. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . Porter andWinslow. He wason board the gun-boat Baron de Kalb, when it was blown up y<f under the confeder-ate fort on the YazooRiver in the rear ofVicksburg. Mr. Johnsons experience also includes eightyears service in theBoston at a timewhen trade journal-ism was in its in-fancy, the New Eiig-l a n d Grocer hasgrown until it is nowthe largest and mostinfluential groceryjournal in the UnitedStates. Its ])olicyhas always been athoroughl
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . Porter andWinslow. He wason board the gun-boat Baron de Kalb, when it was blown up y<f under the confeder-ate fort on the YazooRiver in the rear ofVicksburg. Mr. Johnsons experience also includes eightyears service in theBoston at a timewhen trade journal-ism was in its in-fancy, the New Eiig-l a n d Grocer hasgrown until it is nowthe largest and mostinfluential groceryjournal in the UnitedStates. Its ])olicyhas always been athoroughly inde-pendent one, guidedby principle and right. The New England Grocer commenced its successfulcareer more than fifteen years ago. June 6, 1877, wasthe date of the initial number, when it was founded byits present manager, Mr. Johnson. At that time it wasa new venture, and the trade was slow to appreciate thevalue of having a paper entirely given up to its those days the value of advertising to their customerswas not appreciated by merchants as it is to-day, whenthe trade journal exercises a potent influence for good. BENJAMIN JOHNSON. in the special field which it occupies. Not timorously,but with becoming modesty, the Neiv England Grocerstarted. Its first number had a total of but twelvepages, but by an intelligent, independent course, and byan earnest devotion to the best interests of its constit-uency it gained the confidence of the trade. Thus itgrew, and the business pressure upon its columns neces-sitated constant additions to its pages, until at thepresent time its regular weekly issue never falls below sixty pages, but runsat seventy-two pagesa large part of thetime; and it some-times reaches a hun-dred. Its circulationand influence havefully kept pace withits mechanical ex-pansion, until now itreaches each weekpractically the entiretrade in every sec-tion of the country,penetrating the re-mo t e s t hamlets o fN e w E n g 1 a n d. Itwas with the NewEngl
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