Connecticut western news., 1878-02-21
THE SEMI,WEEKLY TRIBUNE

Combines many of the merits of both the Daily and Weekly issues. and is, in some paper sent out from The Tribune Office It contains all the literary, agricultural. and domestic miscellany. and all the spe, cial articles prepared for the Weekly. It has besides nearly all the news of the Dal1 ly. and most of its editorial articles not been enlarged, and changed to the new sixteeni page form described below-a change winch has long been asked by many of its nest 5ntel,gsnt Tp PntE9ns.
 This has been for third of 8 century the favorite paper for our substantial country population. A competent critlc has sad of It :: "The Weekly Tribune has done more for the settlement aud prosper1' ty ot the Great Vest and has made more good farmers aud good citizens than any other single influence that ever existed in this country" During the ensuing year it means not only to preserve all its old mer It's, but to take long stride ahead. By the introduction of $3O,OOO worth of new machinery. and by an enhancement of it's size lmaKing it the largest single sheet Is sued by any new sDaper ln the cOuntry), 1t ls enabled to elve suUscrl bers what they have so long asked-their favorlte paper ID 8 shape easier 10 read and convenient for binding, Each issue consists of sixteen pages. of the form ana general appea ance of Harper's Weekly, but With pages coz. Siderablq larger. and with unusually large and clear type. All the old and standard features are carefully preserved, while the new form aud additional slZe enable us to offer the following among many
 NOVEL AND SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS
 1. A graphic series Of articles on Domes' tic Life and Habits Abroad, by Bayard Taylor,
 H. A few papers on Current Toplcs. from the Cnrisr1an Ministers Polnt of View, by the Rev John Hall D. D.
 III. Occasional contributions on Politi. cal ProDleuls and Promises, by Gall Ham1l- ton.
 ". A Northern Farmer on Southern Az riculiure. by Solon kobiusop. V. Life and Sights in New York. by Vet erans of the City Staff,
 These articles will not be mere repro ductlons from the daily paper. They will be prepared expressly for The Weekly Fri, bune. and will first see the light m it's col umns.
 FOR FARMERS. The Agricultural Department of the Weekly Tribune has always been recogni: zed as beyond comparl on with that of any | riva'. More good work and 1sore money are now spent upon It than ever before, Among regular contributors to it are Pro- | lessor James Law, the couEIy's foremost | veterinary authority; Professor l. B. Ar, mold. uneQualIed as an instructor In the fine art oi dairyine; Professor G. c. CaId well. of National reputation as an agIlcul tural chemist; Professor c. V. Riley, the well known entolnolo2ist; Mr. Jusiab Hooper. the horticultural au uthOrity, ;.uC other agricultural specialists of the high est rank.
 NO RIVALS TO COMPARE IT WIIH.
 The Weekly Tribune IS now utterly un like any other weekly newspaper issued from the office of daily Tn New York, o ID the country larger, In different anl better form. in better type, and filled witt matter prepared expressly for It's readers not with the stale news dumped in iron the Dallv- It can only be compared wltl the three and four dollar weeklies, llk Harper's and the great religious and liter ary journals, wb1le it's pages are large than In any of these. Its price, however remalrs fixed at such low rates as to def competition, and the extraordinary premi ums surpass anything even Ia it's owl history.
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