New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-04-15
A PIONEER IN FACT AS WE'LL AS
In NAME.

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The March number of The North
avest magazine gives some interesting
facts in connection with the growth
and progress of the PIONEER PRESS.
1t says:
s.The Pioneer Press establishment is
more than a private enterprise-it is an
institution which has always been close
ly identified with every phase of the
rapidly developing civilization of which
it was in fact as well as in name, the
pioneer. :
''THE PIONEER PRESS AS "A NEWSPAPER
stands forth as striking illustration of
the growth and prosperity, not alone Of
the cities OF St. Paul and Minneapolis,
but of the empire of states and terrific
ries of which these cities are the centre
and type. With the first dawn of po-
litical life in the Northwest in 1849, the
St. Paul Weekly Pioneer made its APP
pearance, its founder being the famous
James M. Goodhue and from that
germ has grown and blossomed the
Pioneer Press Of to-day. Other journals
have come and gone in endless process
sion, and their very names are almost
forgotten, but the Pioneer Press has
continued its resistless march.
.'The Pioneer Press traces its lineage
from the Pioneer, established April %,
1849, and from the St. Paul Press,
founded on the first of January, 1861.
The Pioneer displayed a snap and vigor
that soon enabled it to outshine and alb
sorb all its Democratic rivals, and it
grew into strong and self-sustaining
journal The St. Paul Press, in turn,
absorbed the Republican papers that
preceded it, and this paper, under the
management of the present proprie-
tors of the Pioneer Press, soon COM
menced that career Of marvellous pros
perity which is scarcely paralleled in
the history of journalism. For about
twenty-three years it has never ceased
to grow in stature and strength, not
single year has passed that has not
shown circulation and volume of
business greater than that of the year
preceding. There has been no pause in
its development, and at no time has it
ever taken step backward.
I'm 1875 the Pioneer was taken into
the embrace of the Press, the CONSOLE
dated paper being the Pioneer Press,
and from that time to the present, us
its readers will cheerfully testify, the
only changes in its character and per-
sonnet have been in the direction of i'm
provemenc and enlargement as rapidly
as means and opportunities presented
themselves for meeting and increasing
wants Of its widening circle of patrons.
= % The Pioneer Press is regu-
larry sold by train agents upon the
more than 10000 miles of the eighteen
lines of railroad which are directly
tributary to the locality Of its publica-
ton. 4
Four hundred and fifty local news
agents sell the Pioneer Press at cities
and villages on all these lines, and it
also has large subscription list sup
piled by mail direct. 1t is one of not
more than four newspapers in the
United States, publishing every day, in
its own columns, sworn statements of
it's circulation.
''The paper is printed from stereo-
type plates, upon Hoe perfecting press,
which is marvel of mechanical in
genuity, with capacity of 10000 sheets
per hour, every sheet being cut from a
: ! continuous roll of paper, and coming
from the press printed and folded,
ready for delivery