It sets a thirty day remittance window for those bonds and warns that uninformed brethren may face consequences.
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