Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-07-06
BUSINESS TRAINING
That Given at the Oelwein Business
University is Practical and Sue.
ceSSfuI.
(Oelwein Record, July 81, 1867

verSity one day this week and was
agreeably surprised to find such up
to-date facilities for training young
men and women for clerical positions.
In every respect the Oelwein Busi-
ness University differs from our SO.
called business colleges, as our State
University does for public schools. Its
equipment throughout is unsurpassed.
Each student is provided with hand
some desk. The special offices are
modelled after those of the most mod
ern and up to-date wholesale houses.
Copying presses, tabulators, mimeo-
graphs, and from ten to fifteen Rem
ington, Smi tn Premier and Oliver ma
chimes that were being rapidly oper-
ated, added to the business appear
ance and for the time being, almost
convinced the newspaper man that he
was being imposed upon, and that in
stead of being in school, he was in
the Office of large metropolitan in
stitution.
WHY HE SUCCEEDS.
"There is vast difference between
your school and similar ones that
have visited and l begin to under
stand why you succeed" said the re-
porter.
eyes, you will notice quite a differ
ence in equipment, but my success is
not due to that, nor is it due to luck,
nor location, as some of my critics are
pleased to state"
"To what then, do you credit your
unusual SucceSs?"
my success, I believe, is due to the
very great demand for my graduates.
This demand is due to the fact that
they are prepared for the most diff
cult clerical positions, and that they
are able to hold these positions after
they go TO them.
POSITIONS FOR GRADUATES.
"Am I to understand that all your
graduates secure positions?"
"No, but the majority do. At the
present time I have assisted every
competent graduate of this school to
secure a position, that has asked my
help, and If should receive a call for
q bookkeeper or stenographer, this
morning, could not I'LL it. At the
present time l have several applica-
tions on file that / cannot fill. Here
Mr.. Eklund handed the reporter let.
ter file, from which he selected ten
letters, from responsible business
firms, asking for bookkeepers and
stenographers, and in each instance
the letter was briefed, 'no one to
send''
Have you placed any students in
positions, lately?"
Eyes, during the past few weeks Mr..
81. Messerer has secured position
with the @. G. W., of this city; Mr.,
Otis Morton has been transferred to
Waterloo with the Q. g. w.; Albert
Berridge with the Winthrop State
Bank; Miss Jeanette Haskin with
Sears, Roebuck s. Co., Chicago; Mr.,
Frank Rider with the Oelwein Groc.
cry Co; Mr.. Willis Peck with the Bay
State Co., Chicago; Miss Lucy Pope
with the Iowa College for the Blind,
Vinton, Iowa; Mr.. Anton Fiala with
the Burghoff Brewing Co., Chicago;
Mr.. Herbert Everett with the @. g.
W., Fairbank, Iowa; Miss Cecil Eek
mart with Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chi
cago; Mr.. b. Z. Becker with w. II.
Jackson Co., Chicago.
A WORK OF ART.
The reporter was then shown Mr..
Eklund's new catalogue, which is just
off the press. This catalogue IL cor.
tainlY q work of art, aud u'.ta from
other school eatalovr. as much as hip
sonooi auss tf'.n "a other schools. Thro-
usn'aS ne entire book, Mr.. Eklund
as allowed his friends to talk for him
ana they have done so. There are let
tefs from prominent business men
from all parts of the country, tnat
employ and commend his graduates,
ana page after page of letters from
graduates, thanking him for their ed
ucation, and the position he has Sc
Cur d for them.
ONE MONTH TRIAL FREE.
VI notice in your catalogue that you
ADVERTISE one months 3 trial free"
"What does that mean?"
"Just what it says, 1 invite students
to attend one month on trial free and
II at the end Of that time they are
dissatisfied they Withdraw and nc
charges will be made for tuition"
well it seems to me that you mus,
have great deal of confidence in tht
superiority of your work.
II have, and it is a positive fact that
have never lost q student on the tri
al month proposition.
This closed the interview, but the
reporteE could not help but think tha'
II there we're few more men like r
q. EAl lund and few more scholar
Ike the o. B. u, OF Oelwein, Iowa
there would be fewer incompetent
bookkepers and half baked steno.
graphers, and 10 consequence, les
profanity upon the part Of the over,
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