Eureka Reporter | 1907-07-26 | Page 7 | War on Mail Order Houses

WAR ON MAIL ORDER HOUSES small dealers are fighting as they say for their lives chicago ti ar has been declared on the great catalogue houses of chi cago and other cities by the re tail tall merchants of the west in one ot of the most striking economic movements this country ever has known the small dealers are fighting as they say for their lives the mammoth institutions employ ing thousands of workers doing their business entirely through the vac me ollum of their bulky catalogues spend ing no money in the communities whence they derive annually of dollars of patronage are creasing numbers ot of home merchants to the wall and so their opponents cla in are making commercial grave bards ards of once prosperous towns in this life and death struggle jobbers and manufacturers also are in evolved with the retail merchants