“Aberdeen Citizenry can be hard on the town—but the grass has always been greener.
It seems worth considering whether we are too hard on ourselves. Can we make
our commerce healthy by just finding a new attitude? Shop & buy local.
Merchants—give the folks some fun reasons to stay local.
“WELL WORTH THINKING OVER
“Recently we had occasion to go into a store to buy a ‘Think of Me’ perfecto.
“Quite a number of men were talking over our business conditions. After considerable talking a well posted man who has travelled considerably this year and who has just visited all the Pacific Coast cities said, ‘Gentlemen I want to say this, that taking all things into consideration, Aberdeen is the best city on the Coast today; her business is better and her prospects brighter than any other town I have visited; it makes me tired,’ he said, ‘to hear our people go belly-aching around and saying business is dead, when the fact is, it is they who are dead;
there is a lot of business here if they will go after it, but to allow the Mail Order Houses in Tacoma, Seattle, and Portland to flood our city with advertising and to do nothing particular to head them off, and then go around saying there is no business is poppycock and child’s prattle.’ He finally wound up…
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