The Topeka state journal., 1899-06-15
ALL FOR HOME.
Commercial Club Pushing "Made In
Topeka" Movement.

The Commercial club at its meeting
last evening endorsed the Made in
Topeka circular which has been pre-
pared by the committee on manufac-
lures, and ordered that 10000 copies of
the circular be printed for distribution
among the citizens of Topeka. 1t shows
what can be accomplished if the people
of Topeka will support the manufactur-
ing institutions that are established
here, and will go a long ways towards
solving the trust problem locally. The
circular is as follows:
To the Retail Merchants and Consumers
of Topeka:
The Commercial club has taken the
subject of home industry in hand and
wishes to call your attention to some of
the benefits to accrue from patronizlng
goods Made in Topeka
If you will buy all the flour you use
or sell from the home mills, ten men will
be given work.
If you will buy all the cigars you
smoke or sell from home manufacturers,
40 more men will be given work in To-
peka.
If you will buy all the pickles. baking
powder. catsup and similar goods that
you use or sell from the Topeka manu-
facturer ten more men will be given
work.
If you will buy all the woolens that
you use or sell from the Topeka mill 100
more employees will be added to the rolls
of the institution.
In two months time you Will by this
simple act have added $50 heads of
y
Five to a family would make the well
come addition of 800 to the number now
residing in the city.
This means that the business of the
city will a once be increased nearly two
per cent and that your business will ex-
perience the same increase.
Can you afford to buy goods else
where2
In Kansas City, the cry "patronize
home Industry has been raised and a
perfect furore exists. Forty cigar max
makers have been added to the number
already employed and even Topeka
sent down three. Men are wearing but
tons with the home industry legend on
them. Business houses are proud to ex-
hibiJ the label Made in Kansas City,
L. S. A. and as a result hundreds of
dollars which were sent east are now
staying in Kansas City and every mer-
chant great and small, is reaplng. the
benefit, for no other class of people
spend money as freely as workingmen
when they have it, and you have it en-
| tirely within your power to give it to
them to spend.
To the end that the goods from To
peka manufacturers may be known, the
Commercial club has adopted a label
copy Ofw hich Is printed hereon. 1t is
our sincere hope that manufacturers
and merchants will as far as possible
place it on all goods manufactured in
the city and sold by merchants
Awnings, bee hives, books (alI kinds,)
| boots and shoes. brooms, butter. bar
| Der supplies, brick, baking powder boil
| efS. DnnQS, blankets, boxes (D9Der and
cigar), badges, carpets. carria ges, ci-
| gars, candies, castings, iron Gall kinds),
! cellulose, copper ware, cornices, corn
meal, cider. condiments, (table), dresses,
| doors, door plates, engines, extracts, ex-
| ray machines, flour, frames Cpicture),
| furniture, fur goods, hats. harness, hair
| goods, horse shoes, ice, ice cream. light
| (gas and electric), lime mattresses mir
/ rors, millinery goods, monuments. metal
| signs, machinery (miIl, etc.,) packing
| house products, photographs, plows,
pumps, proprietary medicines, rubber
| stamps. signs, soda water. Spices shirts,
spring beds, sash saddles, tents trusses,
/ tinware, trunks, vinegar wagons. wool
| ems and yeast, are all manufa ctured in
! Topeka and Hthographing is executed
| here.
You can not afford to ignore this ap-
| peal
| Are you with US?
| The label adopted is similar to the
/ one published in the State Journal a
| short time ago when the home indus
| try" agitation first commenced.