Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-27
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Searsboro, Jan. PA page beer
ad." recently appeared simultaneously
in all of the western daily papers
Probably in no state in the union does
such advertising receive the condem-
nation that it does here. This is both
Il compliment to the readers and the
papers. 1t shows that many of our citl-
zens are close readers, advertisements
and all. Coming in contact with all
sorts and conditions of men for many
years. the writer has heard criticisms
on the following ads. i'm our papers
whisky and all liquor advertisements,
beer and malt extracts, tobacco in all
forms, cigars, cigarets, chewing to-
bacco and snuff; patent medicine ads.
of all linds theatrical advertisements,
especially those of ballet performances,
and Sunday sacred concerts; railroad
Sunday excursions; also cheap eNcur-
sions from nearby towns; also cheap
rates for landseekers outside of oWa;
advertisements of travelling doctors of
all kinds. Some object to fire ana
bankrupt sales Then too, quite a
number object to church society adj
yertising a fair or Sunday school ex-
cursion. Some object to a paid notice
of the program for next Sunday at the
stone church.
The same critical readers of such
advertisements go farther, and object
to story in daily paper, i. e., fiction.
The reports of a murder trial are an
outrage, and should not be permitted
for the edification of boys and girls.
Concerning Il divorce trial. words to
express their indignation are not to
be found in the dictionary. Ditto on
an Associated Press report of a prize
fight The same on legal executions.
SO of the reports of all crime from
petty larceny to highway robbery. Card
party reports and social daces are bad
without advertising them on
the local pages. During a political
a paper that shows up the
real characters of the seekers for office,
is accused of lying, and such papers
should be sued for libel. All this is
no defense of either of any kind of
or newspaper reading mat
ter. The papers need no defense for,
their patrons are served with just
what the majority want. If these things
are wrong the public is to blame. No
argument in this line is needed, when
one glances at the modern religious
weekly They are run exactly on the
lines of an enterprising daily. 1t is
not so long ago that daily with all
of the Objectionable features left out,
had a brilliant run of few weeks
and cost the enterprising experimenters
$35. 0OG.
AS a bit of personal experience, this
scribe's observation In this line may be
One of the most severe
critics of beer ads. while full of elo-
quence chewed nearly 10 cent plug
of tobacco, and sprinkled store floor
for ten feet in every direction AN
anti-cigaret man, in the writer's pres
ence, smoked a pipe loaded with Sail
ors' Delight, one whiff of which would
kill any cigaret smoker. a Sunday
excursion opposer rides out and plays
golf Sunday afternoon. An objector to
q divorce report actually borrowed
paper of the writer to read said re-
port And it is a fact one man that
especially objects to reports of prize
fights, has had three personal knock
downs since he has lived in Nextown.
One doctor so terribly worked up be-
cause of the travelling doctors adver-
tisements, spent half an hour giving
the writer an account of an operation
he performed (which would be inter-
esting to your readers" One apprecia-
tive reader of a paper that was run
Clean" stepped up and subscribed for
three months subscription to a weekly
at an expense OF 25 cents. Wanted to
encourage such newspaper work. One
man who seriously opposed accounts
in newspapers of highway robberies
because it suggested such things to-
young boys. "bucked" the wheel of
fortune at the Lastown fair. and lost
eighteen dollars. Another critic of the
brutal accounts Of legal hangings.
and more so when Judge Lynch holds
court, calmly stood by when two dogs
were chewing up one another, and
wanted "to let 'em fight it out AM
other reader of playing card adver-
tisenents, who thought it wrong. buys