Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-11

drugs" He invites physicians to call
and examine his stock of "calomel,
blue mass, ipecac, opium, quinine,
iodine, morphine and camphor"
list thatof itself, would throw a dozen
deciple Of Hahnemann into an ague
chill. Added to this he has a stock of
indigo, putty, paints, brushes, mad
der, glass, oils, pure white lead, dye
stuffs, glassware, varnishes, etc
Whiskey 20 Cents Per Gallon.
A Nudge & Co., were next in order
to offer dry goods and groceries,
which they do in the third column. In
their comprehensive list is to be found
"rectified whiskey by the barrel, at
only 20 cents per gallon The Farm
er's Cheap Store" is kept by w. S.
Carter & Co., where everything from
sewing silk to tin plate stove, or
from saw mill to pepper sauce is Of
fered to the customer. Carter and Co.,
add to the Farmers Store "a large and
complete stock of drugs and medi
cines." Hunter & Baldwin offer a
stock of summer and fall goods, and
offer the highest market price for
10000 pounds of good bacon, 5000
bushels of wheat, and 500 bushels Of
good fax seed. A half column is given
to patent medicine, Or. Rogers com
pound Syrup of liverwort and tar for
the safe and certain cure of consump-
ton" An the final advertisement is
of a public sale" of household goods,
live stock etc, by David Hall The
fourth page is made up from selec.
lions and a prospectus of the
Courier.
Daily 46 Years Old.
While Saturday completed it's
siXtieth year as weekly, it's career as
a daily goes back to the days of the
civil war and it is in the forty-sixth
year as an evening daily paper. Be-
ginning with an old hand press which
was used for several years during the
early life of the Courier to print
each addition, it gradually developed
and grew until a cylinder press of the
fiat bed style was installed, and con-
tinuing on in its development, later
and more improved styles of the cyl
inder presses were used until in order
to keep up with it's ever growing cir
culation it was found necessary to
make the early trains with its mail
edition for the out of the city sub
scribers, to accomplish this and at the
same time give the outside readers
the latest news obtainable. linotype
machines were installed which done
away with setting the type by hand
and revolutionized the work of the
newspaper.
Modern Machinery.
This Improvement necessiated an
other and perhaps greater innovation
in newspaper publishing, the per-
fecting press. The first press of this
kind was installed by the Courier
while the paper was published in the
Leighton building on Market street in
1898. Six years later, year after
coming into its own building on Sec
ond street another and larger perfect
ing press was installed In 1904 to keep
up with the advancement of the pa
per and this machine is able to print
paper 8, 10, or 10 pages at the rate
of 10000 per hour. This too has been
found to be inadequate to the demands
of the ever increasing subscription
list and the need for more space to
tell the news, local and telegraphic
for the benefit of the large number of
Courier readers and satisfy the de-
mand for advertising space for the
large number of merchants and other
advertisers who use the Courier" as
their chief medium of publicity. An
other and more complete perfecting
press is being installed now and this
wonderful machine Is the climax OF
the inventors genius as 1t will print,
cut, fold and in fact turn out complete
$4,000 twenty-four page papers per
hour and is three presses in one.
Four Merganthaler linotype ma
chimes are at present necessary to set
up the reading matter of the Courier
and another machine of the same kind
is soon to be added in order to handle
the great volume of news for the read
ers of the paper.
Lee Syndicate.
The motto of the Lee Syndicate
has ever been and is yet, to make
their various papers the very best
newspapers in their locality. and THUG
far they have been eminently success
full in carrying out the motto to the