Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-01

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The Omaha Rec.
OF the daily publications The Bee leads
in stability and extent OF circulation, quail
ity, individuality, prestige and influence. az
the only thoroughly metropolitan daily of
the city. Founded in 1871 by Edward Rose
water, The Bee has ever since been pub
lshed under his direction without a single
change Of management and without merg-
ing with any other paper. The steady
growth and improvement Of the paper has
been co-existent with the development Of
Omaha and Nebraska.
The history of The Bee has been told
often. 1t was started by Mr. Rosewater
to favor the free school laws which are
stll effective. and without any idea Of
permanency. The success of the tiny four
page sheet was so pronounced that II was
enlarged and 1t has been enlarging at fire.
quent intervals ever since. AS OCCASION
demanded, new quarters and new mechani-
cal equipment were produced AS early an
1872 its three-revolution Hoe press with .
capacity of 5000 papers an hour was con-
sidered a marvel in omaha. In 1881 when
the first folding machine was put on the
market an order was Immediately placed By
The Bee and the device introduced in the
/ state. Larger cylinder presses then
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two $4,000 capacity double supplement Hoe
presses of the most improved design were
installed to take care properly of the paper.
| To forestal accidents the whole mechani-
cal equipment is In duplicate.
! In 1895 The Bee lCd the Jay of the limo
| type typesetting machine and its battery OF
machines is the largest in Nebraska.
These few Incidents illustrate the enter
! prise OF The Bee, that uses the newest and
the best as soon as they have been demon
strated a success. Aside from mechanical
equipment from the beginning up to the
| present The Bee has never spared money,
pains nor effort to give it's readers all the
news first, the most authentic information
and the most fearless and disinterested
Views and advice in all public matters. Its
politics has been independently republi-
can.
In 1889 the Bee building. occupying one
fourth of city square at Seventeenth and
Farnam streets, was erected the homo
OF The Bee, II is one of the greatest news
paper structures in the world and gives the
newspaper superb facilities for all its de-
partments
Until 1881 Tho Bee was an evening news
paper only IN that year the morning edi-
ton was ad'~H md since 1887 the Sunday
edition has boon issued.
Twentieth Century Farmer.
Five years ago the old Weekly Bee was
transformed into the Twentieth Century
Farmer, an up-to-date agricultural weekly.
appealing to every member OF the farm
household. 1t now has a circulation OF
$1,000 copies and leads all periodicals OF its
class in this section OF territory.
Omaha wOrId-HeraId.
The Omaha world-Herald is the second
aI1 ha lDIl hox han ntthl CHI "a
since 1889 as a merger of the Omaha Her
aid, founded by DR.. George L. Miller in
1865 and the Omaha World, started in 1855
by Gilbert M Hitchcock The Herald was
a morning paper and the World an evening
paper, and since the consolidation both
have been continued under the hyphenateS
name. In politics 1t is democratic.
Omaha Daily News.
The penny evening paper in Omaha 10
the Omaha Daily News. started In 1899. II
is owned by a syndicate having newspaper
prs perties In st. Paul. Minneapolis, Des
Moines Kansas City and Omaha. The pub
llcation occupies field OF it's own, aiming
to attract by virtue OF pictures, stories.
diversity and the spectacular type Of jour
nalism.
Minor Publications.
The Omaha Examiner, published weekly
by Alfred Sorenson is a political society
review of the lighter type The Excelsior.
Clement Chase proprietor is a society
weekly that has been published many
years. The Daily Record and the Hotel
Reporter are issued every morning the
former a synopsis of court records and
calls, municipal proceedings, real estate.
mortgage and building records, and tho
latter list OF guests at the principal
hotels of the city in extenso
number of fraternal order publications
are published in Omaha the one with the
, largest circTatIon being the Sovereign
Visitor, monthly, the official periodical Of
the Woodmen of the World Others are
the Bankers Union Herald and tho Fra
ternal Journal.
In foreign tongues the Danish Pio-
neer. the leading Danish weekly of the
United States; Bratsky Vestnek monthly:
. Hospador, mCnthly; Nebraska Tribune.
weekly; Pokrok Zapadu, weekly; OsvetA
I Americke, weekly; Svensk Pressen,
weekly; Omahr Posten. weekly; Mime
soto Novtny. weekly: Dansk Folk atl1ende
weekly; Kansas Rozhledy, weekly: KAN
sas Pokrok. weekly; Gretsky Pokrok.
: weekly.
$ The trade papers include the Trade Ex-
2 hibit, weekly, the official organ of the
: Western Travelling Mems Protective asso-
- citation and tie jobbing trade; the MILLING
r and Grain News, weekly, and the Home
: Trade Advocate weekly.
The Protector is the weekly organ OF
q the retail liquor interests. The Mercury
4 is weekly devoted to the legal profess
: sion, and the Omahan is a monthly maya
zine that aims to advertise the west "a
the best advantage. The Enterprise
weekly. is published in the interests OF
the colored race.
The Farm Ma gazine. a monthly publica,
ton. is given to agricultural matterA
Mogys Magazine is a monthly short story
publication. The leading trades union
publication IN the Western Laborer The
: Labor Advocate is in the same field.
variety OF religious publcs lions arr
I issued by church organizations. The
, True Voice Is a Catholic organ, controlled
d by the authorities of the diocese 1t Il
n issued weekly. Others are: Methodist
Q Courier, weekly; Church and Homo
/. weekly; Dial. weekly; Epworth Banneret
o weekly; Good VIII Tidngs, weekly: at
e Marks Visitor monthly; Westminster
}, weekly; Missionary Mission Leaf, monthly
i Other publications include: American
II Homestead, weekly; Children OF the Unitet
d States, monthly; High School Register