Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-06-07


Star-Courier will not find it neces-
sary to get out a fiftieth anniversary
number for some little time. but
when il does, it will hope for nothing
higher than that its effort be entitled
to as much credit as is this splendid
sixty page paper of The Arugs.-
kewanee Star-Courier.
Saturday. April 20, The Rock Island
Argus attained its fiftieth birthday
and celebrated the auspicuous event
with a handsome jubilee edition
which was masterpiece of the
printers art and clearly demonstrate
ed very rich fertility of resources
and the possession of Il complete
plant. The Argus is one of the few,
very few, staid reliable journals
which rightfully declines to follow in
the mad chase after sensationalism
y close scrutiny of the files of The
Argus Will not disclose single
streak of yellow, and its co-workers
i'm the news world as well as the pub
lie, are grateful to it for its purity
and noble abstinence from the
cheap claptrap methods altogether
too prevalent among newspaper
makers. The Argus "of the hundred
leyes" can well be proud of its past,
for in that past il has builded Sc
cure foundation for n prosperous
future existence which we heartily
wish Will extend to many more jubi-
lees.-Belleyille Morning Record.
The Rock Island, ILL.,, Argus has is
sued "A special number celebrating
the half-centennial of its founding
that cXcels anything of its character
that has come under our observa-
ton. 1t contains ffty-siN pages.
handsomely printed and illustrated.
The paper represents a thrifty estab-
lishment and has as a field of circu-
latiOn Rock Island. Moline and Dav-
export, the latter being in Iowa, but
all being so closely together that
they are virtually one community
Besides, it circulates in neighboring
towns out on the lines of the differ
ent railroads from these points.
The public institutions and men, and
the leading mercantile and manufac-
turing establishments of Rock Is
land are well set forth in the special
edition, pictorially and otherwise.
IOf course. nearly all those thus rep
resented in the paper must have con-
tributed literally towards paving the
expense of the edition, which was
very large. The Rock Island Argus
is published by the j. w. Potter
company.-CairoD Daily Argus.
The fiftieth anniversary edition Of
The Rock Island Argus has reached
our table and is certainly a credit to
that enterprising paper. 1t com
Iprises fifty-siX pages of well written.
cleverly compiled and clearly print
ed matter, with especially designed
front page in colors. The entire edi-
ton is profusely illustrated with cuts
of local celebrities, business and pro-
fesSional men, churches, public
buildings, etc; also a very fine selec-
ton of interior views of The Argus
office, which go to show that the
paper is lat home" in quarters APP
preaching the ideal in equipment and
convenience of arrangement.-Paris
Beacon.
The Rock Island Argus issued this
week a paper commemorative of its
tiftieth anniversary. The effort is
one worthy of fifty years of success
full newspaper work. The edition
contains sixty pages, every one of
which is an eXemplitication of the
highest art of printing. The paper
is filled with interesting matter, in
terspersed with cuts of prominent
personages and important buildings
in the city of Rock Island. The in
dustries of the city are given due
publicity and the reader of the sou-
venir edition will have better know
ledge of the city of Rock Island. The
Rock Island Argus is to be compl-
mcnted upon its fiftieth anniversary
jubilee number.-Aledo Times-ISe-
cord.
The Rock Island Argus has just
celebrated its 50th anniversary by
issuing a special number. 1t is an
immense edition containing sixty
pages of interesting reading matter,
cuts of prominent men and impor-
tant buildings of the city of Rock Is
land. All the industries of the city
are nicely written up and the reader
will learn much about, them by
careful perusal of this souvenir edi-
ton. The edition is splendid
specimen of the highest art of news
paper printing.-Aledo Democrat.
The Rock Island Argus completed
the fiftieth year of its existence last
] autumn, being but few months the
junior of The Dixon Telegraph. Cir
cumstances delayed the issuance of
it's jubilee number, which now APP
pears; a most worthy monument TO
the enterprise and painstalling labor
of its publishers and editorial corps.
1t contains sixty pages of seven col
umns each, with chromatic cover, il
Illustrated with hundreds of engrav-