Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-09-02
WAS An epoch
Making edition
NEWSPAPER MAN CONGRATU.
LhIES TULSA ON HOME AND
PROGRESS" NUMBER
The Peer Of ALL Others
Declares ,he SpcC'II Edition Was ,hr
Best Of lts Kind Ever Publish
cd in tho Southwest.

ii one We're TO start cuugratulating
somebody on the Home ana Progress
edition of The W Jrld which appeared
.uuuaN one would hardly know
where TO begin,
1t rs altogether nsung that the
people OF IuIsa receive the first con-
gralulauuns TOR having in it's midst
such a grand institution bs The World
and further congratulated on haens
published in tins city such magni-
nccnt special edition as sundays pa
per,
n The people of the state Of Oklaho-
iIna are TO ue congratulated on having
a newspaper such as Sundays World
published within IT'S borders,
The World force, and every man
connected with Sundays paper should
be congratulated, as well as those
who were privileged TO contribute to
its columns, and the patrons as we'll.
sundays World was the largest spe-
cial edition ever published in the
state Ii was the best by an nun
drcd fold. / have been in the news
paper business all my life, and with
out hesitation, ! gladly say, Sunday's
World eClipses by far any eftoIt
have ever seen put forth. ] have seen
hundreds Of special editions, but
never ono to begin to compare with
Tho Worlds Home and Progress edi-
tion.
IT was grand, magnificent, unique;
II was more than thHt--it was not
only an event, but it WAS an Epoch.
geographically II was the last
word in the printers art. There was
not dry line I'm its los pages; there
was not supernuous paragraph -
n NrgF - Q In ~ In ~
could have been added. It cotcred
every subject that it should cover,
and overlooked none. il was an Ok
lahoma history, a monument pic
ture-a statue that will stand on lts
own foundation forever.
II was the only special edition |
have ever seen that didn't bear the
carmarks Of boom and boost; vet Il
II was the best boom and boost edition
have ever seen. Not only does the art
show in its pages, but there is more
art hidden within its columns than ~
shown by the reading of II. In news
paper building hidden art is sci
ence, and Sundays paper overtopped
the zenith Of that science. It's pages
were not made up'-the paper was
nodded from perfect mold
know of no other city where
Su'n Il paper COulu De MADE possible.
| know Of no other newspaper office
and force that could do as we'll
am not familiar with the advcrtls.
ing rates, but whatever they We're,
they were not half enough to COM
pensate the eXChequcr in the counting
room.
Those whose advertisements and IL
lustrations appeared in the edition
are to be congratulated; those who
remained out are to be pitied.
Having followed the newspaper
business through its ups and downs
(mostly downs) for a lifetime,
would feel that I was deserving the
faith if neglected to send you these
few words while you are alive. There
are 80 many failures i'm the news
paper game, that a successful one is
a novelty; but In the law of compen-
sation, I believe I'm strewing the roses
while they breathe the perfume of
success rather than lay them on the
cold, cold sod that blankets their
soulless corpses,
OMAR X. BENEDICT