The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-11-11
OFF GOES OUR HAT


We tip our hat and throw it into
the air to do honor and show our
admiration for the Tampa Tribune
and the Tampa Hardware Company.
The Sunday issue of the Tribune
carried an advertisement Of the Tam
pa Hardware Company of forty-eight
pages
1t is the biggest advertisement of
any one concern ever printed in any
newspaper in the United States and
from literary and typographical
standpoint IS a masterpiece.
We feel personal pride in this
achievement because the heads Of
both the Tribune and the Tampa
Hardware Company are friends of ours
Of long standing.
No plaudits are too big to be placed
on the brow of Peter O. Knight.
Born in Pennsylvania and educated
in Indiana he came to Florida when
yet boy and Immediately put him.
self in touch with the best minds of
the state and made, their cause his
cause and Immediately took an ac-
tive part in it's political activities as
well as in its industrial achievements.
He selected the pretty little town
of Fort Myers as his home town when
Lee county was part Of Monroe. He
was its first mayor and little while
before was compelled to decline the
nomination for the legislature because
he was under the legal age.
He was a conspicuous figure in all Of
our Democratic State conventions and
attracted universal attention and
won enconiums for his classic ora
lions.
He later moved to Tampa and
quickly saw its possibilities and put
himself in position to take advantage
Of them and make them real and tan
gible and the establishment of the
Tampa Hardware Company is one Of
the many enterprises that he was the
chief factor in promoting and all the
while was achieving distinction in
the practice of law.
And Of Wallace Stoyall! How much
can be said in his praise and to what
proportions he has grown.
He. too, came to Florida before
reaching his majority. He brought
with him little Of wealth but plen-
titude Of those things which create
tia stout heart, strong arms, will
ing hands and dauntless determine
ton to win success.
His first venture was a little paper
at Lake Weir, next at SumtervilIe,
then at Barlow and finally captiyat-
ed with the glowing possibilities Of
Tampa he purchased the Tribune.
then a struggling weekly which had
had a precarious existence. and step
by step brought 1t to its present com
manding position
While building up one of the big
gest paying newspapers in the state
and one that is universally admired
because of its steadfastness to the
faith of the fathers he has also
been factor in building up other
enterprises as colossal as the Tribune
We are proud that he began his
career and caught his first inspira-
ton in Ocala and almost under our
tutelage.
We again lift our hat to these two
workers in the industrial activities of
one of the fast growing cities of Flor
ida.
But back to the monster edition
Of that issue of the Tribune: The
weight of the edition was $500
pounds; it required truck carrying
7,545 pounds eight trips to haul the
edition to the post Office; the cost Of
the white paper on which the edi-
fion was printed was $3.50, making
each copy for white paper alone cost
exactly nine cents and the paper was
sold to dealers for less than half that
sum.
Every person connected with the
adition So excellentIy gotten together
Il entitled 10 the heartiest commenda'
tion for they have fairly won the
prsise 81. "well dofe!"
rranIovment can be had only If