Lesson From Trolley Cards Encourages Home Trade
In Bronx borough New York City trolley car ads urge riders to buy goods at local stores, arguing that home trade preserves prosperity, wages, and social ties. The piece cautions against mail order catalogs and touts neighborly commerce, cooperation, and the mutual benefits of buying locally.
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Bronx Borough
New York City
Bronx
Dustless Ash Removal Scheme Prompts City Funding Request
Street Cleaning Commissioner Ed wards of New York asked the finance committee of the board of aldermen for 15000 to test a dustless removal plan. The proposal would carry ash cans from houses to the dump directly without carts, funding an auto car carrier a relay truck cans and dustless covers. The idea aims to keep towns cleaner and healthier.
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Edwards
New York
Board of Aldermen
Don’t Murder Your Trees Signboards Harm Street Trees
Large signboards placed against street trees with iron bands injure sap circulation and harm both top and root. Neglect leads to half dead trees standing before residences, as owners fail to remove dry limbs and renew exhausted soil.
A drummer warns towns on main street upkeep
A traveling drummer who visits fifty towns in Illinois and Indiana argues that failing to keep the main business street in repair drives away farmers and traders, causing the town to lose its best business leaders over time.
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Illinois
Indiana
Improving Rural Schools and Schoolroom Health
A call for mandatory physical exams for school children and improvements in classroom air and cleanliness. It urges parents to demand notification and public health actions to prevent infectious diseases like tuberculosis from spreading in unventilated rooms. The piece questions parental neglect of health checks alongside academic progress.
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Jimmie Brown
Board of Health
Jimmie
Make Your Trade By Building Quality Not Cheapness
A hardware firm urges dealers to reject cheap slogans and pursue quality and worth. It argues that sustained profit and prestige come from selling good goods and maintaining a reputation for inherent goodness, not low prices or bargain framing.
Boost Your Business by Tightening Small Retail Operations
A study of small retailer methods shows profit erosion from lack of system and poorly controlled expenses. Frequent issues include unclear cost, narrow margins, fashion-driven price concessions, neglected show windows, and dull store interiors. Some rural merchants still build profitable trades from modest starts.
Business hints from a practical merchant
A merchant reflects on leadership and civic virtue in retail. The piece argues that growth must match directing capacity, stores advertise via order and price transparency, and that customer perception hinges on sharp merchandising and fair practices. It stresses plain pricing and conscientious service as keys to success.
Keeping Your Own Town Alive
An opinion piece urging towns to combat factionalism and foster social life through libraries reading rooms and civic clubs. It advocates small levies or subscriptions to fund gyms reading rooms and programs, and stresses youth engagement as a measure of a town’s vitality. It envisions municipal talks and community entertainments with broad public participation.
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Brotherhood of Man
A New Hampshire Man Richard Pattee Sketch
Richard Pattee born April 27, 1872 in Alexandria New Hampshire. He advanced through New Hampton academy Minneapolis University of Minnesota shorthand led to newspaper work. He later studied economics and law at Dartmouth and engaged in real estate in Ashland before moving to Plymouth. Active in grange and Masonic and Knights of Pythias orders, he married in 1905 and has one son.
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Richard Pattee
Alexandria
N. H
New Hampton Academy
Minneapolis
Minn
University of Minnesota
South
Middle West
New Hampshire
New Hampton
Dartmouth
Ashland
Plymouth
New Hampton Grange
Lake and
Pomona
N. J. Bachelder
State Grange
Pattee
Masonic Lodge
Knights of Pythias Lodge
Pennsylvania Railroad Promotes Great Lakes Sailings Via Anchor Line
The Anchor Line steamships offer a scenic Great Lakes voyage from Buffalo to Duluth with stops at Erie Cleveland Detroit Mackinac Island Soo Marquette Houghton and Hancock. The 1910 season opened May 31 with the Juniata Tionesta and Octorara sailing and tickets available through Pennsylvania Railroad agents.
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Great Lakes
United States
Canada
Atlantic
Great Lake
Lakes
Detroit River
Lake St. Clair
Great Ship Canal
Lake
Lake Huron
Soo
Lake and Canal
Michigan
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Duluth
Juniata
Tionesta
Octorara
Erie
Cleveland
Detroit
Mackinac Island
Seo
Marquette
Houghton
Hancock
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Danvers Grange Plans Prize Garden Contest for School Children
The Danvers Massachusetts grange launches a home garden contest for town school children. Thirty six prizes and gratuities totaling $45 will be awarded across nine grades for the best garden and yard improvements. Flower seeds sold to contestants, with home instruction and teacher supervision.
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Danvers
Mass
Civic League
Salem
Granges Upset Over Free Seeds From Congress
Washington granges resist free seed distributions from national lawmakers. Grange secretaries relay seeds to members, sparking calls to end the practice. Critics say seeds clog the mails and hinder parcels post. some urge burning unsold stock rather than mailing it.
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Washington State
National Capital
Grange
Washington
State
Congress
New Grange Ritual Released With Revisions and Diagrams
The ritual of the order abridged by removing the single degree work and enhanced by many suggestions and instructions plus illustrative diagrams is now ready for distribution from the offices of the secretaries of state granges.
Insurance assessment rate in Pa trons Fire Insurance Co
The Patrons Fire Insurance Company of St. Lawrence and Franklin counties New York set the yearly assessment rate at 1.50 per thousand for the year ending October 15. What rate are you paying for your policy.
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Patrons’ Fire Insurance Company
St. Lawrence
Franklin Counties
N. Y
Why Teacher Wailed
A nervous pupil faces a brutal examiner who mocks his fear and prompts a whale anatomy joke. The boy responds stammering with a quip about leaving bones on the sides of plates, provoking further classroom tension as London Answers is cited.
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London
Useful Home Gardens Method of Laying Out and Cultivating It
Rural readers learn to maximize family gardens by using stable and barnyard manures as core fertilizers. Emphasizes constant cultivation to keep soil fertile and weed-free, with long rows for horse cultivation, ample turning space, and planning to match family needs.
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