The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-11-24

ment, an article which appeared in
The Real Estate and Financial
News" under date of oct. /:
The Norfolk Daily News. the
worlds greatest country newspaper
is an institution of which northern
Nebraska may we'll feel proud. Prob
ably no other one enterprise is doing
SO much to build up the territory in
which 1t CirCulates, and no other more
progressively reflects the prosperity
of this rich field.
From struggling little daily TWEEN.
ty-thrce years ago, The News has
been developed into the greatest
daily paper published anywhere in
the world in city of Norfolk's size.
When bought by the present owner,
The News was a rundown little paper
of four pages, six columns to the
page, with Il couple of columns of To-
cal news and the balance boiler plate.
Today The News is six and eight
page journal, printed with three edi-
tions daily, maintaining its own eX-
elusive Associated Press leased wire,
printed on fast and costly perfect
ing press, and distributed to 5000
homes in northern Nebraska and
southern South Dakota before night
fall. More than fifty people are EN-
ployed in The News Misunderstanding
the newspaper, job printing and bind
cry dcpartment-and the institution S
payroll is the largest in Norfolk eX.
cept that of the Northwestern Rail
road company.
In 1894 the present News building
was erected. About six years ago an
addition was built. and last year still
another addition was put on. 1t was
about eight years ago that The News
first branChed out from its local field
as purely Norfolk institution and
began to cover the broad territory
tributary to Norfolk. Train service
was such that noon paper issued
at Norfolk could reach all points of
northern Nebraska and southern
South Dakota by nightfall on the
same trains that brought papers
printed at midnight in the larger cit.
les. With this opportunity of furnish
ing so vast a territory with twelve
hours later news than any other pa
per and of getting a great deal of the
worlds Geographic news as well as
market reports out into this field
twenty-four hours ahead of any other
paper, The News took advantage OF
the situation and developed it with
untiring energy and zeal. The re
suit has been to give half of two
states all the news of the world while
it is fresh, and the greatest newspa
per in its class that has ever been
known in America has been created
AS an illustration of the great ad
vantage which The News has for Civ
ing this big field the news of the
world ahead of newspapers from 9th
er cities may be mentioned the fol
lowing big news stories that The Nor
folk Daily News distributed over
northern Nebraska and southern
South Dakota many hours ahead OF
any other paper: Pope Leo's death
in 1903, the Slocum horror in 1904
Parker's presidential nomination in
1904 the capture of Port Arthur, San
Francisco earthquake, the death OF
Edward Rosewater, Tafts nomina
ton, Cleveland's death, DR.. Cook s
north pole yarn, Johnson-J effries
prize fight, the shooting of Mayor
Gaynor, the recent blowing up of a
| French battleship, and hundreds OF
other less important stories.
The first noon edition ever issued
| by The News was Sept. 49, 1908, and
this was the beginning of the new
| News.
| A News man was sent to Bonesteel
to report an excursion into that town
almost year before the famous
Bonesteel land rush. The idea came
to mind to issue a noon edition and
send it to Bonesteel to be distributed
in the evening to the excursion
crowd. This was done, and created
so much comment that the noon edi
ton became regular institution
within a week, and now has much
| greater circulation than any Other
edition of the paper.
| When w. n. Huse came to Norfolk
from Ponca, Nov. y, 1888, and bough
The News he had in mind the projec
of some day expanding the circulation
of the paper so as to cover the terri
tory it is now reaching. He chose
| Norfolk because he saw a remarkable
railroad center from which radatet
lines of steel that would some day b,
extended into new regions, as they
have been, and over which mail trains
would carry The Norfolk Daily New:
with many hours fresher telegraphit
reports than could possibly be brough
into this field by papers from Omaha
Sioux City or Lincoln.
That dream of nearly twenty-fiv,
years ago has come true, and toda!
all of northern Nebraska and south
ern South Dakota are depending upor
The Norfolk Daily News for their in
formation as to what the world is do
ing. The News plant, from a mechan
ical standpoint, is one of the fines
printing establishments in the west
and bank and county printing ar,
being done on an extensive scale foI
a large territory.
Mr.. Huse now has associated will
him in the business his two sons, n
A. Huse and E. F. Huse.
led" HoWE'S PHILOSOPHY.