Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-09-01
PINE BLUFFIAN
 MAKING GOOD

Of all the busy men ill south Bend nowadays. Meyer Solmsea. director of publicity for the Manufacturers and Merchants Exposition. to be given at Muessels field in this city during the week of Sept. :, commencing Labor Day, is one of the busiest. No sixty seconds is an idle minute in Nr Solm- sons office at exposition headquarters on Lafayette street. Time is worth money there ana Mr Somson loses no opportunity to make it precious Upon the publicity department large ly depends the success of the man. moth exposition here and therefore it might be added that upon Mir Solmson's shoulders there rests much responsibility. He is certainly prov ing himself equal to the occasion and General Director Marks made wise selection when he placed MT. Solm- son at the head of his publicity de- partment.
 MT. Solmson is an experienced pulp iicity man. He was formerly press agent for the Al G. Field Greater minstrels, which visited South Bend annually, and having had years of ex- perience on several metropolitan newspapers, he is well fitted for the duties now under his supervision.
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 Besides arranging and contracting for advertising space in 30 daily and weekly newspapers in all the cities and towns around South Bend within a radius of 73 miles in every direc ton, MT. Solmson has ill charge many other features which are being han died in the interest of the exposition. He arranges daily all press matter for the exposition and it's many special days, the exposition queen contest, the Freddy bear balloon ascensions, which are taking place under the aus pices of the News here and many daiy papers throughout this section and numerous other novel and bene- ficial publicity producing propositions, all of which are purely original with i the exposition management and it's publicity department.
 The average person who visits the deposition headquarters is amazed at the great amount of work accomplish ed by this young publicity man. When he is not reviewing notices that ap- pear in the hundred Or more daily and weekly papers that arrive in the various mails during the day, he is filing away clippings, outlining his next days work or dictating to the rather pretty stenographer.
 Grinds 'Em Out.
 If not at this the youthful head of the department is designing some new advertising scheme that will serve to attract attention for the exposition.
 Hundreds of letters are sent out daily from this one department, ln- cluding new ''press dope. and fea- ture stories covering exposition work. Every day a new story must go 10 each of the many newspapers in the interest of the "Expo." and although the head of the publicity department wears only 6 3-4 hat his little cra- !nium "dishes out interesting reading matter that is of such clever "get-up' as to assure it publication. X Go shen day" story must go to each of the Goshen papers and each story applies to Elkhart Laporte, Kendall vile and Ligonier. Niles, St. Joseph, and Sturgis, Mich.. and various other towns and cities which have been al- lotted special days at the exposition.
 In addition to these many duties Mr. Solmson has 20 big newspapers in the city of Davenport, Ia, and vicinity to supply with press matter relative to the Davenport River Carnival-EX- position, which is to be handled by his company, and 12 papers al Mon'- mouth, H., and vicinity in the inter- est of the Monmouth homecoming which will also be conducted by the deposition people.
 Notwithstanding all these duties Mr. Solmson never overlooks an oppor- l tunity to tell it to the reporter, re- ceive other visitors at headquarters and incidentally impress upon them