Business: Billless Bloomfield

In the northeast corner cf Nebraska, on the end of a branch-line railroad, is the town of Bloomfield. For 28 months the citizens of Bloomfield have been doing a strange thing. Last week someone took the trouble to tell the New York Times about this thing in Bloomfield and the town became suddenly and widely known outside of Nebraska.

A. F. Heiress, Bloomfield drygoods merchant, is generally given credit for thinking up the plan. He organized and became president of the Bloomfield Retail Merchants Association. During his regime the Bloomfield Monitor of Feb. 23,...

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