The acme magazine . and only run the paper two orthree months. Theywant to wait andsee if you can holdout a year beforethe y risk anymoney. But , aint thata beaut of a bou-quet ? Loveliestpiece of calico youever laid eyes ongave me that. Oneof the old families,too—treated me socordially I wascompelled to stayto dinner. The Colonel fi-nally found anopening to inject aquestion: How long dovou calculate wecan run a news-paper on bouquetsand credit sub-scriptions ? Colonel, I guessI did stay too longat one place, but Ithink I can improve on this days piece of calico, though,
The acme magazine . and only run the paper two orthree months. Theywant to wait andsee if you can holdout a year beforethe y risk anymoney. But , aint thata beaut of a bou-quet ? Loveliestpiece of calico youever laid eyes ongave me that. Oneof the old families,too—treated me socordially I wascompelled to stayto dinner. The Colonel fi-nally found anopening to inject aquestion: How long dovou calculate wecan run a news-paper on bouquetsand credit sub-scriptions ? Colonel, I guessI did stay too longat one place, but Ithink I can improve on this days piece of calico, though, could hardly expect a fellow to doany better under the circumstances. As summer advanced the land boomgrew apace, and incidentally the Cycloneprospered and gained influence. Itspages fairly brimmed over with ads ofland sales and lot auctions in the mostimpossible locations. The two hotels andthe boarding houses of Steelville werecrowded with investors and whole country appeared to have. Col. Bcvicr, Editor. gone land mad. Additions to Steelvillewere surveyed in the woods miles fromtown, an alleyway cleared through theforest and named Pennsylvania avenue,or something equally high-sounding, andat the auction sales men climbed overeach other in their eagerness to buy the25-foot lots at prices which a few daysbefore would have bought the entiretract. Even Jim Beazelys ole po farmwas subdivided into a town site and thatgentleman was now considering whetherSteelville was bigenough for a manof his financialstanding and busi-ness acumen. During thisreign of generalprosperity the Col-onel had taken ad-vantage of condi-tions to issue an il-lustrated tradeedition of the Cy-clone, which hadproven quite suc-cessful financially,and was regardedas a brilliant strokeof enterprise and agreat advertise-ment for the coun-try. One of themost prominentfeatures of the edi-tion was the largenumber of por-traits of promi-nent men of thetown and county,fulsome write-upsac
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