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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1892
Page
7
A North Carolina Farm ers State Alliance notice urges agents to publish best papers and offer a one year subscription for fifty cents. It details pricing on garden seed, bacon terminology, freight charges, and cash with orders, plus procedures for handling funds, bonds, and deliveries. It notes a Durham Fertilizer trial and requests careful signings and post office addresses.
Roxiea North Carolina February 27 1892 notice to sub business agents offering 30 days on bills, requiring bonds via sub alliance juries. Includes extensive price list across numerous goods such as sugar pepper coffee meat coal and farm tools, with cash discounts and carload terms, urging prompt orders and correct post office details.
A civic call urges unity with the Alliance amid opposition. The speaker notes about half the population earns by laboring for others and argues the Alliance’s fertilizer purchases exceed a million and a half dollars annually, stressing cheaper distribution through four channels. The message emphasizes collective action to achieve success.
Subscribers are notified that the Business Agent is discontinued because the Postoffice Department cannot mail it as second class. Subscriptions will be credited to The Progressive Farmer unless refunded. The note extols direct purchasing, warns against trading agents, and condemns a scheme selling a machine for twenty dollars that one man bought for forty.
The article argues for a cooperative trade focus within the Alliance to boost meetings and profits. It urges members to use business agents to supply goods, notes lodges that succeed through trade, and lists multiple late 19th century member deaths and obituaries from Guilford and Wake counties, including Union Alliance and Okisko Alliance members.
Coal Creek Feb 24 Privates were fired upon by bushwhackers during a patrol. A corporal returned fire with a single shot. a ground plow was raised as the struggle ended without further detail. Military authorities report the incident as a bushwhacking confrontation with no confirmed fatalities.
An old time advertisement touts O S Cure For Cures Where All Else Fails as best cough syrup with claiming taste and timely use. It warns that goods are not in stock and orders are mailed to manufacturer the same day, with delivery times varying by distance. A separate notice from North Carolina Allied groups rejects National Union Company store openings in the state, urging adherence to the business agency system.
A promotional note touts the No 4 Osborne mower com as a first class mower. It highlights light draughtness durability convenience and good material with a claim of unmatched quality.
North Carolina agents listed with locations including Rocky Mount Salisbury Emanuel Statesville Graham Vincent Newton Raleigh Mooresville Wilmot Ephesus Weldon and Greensboro. Names include Armstrong Bishop Hoover Flanigan Hardin Walker Warlice Worth Harris Tomlinson Johnston Holcombe J Harris Webb Weldon Emry Weldon.
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