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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1892
Page
7
A Rural Carolina page outlines agency work for the State Alliance, urging members to submit orders via Sub Alliance agents with cash, warning against fraudulent schemes, and detailing careful accounting. W. H. Worth and S. C. Litte respond to business practices, stressing prompt remittance and accurate statements.
An Alliance member used deceptive pricing on nails and bar iron to earn excess profit, exposing unfair practices. The piece critiques the Alliance as a social and business group while recounting a mass meeting where agency pricing revealed 20 to 300 percent over Agency prices, prompting a member to quit in frustration.
A letter to business agents and lecturers from W. H. Worts of The Progressive Farmer urges focus on the Agency Trade department. It stresses keeping brethren informed, posting local and agency prices, and guarding against price undercutting, while offering thirty day credit to bonded sub and county agents. The note invites readers to form clubs and read the Agency Department for guidance.
A Norfolk-era notice cautions Brethren about the National Union Company store expansion in North Carolina. The State Executive Committee disavows responsibility for the National Union Company's actions and urges adherence to the current Business Agency system. Fraternally signed by W. H. Wourts S. B. A.
Raueien North Carolina March 19 1892 issues bond to obtain 30 day terms forSub-Alliance agents. The list covers sugar soda pepper coffee molasses flour canned goods soap lard and other staples with prices by city including Philadelphia Richmond and Wilmington. It also lists farm implements seeds gunpowder and tobacco products, plus assorted machinery and supplies and notes market fluctuations and carriage terms.
D M Osborne & Co advertises the No. 4 Osborne Mower combining light draught durability convenience and good material. It promotes an all steel self damp Hay Rake with no decaying material loose tires warped axles or broken parts and notes reapers and steel spring tooth harrows remain leading. Catalogues and terms available on request.
A Raleigh based list names W. H. Worth S. B. A. in Raleigh and agents across North Carolina including Owen H. Bishop Salisbury T S Hoover Emanuel J Flanigan Statesville J W Hardin Sons Graham W 3 Walker Vincent Geo A Warlick Newton J D Armstrong Rocky Mount J H Harris Greensboro Tomlinson Johnston Mooresville J W Holcombe Wilmott J J C Harris Ephesus P Jas Webb Jr and Bro Hillsboro Emry and Pierce Weldon J L Winner Wilmington Smith and Yelverton Goldsboro J S Timberlake Youngsville. (78¢)
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