Middletown transcript., 1897-01-30
HERE'S YOUR Op-
PORTUNITY.
A New Eight-VOlulne En-
cyclOpaedia
At About Your Own Price.

| Every one who has had occasion to
| consult the cumbersome old encyclo-
| psdias for some needed information,
effectuallyconcealed in some long article,
will be glad to know of the appearance
of a new general reference work built
along different lines, so that any child
who can read may successfully consult
| it.
Such work is The New Standard
American Encyclopedia in eight large
quarto volumes, and which embraces
the substance of all the other encyelo-
p@dias, besides very large amount of
new up-to-date matter none of them
contain. 1t introduces vast number
of new words, names, facts, ideas, in
ventions, methods and developments.
1t treats, in all, over 10000 topics,
which is from 5000 to 10000 more than
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STANDARD American" have also laVishly
embellished the new work. There are
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encyclopedia has undertaken to present.
This feature will be found of the highest
value in the education of the young, for
the pictures and colored maps will have
distinct fascination for them, and thus
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The professional or business man,
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Another feature in which the new
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and veritable mine of information on
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But it is in it's treatment of recent
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The X-Ray," "Argon," "Horseless
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Detailed particulars regarding tho
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your own price, may be fonnd IN an
on another page Of this
issue.