Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-10
THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE.
TIE CHRONIcLE rELARGED.

THE CHRONICLE ENHANCED.
We present our r,ader5this morning
the DAILY Chronicle enlarged TO
twenty eight columns. In typograph-
ical appearance, shape and amount of
reading matter we propose to maze it
the most attractive daily published in
East Tennessee. We shall enlarge the
next number OF the WEEKLY CHRON.
IoLE to forty.eight columns, making it
by far the largest paper ever printed in
East Tennessee. To enable us to make
these improvements we have purchas-
ed a Cottrell & Babcock steam power
press, the largest and most complete
ever brought to this section.
These changes ia the size OF our pa
pers have been made at a heavy ex-
pense, and are an evidence that the
CHRoNICLE is "a fiXture-a paper to
keep pace with the growth and pro-
gress of East Tennessee, aud its com
mercial center. 1t will continue to be
the chief aim of the CHRONICLE to
promote by every means in its power
the material interests of this section.
While we hold to our political cJnvic-
tions honestly and fearlessly and shall
always advocate them earnestly, we
nevertheless consider that our first and
highest duty is to aid in building up on
solid foundation the great CONNER
cial, industrial, and agricultural inter-
ests of East Tennessee. If we can
help to cause two blades of grass TO
grow where one has grown heretofore I;
if we can attract to our section CAPT
tai and labor, to open new mines and
build new workshops, to give perma-
ncnt and profitable labor TO our work
ingmen if we can induce good indus
trious farmers to buy our waste or half
cultivated farms, and help produce two
bushels of wheat, or of corn, or raise
two head of cattle or horses or mules
where one was produced, or one was
raised before, we will be contributing
Just that much to the materia
wealth Of the country. To that work
we propose 10 appropriate the columns
OF the CHRONICLE in the future even
more than we have done in the past.
We are sincerely thankful for the evil
dences that our labors in this direction
have been appreciated. We have
abundant warrant in the letters we
have received from political opponents
as well as friends, and from the general
drift of public sentiment made mani
fest to us in more numerous subscrip-
ton list and more liberal advertising
patronage than other papers of this
section enjoy, to claim for the CHRON-
ICLE general recognition as being the
pioneer among the newspapers of Ten
nessee in making it a special medium
for disseminating throughout the cOun-
try information concerning Knoxville
and East Tennessee that has been the
means of bringing to our section large
numbers of useful citizens and a large
amount of additional capital. 1t has
been largely through our efforts that
East Tennessee is to-day the best adj
vertised and most favOrably known
region of the South. We allude to this
not to boast of it, but rather to say that
to this feature of the CHRONICLE, rs
much as TO any other, is due its pros
perity and the generous support it has
received from citizens without respect
to party affiliations. 1t is encouraging
to journalism in Tennessee that such
labOrs are held in higher esteem than
blind devotion TO political parties, or
than that other species of journalism
that boasts Of the mercenary character
of its convictions-that opens its col
umns for pay to any body and any
class of patrons, no matter how de-
mOraliZlng or immoral.