Connecticut western news., 1878-02-28
THE SEMI. I.WEEKLY TRIBUNE

Combines many of the merits of both the Daily aud Weekly lssues and IS. in some IeSpec's. the best, as well as tle cheapest paper sent out from The Tribune Office. It cOnta nS all the literary, agricultural. and domestic miscellany. and all the spe. has besides nearly all the news of the Dar iy. and most of it's editorial articles not strictly local in their application. It has been enlarged, and c, ,anged to the new slxteeL page form described below-a change winch has long been asked by many Of it's most intelligent patrons.
 THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
 This has been for a third of century the favorite paper for our substantial country population. A competent critic has said of it |: ''The Weekly Tribune has done more for the settlement andsprOsperl' tv ot the Great West, and has made more good farmers and good citizens than any her single influence that ever existed in thls country" During the ensuing year it means not o4lv to preserve all It's old mer' It's, but tO take long stride ahead. By the intrOductlOn of $SO,0O0 worth of new machinery. and by an enforcement of it's size lmaKing it the largest single sheet 1s' sued by any newspaper m the country), 1t is enabled to RIve suDscrl bers what they have so long asked-their favOrlGe paper Ill q shape easier 10 read and convenient for binding. Each issue consists of sixteen pages. of tue form ana general appear ance lNP OG.s SidArablY larger, and with unusually large aud clear type. All the old and standard features are carefully preserved, while the new form and additional slZe enable us to offer rue following among mauy
 NOVEL AND SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS l. A graphic serles Ot articles on Domes. tic Life and Habits Abroad, by Bayard Taylor.
 II. A few pa DOTS on Current Topics. from the Christian Ministers Point of View. by the Rev John Hall, D. D.
 III. Occasional contributions on Politi' cal Problens and Promises, by GaIl Hamll- ton.
 ". A Northern Farmer on Southern Az riculture. by Solon hoblnson. V. Life and Sights m New York, by Vet erans of the City Staff,
 These articles will not be mere repro ductions from the daily paper. Thay will be prepared expressly for The Weekly Fri. bune, and will first see the light III it's col umnS.
 FOR FARMERS. The Agricultural Department of the Weekly Tribune has always been recogni- l zed ns beyond cOmparI on with that of any rival. More good work and I.ore money | are now spent upon It than ever before. | Among regular contributors to 1t are Pro- | lessor James Law. the couEtry's foremost veterinary authority; Professor l. B. Ar mold. unequalled as an instructor Tn the | fine art Oi dairyiug; Professor G. c. Cald | well, of National reputation as an agIIcul tnral chelnlst: Professor c. V. Riley, the | well known ent0mOloaist Mr. JusIah | Hooper, the horticultural authority, nd other agrlcultural specialists of the high | est rank.
 NO RIVALS TO COMPARE IT WIlH. l The Weekly Tribune IS now utterly un like any other weekly newsuaper issued from the office of daily Ill New York. oI | in tue country; larger, Tn different and better form. in better type, and filled witt | matter prepared expressly for It's readers not with the stale news dumped in frOu the Daily, It can only be compared witt the three ard four dollar weeklips, llkC Harp Is aud the great religious and liter ary journals, while it's pages are larger than ID any of these. Its price, however remal 2 fixed at such low rates as to defA ums surpass anything even III It's owl history,
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