Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-06-25
To Our Patrons.

People call at this Office very frequently to
procure copies of our exchanges from along
the line of the Northern Pacific, and from
other parts Of the State, in order to get some
information of the section of country in which
they are printed. We have never known a
stranger who examined the newspapers from
a new country to fail to form his impression
Of the country from such newspapers. News
papers are eagerly sought for by nearly all
new corners, and are recognized as the bust
ness index of their localities. Therefore a
good, live newspaper contributes largely to
the prosperity of the surrounding country.
Our especial object in this article is to invite
attention to the just claims of The Little Falls
Daily Transcript, which will be started in
few weeks and will be permanently maintained
1t will be a small sheet, only four
column folio, but it will be larger and better
paper than towns of two or three thousand
inhabitants are supposed to be able to sup
port. The curious fact of daily paper
published in Northern Minnesota will alone
attract the attention of thousands of people,
some of whom will be Influenced to locate
here. One column of the paper will contain
standing record of the advantages found in
this part of the State, and these papers will be
distributed daily on the railroads north of
St. Paul. Perhaps one hundred copies will be
thus distributed every day, or more than
thirty thousand copies in year. The papers
will be sold at the rate of twenty for ten cents
their friends. The natural outcome of this
must be obvious to all. The hotel keepers of
Little Falls would clear more than enough
more to pay for all the papers distributed on
the trains and elsewhere outside the county.
The number of immigrants coming into the
county would be largely increased, the value
of real estate would increase more rapidly,
and all branches of business would be advanced.
Every person owning real estate or doing
business in this county should take an interest
in maintaining The Daily Transcript. The
publisher cannot reasonably expect to make
much, if anything, out of the daily edition;
but he feels disposed to reciprocate for the
generous support that he has received from
this town and county by giving the COM
mum ty all the advantages of daily paper.
Heretofore the business men in nearly every
instance have shown q disposition to bear
equitaoly, each in his proper share, the ex-
pense of supporting good local paper; and
we have seen but very little Of the miserably
small souled disposition to enjoy the adj
vantages of good local paper without bear
ing proper share Of the expense of its sup
port. Our advertising columns prove this.
We hope that real estate owners living in the
East and elsewhere, many of whom are now
subscribers for the Weekly Transcript, will at
once subscribe for the Daily, SO that wo can
commence its publication with as large list
as possible. We will send the Daily four
months, postage prepaid, for one dollar; or,
if desired, we will transfer the amount of
surplus on unexpired subscriptions to the
Weekly from the Weekly to the Daily list, and
stop the Weekly. Farmers and others in the
county, outside of the village of Little Falls,
who wish to subscribe for the Daily, are request
ed to send in their names at once, and they can
settle their subscription any time during the
fall.