Over the last few months, I have gone to FATZ® restaurant in Lincolnton for business reasons. In the last few weeks, one of the framed newspaper displays has caught my eye. This was a front page from the local Lincolnton newspaper dated August 7, 1933. The larger that life photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt is the main feature as you can see..
I passed the picture several times before stopping to read it. This was a proclamation of local business owners pledging their support of the “Recovery Program” of FDR. There were businesses listed, new hours and two other things of interest besides the whole concept of FDR being the main focus; one – the top right corner mentions the merchants signing a “Blanket Code” for their particular businesses…? Second, the wording at the bottom was very odd… “Let’s have no more talk of..”