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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1907
Page
3
D M Carr argues that U S farmers produce wealth greater than mining and that wealth concentration in financial centers supports trusts. He urges farmers to adopt home trade principles and patronize local businesses to retain prosperity in agricultural communities.
A critique of domestic waste argues intelligence and arithmetic are key to smart shopping and cooking. It contrasts American to French behavior, urging proper buying, budgeting, and meal planning to cut costs and improve nutrition for all social classes.
A speaker argues crime stems from physical state and diet, not just mind. He links meat consumption and unsound body to brain disturbance, suggesting summer crime spikes and questioning dietary influence on honesty, with notes on vegetarian claims and the need for further study.
A local column urges residents to support hometown businesses to avoid draining wealth to foreign firms. It argues mail order shipping harms small towns, noting 40 to 50 percent of rural trade leaves the area. Keeping trade local could double business, boost employment, and grow population within the district.
The statement explains that real value comes from raw materials labor and distribution costs. It warns buyers to beware of inferior articles when big bargains promise goods below value and stresses verifying quality.
The farmer relies on the local paper for current prices and goods, while merchants use its columns to sell. Advertising keeps business in town, and merchants who enable out-of-town buyers risk losing customers by neglecting local promotion.
It is prudent to beware of itinerant agents and random dealers of groceries carriages machinery patent rights. Never pay before inspecting what you buy. See what you are purchasing before paying for it.
The article urges housewives to watch spending and avoid club or premium schemes that lure with cheap goods and distant sellers. It warns soaps spices extracts and teas bought via clubs are often inferior and overpriced, with premiums worth far less than claimed. Buy locally to see quality and ensure returns.
Capt A M Scott recalls a dramatic Civil War incident where bushwhackers hanged a farmer near Helena Arkansas in 1863 before a cavalry unit intervened. The narrative contrasts wartime atrocity with a later dramatic hunter of justice as the murderers faced the scaffold.
A critical piece argues mail order firms use flashy claims to lure rural shoppers. It condemns their lower local prices, says quality suffers, and warns against draining wealth from farming districts. It ties mail order to trust growth and calls residents to protect hometown merchants.
An 1860s memoir recounts a double fraud by false hospital solicitations and a bushwhacker raid. It details a Minnesota farmer scam and a Confederate court martial that hanged two band leaders, with one spy executed later at Little Rock. The narrator reflects on grim war days and enduring memory of conflict.
The article urges remembrance of Civil War survivors as they grow few with time. It cites moral duty to memory, quotes Buddhist belief on right memory, and echoes Detroit Free Press on veterans' virtues and sacrifice for a government of the people.
A Washington Star quote contrasts an unnamed artist with the dealer who sold a forged painting. The connoisseur labels the painter an artist, while Mr. Comrox admits uncertainty about the artist but blames the dealer who sold the work.
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