Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-02-09
Advertising.

There is only one way by which Il
man can make his fortune in the West,
and that is by advertising. In the East,
where people are so crowded that every
body knows his neighbours business, ii
is almost as essential as life; but in the
vast West, where we could bury the
East Hike a corps, in a single night, and
no one be the wiser, it is life ITSELF
The population, save that which is
purely civic, is SO scattered that it often
takes hundred miles to grow a log
cabin and a farm. But these are the
outposts of our civilization, which are
continually extending and expanding,
and will one day fill up the prairies,
and dot them all over with pretty resi-
dences, and happy homes, and cultivat-
ed fields, whose sum total will astonish
| the World.
| Now, a man s common sense will soon
| tell him, il he puts it to the question,
| that this wide stretched and often inn
mensely sundered population can only
be reached by advertising. There is
not house in the West where a news
paper Of some sort is not sure to be
found. We are an omnivorous people, so
far as reading is concerned, and nothing
comes amiss to our Unsuitable NAV. a
Western man could no more live with
out his newspaper than without his
wife, his tobacco, his bacon, or any
other indispensable requisite. And
what is more--out yonder i'm the coun-
try, over the great blazing fire on il win
ter's evening, or under the shade of
some glorious old oak in the summer
time, men are sure to read every line in
every paper which they can lay their
hands on.--ChicagO Republican,. ISL.
THE State Register publishes a letter
Just brought to light, written by George
w. Jones, i'm March, 1868, which per-
formed the office of Introducing Stillson
Hutchins, the editor of the Dubuque
Herald, to the rebel Major McFrom, OF
Baltimore, Col. Raisin of Baltimore,
and Bayard and Salisbury, Delaware
Senators. Jones in the letter, com
mends his brave and noble young
f,iend Stillson to their care and cOnsid-
Grafton, because of Stillson's active and
open hostility to the civil war against
the noble people of the South. 1t reads |
i'm the style of Jones' letter to his dear
friend jeff. Davis, which was picked up
in the State Department. Petitions to
the President will be forwarded for
Jones pardon, .....a u. |
THE Detroit Free Press says the sports |
about town and their confreres are great !
ly excited over canine dispute for
$500 side, which is soon to be settled |
in that city, or it's immediate neighbor- !
hood. The dogs have been in training |
for the combat about three weeks. They |
are exercised ut stated intervals, their |
food weighed and regularly served to |
them, and as much care and attention |
bestowed upon them as was ever shown !
to human apugilists. Visitors are ex
pected from st. Louis, Chicago, New
York. Albany, and other places, and it
is estimated that over five thousand /
dollars will change owners OH the result /
OF the dispute
THE Portage, Wis. Register announ-
nes the death Of Joseph Circle, the aged
veteran of al years, which occurred on
the 9th of January, after a
brief illness, ut the residence of his
Mrs. Brisbois, i'm Gale
Iionia, about four miles from Portage
During the past year Mr.. Circle obtained
4 world wide notoriety through the
on account of his extreme
He was born near the city
Of Detroit, in the year 1725, Us shown
bv the records of the Catholic church
Of that city, and was probably the oldest
man in the world. ".