Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor of State as chief police officer personally responsible for safety of our representatives John Peel and Vernon Allen while in your state. According to telegrams reaching us from Representative Peel today his life was threatened by thugs in the employ of textile corporations in Ware Shoals and the local police authorities in that place instead of affording Peel proper protection in the fulfillment of his duties deported him to another part of the State. We insist that the organizers and members of the United Textile Workers of America be adequately protected in the legitimate pursuit of organization activities...
Will you not arrange to cover San Francisco news by means of a correspondent on horseback? This would simplify local news greatly for those of us who haven't a great deal of time to devote to wading through the local press, especially the Call, the staff of which evidently depends upon TIME for Golden Gate Highlights as proved by the enclosed article clipped bodily from TIME. This would give San Franciscans six free evenings a week, daylight savings time. Thanks for solving, partially, at least, the hair-snipping mystery of 1915. Congratulations also upon your Mill Valley fire...
...would make no loans to individuals at all. none to cooperatives until they had exhausted local credit...
Halterophera Capitata. The Board has done some preliminary relief work on the citrus fruit situation in Florida where the ravages of the Mediterranean fruit fly (Halterophera capitata) had created an acute local problem (TIME, May 6 et seq.). Two competing fruit cooperatives appealed for the Board's help. The Board sent them away with a promise of help after they had merged their efforts, eliminated duplication, become representative of all Florida fruit growers in trouble...
...somewhat different, pertaining to advertising, not to editorial content. The editor who patronizes a patent insides service is sent an entire newspaper With the first page blank but with many an advertisement printed on the inside pages. Then the editor runs the paper through his presses and prints local news on the blank spaces between the advertisements. Inasmuch as the advertisements in the patent insides are largely for patent medicines and other low-class advertising, the patent insides paper is somewhat looked down upon. Western Newspaper Union supplies some 10,000 papers, some with boiler plate, some with patent insides...