Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1866-02-22
FORTUNES :.
M USI C A L II o S T.
The only successfully established publication
Of the kind in tho United States.
"I greet you as host
Unfold the pages of my heart
And read therein your welcome"
..5.r. BEN Johnson.

A Musical Periodical, designed to circulate
among tho homes Of the people, is no new idea,s
for the want of it has been long felt that there
are but very few persons musically inclined, to
whom the thought has not naturally suggested
itself In Europe, dozen works of this class
exist, which circulate hundreds Of thousands Of
copies. They arc looked for with the same OK.
pectancy as the weekly papers, or the monthly
magazines. Their popularity arises, not 50 much
from the fact that they are cheap, as from tho
fact that they are collection afording variety
in style, vocal and. instrumental, calculated to
suit every taste. Their cheapness is, of course,
recommendation, for in all Of them, us in FOR
TUNES MUSICAL HOST, tho music given for
fifty cents, would in separate pieces at the mu-
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taking into consideration the admirable manner
Of their production, that no one, In these times
can afford to despise.
This monthly publication, now in the oom.
mencement Of it's third year, has met with u SUE
cess altogether unprecedented in the history Of
Musical experiments, either in America, in
Europe. ~
Cheap musical publications have hitherto fail.
Cd, because they were just as cheap in their style
of production, as they were in their scale Of
| charges.
Tee Publisher of the:MUsICAL HOST is de-
tcrmined to make this work model of beauty
in style, and artistic in every respect first in tho
superior excellence Of its Music, comprising Orig
inal Compositions by popular writers Of Europe
and America together with choice selections Of
Italian Alias, German, English, and Americtn
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taste, and its contents arc both popular and clas-
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this principle, the work has met with the most
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The MUSICAL HOST has been established in
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failed to secure a footing. We arc, therefore,
led to infer that We have adopted the right course
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FORTUNES
MUSICAL HOST
Will hereafter contain, each month, besides tho
usual sixteen pages Of new and carefully selected
| music, eight or more pages OF literary matter of
varied character, and full Of interest to lniscel-
Ianeous as we'll as to musical, readers. In
this department we shall comprise tories, poems,
sketches, Biographies Of eminent persons, music
nj Items and criticism, book notices, and Literary
miscellany; and it will be our aim 10 make the
literary department Of the NJ USICAL HOST cuIl.
pletc, lively and popular.
We have already commenced the publication Of
THE LADIES MILE,
= new novel Of much interest, by Miss NJ. e.
Braddon. This work will be continued from
| month to month, until completed.
Many valuable subscribers have. in time past,
interested themselves IN circulating and promo
| ling the success Of the Musical Host. We Cci
| that such friends ought not to 60 unrewardcd by
| at least some token of our grateful appreciation
of their services. For this reason We have nlaio
arrangements, at great cost, to present to every
| person sending us eighteen dollars, annual sub
scription, for club of four subscribers for 1866
L copy of that great national work of Art,
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