The Topeka state journal., 1899-06-21
OVER $5,5OO,OO
What Topeka Manufacture ed
During One Year.
Some Things For Our PeO-
pie to Think About.
" TOPEKA FOREVER. I"
That Is the Battle Cry Of the
Commercial Club.
"HOme Industry Circular
Gives Facts and Figures.

The ''home industry circular which
the Commercial club voted at it's last
meeting to distribute over the city, is
now in the hands of the printer, and
will be ready for distribution in a day
or two. 1t will be a four-page folder,
and on the title page will be Topeka
ForeVeri Patronize Home INDUSTRIES
1t was the design of Secretary Ander-
son to make it different from the usual
advertising circular, SO that people
would not cast it to the winds as they
do the dodger which is put into their
hands or left at their doors on every oc-
casiOn possible, but to get it up in at
tractiVe form so that people would read
it and be interested. 1t is subject in
which every citizen of Topeka ought to
be interested. Ten thousand copies will
be printed for immediate distribution
throughout the city. They are of a size
that will fold conveniently to go into a
common envelope.
The circular itself has been rewritten
from the original draft that was passed
on by the club some time ago. 1t has
been made shorter and more direct. 1t
says:
ITO the Consumers and Retail Merch-
ants of Topeka:
1.-The Commercial club has taken up
the subject OF home industries, ana de-
sires to call your attention to some of
the benefits to be derived from patron
izing goods made in Topeka
The goods manufactured in Topeka
during 1898 amounted in value to So, 579,-
06S.60; and gave employment to 1927
people, who received wages amounting
to $S41, ,379.13.
Few of our people appreciate the
value of our manufactures and their
Importance to the city. If we will pat
ronize home industries we can practi
calIy double our product in single
ITO illustrate:
''If you will purchase all the flour,
meal, etc, you use or sell, from the
home mills, twenty additional men will
be given work. Eat Topeka biscuit!
IF you will buy all the cigars you
smoke or sell from home manufactur-
ers, sixty men will be given work in To-
peka. Smoke Topeka cigars
'If you will buy all the pickles, re-
fishes and similar goods that you use
or sell, bearing the Topeka brand, TWEEN
ty more men will be given employment.
Eat Topeka picklesi
"If all the men in the city will wear
'Sunf1ower Pants if all the ladies will
wear Topeka skirts, and the people gen.
orally will use the woOlen goods made
in Topeka, 100 employees will be added
to the us now at work in the wOOlen
mills. Sleep under Topeka blankets!
AN increase in the number of en-
city means a corresponding increase in
business generally.
Articles made right here in Topeka
are just as good as those made any
WHERE 6ISS lIiS sum- dliO no eIA gu
ment should be necessary to convince
the people of Topeka of the Importance
of patronizing home industries.
president Lincoln once said, IF you
purchase a coat in Europe for so, you
have the coat and Europe has the SO.
If you purchase the coat at home you
have both the coat and the $10.' That's
the whole business in a nut shell. Pur-
chase home made goods and patrOniZe
our own merchants and dealers, and in
a few years Topeka will have money to
loan.
Manufacturers are requested to
adopt a label for their goods similar to
that on this sheet, and to place it
every article made in Topeka
Then follows list of all kinds of ar
ticles manufactured in Topeka, and the
sample label which was published in
the State Journal some time ago.