Lockport Historic District, Funeral Parlor, Lockport, Will County, IL
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Image 11 of The Bozeman courier (Bozeman, Mont.), August 13, 1926
The Modest Beginning of the Press in Montana Territorial Press Association Organized in 1885 3E The Newspaper uAfi r By DAN R CONWAY T HE location of the town was in the upper valley of the Madison river at the head of Alder Gulch elevated on a sloping hillside and with a background that was rocky and sparsely wooded It had one lone street which was lined on either side by falsefronted and for the most part crudely constructed business houses It had many houses that were builded after as many dif ferent fashions the substantial of It ft more these being of logs or adobe In its day with a popu lation of a few thousand souls it was perhaps as lively and wicked a place as this coun try ever knew was the metropolis of Montana Territorythe seething center of the New EldoradoVirgin ia City If we compare this simple picture of the frontier with the present Mon tana its railroads its agriculture its industry and commerce its educa tional and recreational facilities its many cities of business palaces and beautiful homes we may realize what energy and enterprise have ac complished in the last sixty years It
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Image 8 of Water Valley progress (Water Valley, Miss.), March 21, 1903
Tf Me is an Jd story about the fSrir wrrA tois Wife who were not tali dird with their home and de eld 4 to pat their farm in the hands oan agent for sale Soon the realtor they read of a beauti tel place which they decided would exactly suit them They ailed on the agent only to find It was their own farm they had so jaech admired and as the agent had atated the facts they with drew it from the market They hai overlooked the good things round them antil a stranger had pointed them oat This is a very common experience We usually think the other fellow has the eas ier time of a better business be cause we dont know all about Ills troubles or disadvantages and because we dont fully appre ciate our good things Ex Your great man shines before the populace in vain without the newspaper He spreadeagles the Constitution in vain without the newspaper His clarion voice wakes up the universe in vain without the newspaper His most astounding financial enterprises serve him in vainwithout the newspaper His scientific re searches and achievehments are in vainwithout the newspaper His wireless
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