The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-03-03
News in Advertisements.

''F1fSt OF All. the News, is Il SoUl llotto
in journalism, because people naturally
want to learn about events, more or less
SENSATIONAL of general interest. But to the
thoughtful there is another mine of lnfor-
nation and also of instruction in daily
paper. 1t is in the advertising columns.
There are concretel and exposed the daily
happenings which the reporter does not
find. Look through the advertisements of the
journals of village, town, city or country,
and you will learn more about the life of the
people whom the paper reaches than can be
aScertaned in any other way
The advertising columns will give you the
news not as the newsgatherers find it, but
as the people themselves unconsciously bus
most truthfully depict it at their own cost
and for their own benefit, without much
thought, if amy. of its public value
Try the experiment of looking for news of
the daily current of life in the advertising
columns of your home newspaper and see If
thereby vou do not gain valuable and inter-
rstng information from day to day. even II
you do not find news of direct personal in
terest to yourself, as You are most likely to
do. New " rk Recorder
The above article. written from the stand
point of daily newspaper i'll a large city,
applies with equal force to the humblest
country weekly: but in regard to the latter
there is more tp be said. \ newspaper like
the Republican Journal, published in a sec
ton which has its representatives i'll every
State and Territory Of the Union, and in
many foreign countrtS-to say nothing of
the sesfarers. who are followed by their
"home paper to every port and clime-fallS
into the hands of many strangers who will
naturally Judge of Belfast by its newspa-
per Ii on scanning thea advertising col
umns they find them filled with what is
known " foreign advertising patent
medicines, etc.,-they must conclude that
whatever its other advantages may be Bel
fast is a poor place for business. We are
afraid that such would have been the
clusion ten fifteen years ago. 1t has been
the ambition of the conductors of the Jour
nal to remedy this--to make the paper in it's
advertising, as we'll as in its reading col
umns, a local newspaper: both testifying
alike to the business activity and industrial
enterprise of the community To this end
Objectionable advertising has been weeded
ont and rejected and every inducement Of
fered to local advertisers to fill the space
thus vacated. The editorial and local col
umns have been freely devoted to the building
up of new industries and the fostering of old
ones. and it cannot be said that any move
ment looking to the moral OF material vel
fare IF this city OF section has been neglect
ed. The reward has come in the many col
umns of local advertising which now APP
pear. Never before in the history Of the
paper was there great a proportion of ln-
cal to foreign advertiSing while the latter is
confined to such standard articles as Hoods
and Ayers preparations, Cuticura, Royal
Baking Powder. Ivory Soap etc. OF course
the advertising varies from week to week
and this ISSUE may contain additional local
announcements. We have thought it worth
while however, to make business directory
of the purely local adv ertising in last weeks
journal, and here it is:
DRY AND FANCY GOODS
Geo: W: Burkett ..,... ODD Fellows block
Is. +. w ellis. ....,.-,........ Main St1eet
CLOTHING AND FURNISHING GOODS.
Mrs. c. w. Haney. ........ Journal Building
Owen Bros. commencement II Main Street
Clark x Sleeper. ..-........ 50 Main Street
Charles O'tonnell. III High Street
GRot FRIES.
\. 4. Howes & Coz. odd Fellows Block
CLOCKS. WATCHES AND JEwELRy
Calvin Hervey. ..........,.,....P Phoenix Row
H. j. Locke. National Bank Building
Thayer * Adams johnson Block. High st
DRUGS AND PATENT MEDICINES
Poor & Son...,...-+ ......-..... High Street
A. i. Howes & Co...... Odd Fellows Block
MAcHiNIsrs ETC.
Belfast Machine x Foundry Co.
Geo. 7 Reed Observation-Disclosures. "A Main Street
PHOTOGRAPHERS
futile 4 Son. .................H o,ves Block
W. l.. Hall OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. H I'll Street
FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKING.
L. H. Coonhs x Son. 40 and - Main Street
Spencer X Wilson ,.+.. 81 Main Street
MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKERS.
Fernald x Mudgett. Shoe Factory Annex
Mark Woods 4 S"n.,........,. Phoenix Row
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
\. l. Parsons, NJ b, Room !, Masonic Tenn
Or. Isaac Hills, Dentist, Hills Building,
High Street.
Joseph Williamson & Son, Attorneys &
Counselors at Law
INSURANCE AGENTS
Tallt7 S.' Field I,eIfast
Jos. Williamson, Jr. ................B Belfast
PATENT MEDICINES.
Da a Sarsaparilla Co............B Belfast
Skoda Discovery Co. Belfast !
WOOD AND COAL.
F. G. White. ......... Foot of Spring Street
PIANO AND ORGAN TUNER.
H. +. Marshall. .............B Box sol, Belfast !
STATIONS.
Phillips and Thackambau, owned by Mud !
gett Bros, Belfast.
REAL ESTATE.
Carver Farm in Searsport by c. F. Gordon |
Farm near Belfast, by w. f. Marsh.
w. o. Alden property, Bridge St, Belfast.
STEAMERS AND RAILROAD
Boston Bangor Steamship Co.
Steamer Castine, Belfast and Deer Isle.
Belfast branch railroad to Burnham
uPHoLsTERING AND MATTRESS WORK
F. A. Robbins. ..............37 Main Street |
PIANOS. ORGANS, MUSIC, ETC.
f. S. Pitcher. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. % High Street "
BOOTS AND SHOES
w. 7. Coburn. .McClintock Block, High St
JOB PRINTING.
H. T. oHuue.' ....'' .op Nam Street ,
HOTEL.
Crosby Inn, Wright & Varney, Proprietors.