Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-08-03
Well Earned Success.
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our readers to the advertisement of
the Toland Business Universities IN
this issue of the TwICE-A-W WEEK
PLAIN DEALER and to say a few
words concerning the man who has
revolutionized business training in
the Northwest.
Eight years ago Il. j. Toland located
in La Crosse and established the now
famous Wisconsin Business Univer-
sity. Established it without asking
or receiving financial assistance of
any kind, and at the beginning of one
of the worst financial panics the world
has ever known, and in the face of
opposition that would have discour-
aged less able man.
From the start his failure was pre-
dicted, not only by his competitors
but by those who should have en-
couraged him.
That was eight years ago.
To-day Mr.. Toland is the largest
individual owner of business schools
in the world: his graduates are given
preference wherever first class work
is desired: his schools are filled to
their utmostcapacity, and throughout
the entire Northwest there is not a
bank or business man who will not
vouch for his responsibility, the high
character of his schools, and the
uniform success of his graduates in
securing positions and filling them
to the satisfaction of employers.
Mr.. Toland's success is due neither
to luck nor location, but to modern
up-to-date methods, liberal and truth
| full advertising, and his indomnitable
energy and 'push.''
| He has confidence in his schools and
invites students to attend one month
on trial free that they may learn the
difference between practical business
school, and the so-called business
colleges of his competitors. He has
confidence in his graduates, knows
just what business men demand of
their employees, and by meeting that
demand he succeeds in placing nine
tenths of his graduates in desirable
positions. He believes that advertising
to be profitable must be truthful and
liberal, and carefully avoids the ex-
aggerated statements so common in
the advertising of business schools.
AS result he has achieved a success
| that has never before been equalled
in his line of business.
| Mr.. Toland opened the Wisconsin
Business University with six students
and five teachers. The second year
he secured additional room. The third
4 year he leased ten thousand feet of
floor space, which answered his purpose
for but one year, and then, being I'M
able to secure a larger building in
La Crosse, he opened a school at
Wausau, Wis, and directed all
northern business to that city. AT
Wausau his experience was the same
as La Crosse. and his fame, the success
; of his graduates, and the value of hi.
: schools from business standpoint
J. attracted the attention of bushes
d men in nearly every prominent city il
+ the Northwest, and he was induced t.
!. open similar schools in Eau Claire
e and Monroe, Wis, and Winona ant
/, Fairmont, Mimi, all of which promis
to equal in every respect his school a
J, La Crosse.
In achieving his phenomenal success
9 Mr.. Toland has also won success 70
e hundreds of bright young men ant
d women, who would probably have re
e manned petty clerks, country schoC
e teachers, or day laborers, if it ha
v not been for him and his schools.
. In CONCLUSION, we will say, tina
there may be Others just as good a
Toland's, and other graduates just a
successful, but it would be difficult t
i convince those familiar with his schoo
L and methods that such is the case.