{"id":204,"date":"2010-08-05T08:24:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T13:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=204"},"modified":"2010-08-05T08:24:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T13:24:37","slug":"a-glimpse-of-capitalist-foul-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"A Glimpse of Capitalist Foul Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Natural to any mining boom town was the belief that one could setup shop and quickly begin to reap in the riches.\u00a0 As Joplin grew in size, more companies and businesses sprung up to line Main Street and other current downtown avenues.\u00a0 One of those businesses was the Joseph S. Baum Mercantile Company.\u00a0 Another was the Levin clothing store.\u00a0 By chance the two found themselves neighbors to the chagrin of Joseph Baum.\u00a0 By appearances, it seems that Baum was successful and his neighbor decided to help himself to that success by holding his store out as part of his neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>From that point on, Baum Mercantile Company struggled through\u00a0 a 2 year odyssey to force their neighbor to quit their deceptive practices.\u00a0 The practices went so far as one employee of Levin&#8217;s pretending to be Joseph Baum, himself.\u00a0 In the end, it took court action to silence Levin&#8217;s employees and their deception.\u00a0 None the less, as a glance at the ad will attest, Baum felt it necessary to place an ad in the local paper to further clear up the issue.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4077\/4861428541_f600da0da7_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ad for Joseph S. Baum Merchantile Company\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4077\/4861428541_f600da0da7.jpg\" alt=\"Ad for Joseph S. Baum Merchantile Company\" width=\"500\" height=\"447\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click on the image to view a larger version.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natural to any mining boom town was the belief that one could setup shop and quickly begin to reap in the riches.\u00a0 As Joplin grew in size, more companies and businesses sprung up to line Main Street and other current downtown avenues.\u00a0 One of those businesses was the Joseph S. Baum Mercantile Company.\u00a0 Another was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35],"tags":[861,328,448,31,858,859,860,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}