The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1874-11-05
A Representative and Champion Of American
Art Taste
Prospectus for 1S75--Sth Year
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The necessity OF popular nahum FOR the represen
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made Ia meet,thr wait. The succ ssive failures which
invariably followed each attempt in this country to
establish Journal did not prove the indi
Il the people Of America to he claims of high ar, So
soon proper appreciation of the want and an
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1i ETIs' artistic anu commercial Hi"hPn-1NS A.
THD ALDIyE, while issued with all the regularity
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artist,c SKILL in black aud white Aithensh each sue
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scope OF the confines the artist closely To
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