The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-09-04
THE lKIMBALLG
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Official Paper Of the City and County

SIAlE llNAN
Official Paper Of the City and County
The Hudson Tribune is one of that
class OF small newspapers to strain at
a gnat and swallow whole droves of
camels. It's a wonder it survives
this last strain:
Some individual or association at
Mitchell has over whelmed us with a
mighty offer, and our gasps CT delight
were so frequent that We were totally
incapacirated from accepting the
alluring offer. They offer to send us
(prepaid, mind yOu) any number of
printed circulars advertising Mitchell
we may desire. All they ask is that
we fold them, into the Tribune as an
extra sheet and pay the additional
postage. AS we have arisen to remark
before, We are getting most confound-
eddy tired of the unmitigated gall of
some people who expect a newspaper
to advertise their private business free
and pay u own postage. We run a
print shop for what we get out Of it
charge Our local advertisers for
space and will be ''tetotashiously
chawed" il we are going to give my
body outside of Hudson forty or fifty
dollars worth of advertising for less
than nothing. See!
The printed circulars referred to
are some supplements which the
Mitchell corn palace committee-fol.
lowing its usual custom-is having
printed for general and gratuitous
distribution by the newspapers Of the
state-of which it seems the Tribune
was asked to be one. One side of
these supplements is devoted exclusive
ly to a comprehensive a write-up of
the SYSTEMATICALLY set off with
half-tone cuts-as could very well be
contained in 1000 words-eyen if this
writer did put it together. The page
devoted to this feature is so good an
advertisements for all of South Dakota,
without reference to locality, that
any newspaper can consistently cir
culate the supplements to its own
advantage-even though the opposite
page does contain an advertisement,
of the Mitchell corn palace and It's
attractions. 1t is not too much to say
that any enterprise like the Mitchell
corn palace, the former Aberdeen
grain palaces or a state fair is the
best kind of advertising for the state
and, as such, seryes to benefit all.
South Dakota never had a better ad-
vertisement than the Mitchell corn
palaces; and, as now generally known,
the South Dakota building at the St.
Louis exposition is to be a duplicate
OF the Mitchell corn palace. None
of these enterprises are money MAX
ing affalrs-the receipts Of the Mitch
ell corn palace feles always falling
short several thousand dollars from
paving expenses. # they serve to draw
attention to the town, they also
serve to advertise the resources of the
state and its people. We assure our
touchy contemporary atHudson that
those having the circulation Of the
supplements in hand and more cor
cerned in providing a sufficient num-
Der to supply the demand than in
getting them circulated-some one
hundred and fifty newspapers already
having ordered them-with the Sioux
Falls Argus-Leader asking for IL, 900
on It's own account. In the newspaper
business all our life we understand,
perhaps, as we'll as the Tribune
something of the extent to which
country newspapers are ssworked,''
but at the same time it does not pay
a newspaper or an individual to be
selfshly wrapped up in its own affairs
and have no word of praise or assist
ance to offer Others without a
price for it. 1t was not this spirit that
builded South Dakota. It was not
this spirit which builded any Of our
western country.