The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-03-22
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THE TINES.

ali done we invite our friends 10 coine @nu
see us. We have firmly rooted conviction
tbs, TIE TIMES is the model printing office
of the West, and walk through the estab-
lisbment is all that is necessary to convince
the visitor that we are right in this. From
time immemorial the name printing
office" has been associated with dinginess
and dirt-a place where drunken "tramps'
make their rendezvous, where old pspers,
cigar stump. and empty bottles most
abound, where the floors are covered
with waste paper, machine grease
and tobacco Juice, and the only wall orna-
m.n,s are horse-cuis and the imprints OF
the DEVILS inky paws. Ard the picture
Thus drawn is not exaggerated-you can
see the original of it in almost every town
in the country. But there is no reason
why printing Office should be any more
filthy than dwelling house, and in either
case the FAULT is wholly with the house
keeper." At The TINES Office We pride
ourselves upon being neat housekeepers
and we do not permit any dry
goods store in the country 70 go
ahead OF US in neatDess, clean
illness and order; when We invite our
friends to come in and see Us we don't feel
Obliged to warn them TO "put on their old
clothes" and no one of the scores Of ladies
and gentlemen who call every day, On bus
iness, or to See 'em print" ever feel that
they are in danger of soilins their garments,
by coming in contact with filthy floor.
Tne establishment is csrpeted throughout,
no. only in the editorial quarters, but in the
counting room, Railways, and composing
room; the clean kalsomIned walls
are ornamented, no. with cobwebs, old
haudbiIls and finger marks, but with
picture h.ngings that would do no
discredit to parlor the woodxork is white
and the stoves are black the whole place
is always as carefully swept and busted as
any house in town; the newspapers are
kept IN order, and in their plsces-not on
the floor or in piles in the corners-the
desks and the lamps are always clean, and
the whole place wears an air of cheerful.
ness and confort, day and night. The mob
of drunken rowdies which used to be an
insparable sdjunction to every printing
Office in Leavenworih, is unknown about
TIE TINES estsblishment-ou compositors
are all ladies and gentlemen, and our com.
posing room is conducted as orderly as a
bank.
And the internal working of the estab.
lishmest corresponds with its external ap,
pearance. The business of the office 10 con-
Quoted upon business principles, and We
have demonstrated the fact that this was
all that was necessary to make The Tine
one OF the most successful and profitable
business enterprises in the city. We have
bat one scale of prices; We have put
everything down to the lowe,t paying rates,
and treat all customers alike; we have no
dead head" list, and no half-price list,
but the same "half-bushel" measures
every mans "corn," and if you
don't think the advertisement will be worth
the price, you don't have to put it in. We
carry no load of dead accounts; transient
customers pay cash in advance at the coun-
ter; with our regular customers we settle
monthly or quarterly, and we are willing
10 wager the DAILY TINES for ten years
that there isn't business house in kansas
that can show a cleaner ret of books-and
those who know how the newspaper bust
ness is usually conducted, will know
what this means. We Use legitimate
business enterprise in securing business
but We don't beg or bore anybody for his
patronage, nor promise to do his work
for nothing; our prices are as low as we
can afford 10 take, and if yos can't afford to
pay them, We don't ''trade" Everything
runs like "clock-work," and our books will
show, TO dollar, the condition Of the Office
at the close of any days business. Our
subscription prices are lower than those
charged by any other paper in the country
the regular rates, by mail, being six dol
lars year for the daily, and one dollar
for the veekly-just half as much as west
ern papers usually charge. We reduced
our prices to these figures about two years
ago, and as q result our circulation has al
mos doubled. The TINES now goes
TO subscribers at almost every post-ofice
in the state of Kansas, and has . larger
paying subscription list than any other
paper west Of ST. Louis. We intend, i. the
future as in the past, to conduct our bust
ness on business principles, and give our
patrons the worth of their money. We
employ none but competent assistants in
every department, and extend the circula-
ton Of our paper by making it worthy Of
the patronage Of the people, thus maintain
ins for it the reputation it already Justly
beans, Of the leading paper in Kansas.
A RECOGNITION OF BOTH ELE-
AENTS.
There have been = great many things Of
late in connection with the present admin
istration that havel been bothering the