Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-09
SOME COURIER FEATURES.

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the Lincoln centennial next week,
the Courier will publish number OF
articles dealing with the life OF
Abraham Lincoln, among them three
relating to Lincoln as boy, as man
and as president. There will be 9th
er articles of an anecdotal nature,
showing the personal and lovable
side of the great emancipator' nature.
and the great celebration at Lincoln 8
birthplace, where an elaborate pro-
gram will be given, including adj
dresses by President Roosevelt, Gov
ernor Folk of Missouri, and other no
tables will be fully reported.
This will be in keeping with the
Courier's policy to give it's readers the
news. regardless of the expense or
trouble incurred. New features are be-
ing constantly added.
One feature inaugurated today IS
prize fights Of the early days, by Bar
raft O'Hara of Chicago a sporting
writer on sporting topics. This will
not interest all the Courier readers,
but the articles will be read with
great interest by thousands.
Every Tuesday the Courier pub
series of articles dealing with the
review of the topic Of the young PEG
PIES societies for the following Sun
day, written by Rev. w. T. Ellis OF
Swarthmore, Pa, a noted writer on
religious subjects. There are many,
perhaps, who are not interested in this
series of articles. but there are others
who find them of great benefit, and it
is for these the feature was secured.
There is a Junior page once week,
too, that may not be of interest to a
great many Of the elders, but it is of
interest to some of them and Of vast
interest to all the children. This fea-
ture requires the services of Junior
editor and it entails considerable ex-
pense, but there is a demand for it,
and the Courier supplies the demand.
There are other features, too, that
do not interest all the readers, but
they interest hundreds and the Cour-
Ter will continue to publish them,
making improvements from time to
time as they suggest themselves.
There is the weekly farm page, the
comic page. the correspondence from
the neighboring towns and commune
pondents, the market reports, the
| fashion hints the bits Of bright phil
osophy furnished by Ebert Hubbard
| era Albertus.)
| Aside from it's features, the Courier
is constantly broadening the scope OF
! it's news reports. In addition to the AS
ISOLATED Press reports daily from all
corners of the globe, there are special
articles from j. c. Welliver, the Cour-
| ier's Washington correspondent, and
Ora Williams. the Des Moines cor
respondent. Their articles from the
congress and the legislature supple.
ment the Associated Press reports
The Courier is also a member of the
American Newspaper Publishers as
ISOLATION, the Iowa Evening Press, as
ISOLATION, through the medium OF
which news from all over Iowa is tele
graphed when it is fresh, and the
North American Press syndicate
illustrative articles published daily.
The Courier's city news force is the
most efficient it has ever had, and
there are no more highly trained nor
more capable reporters In the state
than the members Of the local staff
| The local department IS also planning
to introduce new features in addition
to the dramatic and sporting reviews
and other features now supplementing
the local news.
| The Courier is constantly enlargine
its field and it plans to continue bet
tering its product to cover this en-
| larged field.