The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-26

| The necessity of a popular medium for the
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tists, mas always been recognized, and many at
tempts have been made to meet .he want. The
successive failures which so invariably followed
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| journal, did not ptove the Indifference of the
people of Hmerica to the claims of high art. So
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terest characteristic of ordinary periodicals. 1t
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