Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-15
THE
THE
PRESS,
BURLINGTON, VT.

The FREE PRESS believes in progress
and makes its practice accord with its
belief. Its efforts toward perfection have
been constant and its growth in size and
value, circulation and public appreciation
in the past few years have no precedent in
| Vermont Journalism. 1t stands by acknoW-
ledgment of its contemporaries in three
states clearly in the forefront of Vermont
newspapers. Its advance movement will
not be relaxed and 1t will continue to keep
itself in position to entitle it to the patron
age of all intelligent people
The FREE PRESS believes in home in
stitutions. 1t believes that the people of
Vermont can find much in their own
state to be proud of. 1t believes that the
sooner they learn to thoroughly support
their worthy home institutions, preach
and practice the policy of enterprise in
Vermont, put their capital in manufact-
ures at home, the sooner they will reach
Independence and happiness. The FREE
PRESS therefore advocates the policy of
thorough and unwavering support of home
institutions, and it believes that only in so
far as that is done will community or
state make thorough progress. 1t believes
there is ample room for the exercise of
brains, energy and enterprise in Vermont
and acts fully up to its belief.
Believing this the FREE PRESS is first
of all a home paper. Its own city, county,
and state, are first in its thoughts, and
newS-while the news of the entire world
is given in rs ample detail as necessary.
All matters that seem to concern Its read
ers, national, state or city, social moral or
intellectual, are discussed day by day, not
for sensational effect but to intelllgently
elucidate the subject. The FREE PRESS
does not believe in sensationalism in any
degree, either in news or politics. 1t is
steadfastly republican in politics and does
not believe it is necessary to change opin-
ion with every issue to be live news
paper.
The FREE PRESS has begun new, high
ly attractive and unusual feature in
country journalism. 1t has, at considera-
BILE expense, engaged a series of original
stories of the war, to be printed in its
columns solely in Vermont. These will
prove highly attractive to all veterans and
sons of veterans as well as other readers.
The FREE PRESS has also recently begun
Il department of original stories by writers
OF we'll established fame, such as Sarah d.
Hobart Joel Chandler Harris, Julian
Hawthorne, Charles Egbert Craddock,
Frances Iodgson Burnett, Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps, Frank r. Stockton, Rev.
f. +. Hale, j. L. Trowbridge, a. A. Hays,
Philip Bourke Marston, Sidney Luska,
and others, which have already proved
very attractive. These and other special
departments of value will make the Free
Press the coming year more desirable than
ever before.
The FREE PRESS has added to its other
attractions illustrations of prominent
men, new machinery, fashions, buildings,
scientific articles, and agricultural tools.
1t has valuable departments devoted to
The Home The Farm, and Science and
Progress. In each of these will be found
much that will entertain and inform. a
| Boston editor who knows the comparative
value of newspapers said of the FREE
PRESS that it is the leading newspaper in
Vermont - and we have no doubt that all
who become acquainted with the facts
will agree with the Boston editor.
The recent enlargement of the Daily
places it ahead of all competition and gives
its readers an amount of desirable and
valuable reading such as they cannot get
in any Vermont newspaper and but few
outside of Vermont.