Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-20
THE ENLARGED T..R.

T,-R.'s history. Today and every day
hereafter readers OF the Times Republi-
can Will receive one more column of
news on each of the eight pages of the
paper, or eight columns additional each
day. which In six days amounts to more
than fs offered in any OF the padded
Sunday editions. with the superior adj
vantage OF being distributed turnout
the week SO as to give space for a larger
news service. while the padded edition
|of the seventh day must necessarily
contain miscellaneous matter OF little
news value and often of little interest
to the reader. In Its present size the
Times Republican is the largest every
day daily paper published in Iowa. and
in keeping with its size 1t will endeavor
to be known as the best as we'll.
OF course changes of this kind in a
daily newspaper Office entail great adj
ditional expense. The fret cost is the
enlarged typesetting equipment. For
this purpose the T.-R. in. July. added to
its battery at a cost OF $3.50 one more
OF those ingenious and marvellous Mer-
genthaier .linotypes. Not content with
the work OF setting type with almost
human intelligence. and distributing
each letter in its own box again when
used, this machine has been SO linz
proved az to set the small black head
lines In addition to the ordinary body
type, alternating from one to the other
Instantly at the will OF the operator.
The additional column on each of eight
pages of large edition day after day
Will require thousands of dollars worth
of additional paper and the extra edi-
torial force and additional telegraph
and telephone tolls necessary to fill the
enlarged paper every day, week in and
week out, will foot up to another pretty
sum, but the progress Of daily Journals
ism in Iowa has set swift pace and
the newspaper thatrts determined to
take the lead and keep 1T thruout a long
race must not fear expense.
Heretofore the T.-R. has not been
afraid to spend money in lettering its
product, and each time increased BUSH
ness has always responded to pay for
the enterprise. Today the T.-R. gives
the people Of Iowa all the telegraph
news Of the world thru Its membership
In the Associated Press with repre-
sentative in every known corner OF the
civilized globe, better edited than a
Chicago paper, because the news is con-
densed for the busy reader. Besides
this service the IT, r. does what no oth-
Ter paper in Iowa does, it maintains a
STAN of over 500 special Iowa correspon-
dents who cover the Iowa news field
more carefully and more thoroughly
than any state was ever covered by one
newspaper, unless 1t be perhaps such
publications az the Globe Democrat OF
ST. Louis or Star Of Kansas City. There
are hundreds Of newspapers larger than
the T-R., perhaps many better, but
very few that cover the news field OF an
entire state as thoroughly. In Chicago
the papers are filed with Chicago news,
lin New York 1t isl the Knickerbocker
news; in each large paper II is the local
news that oyershadows all others. In
the T.-R. the Marshalltown news is held
safely confined to two page. and the
state news given full sway over all 9TH
en- pages Because of this cosmopoli-
tanism the T.-R. can, without seeming
presumptive. be compared to such re-
nowned publications as the ones named
above. 1t is an Iowa newspaper for
iowa people, and with its present size,
equipment ard organization can give an
iowa reader more value for his money
than any other newspaper published.