This country of ours-- the great Southwest Illustrated statistics of a wonderful territory, home of the 280,000 subscribers of the Kansas City daily and weekly journal . theaters, anda new Convention Hall with the greatest seatingcapacity of any building of like character in theworld. Kansas City has 18 systems and 34 distinctlines of railroads; 217 miles of street railways,with universal transfers; 223 miles of paved streets,52 miles of boulevards, 2,199 acres of parks; andhas the l-owest rate of taxation of any large city inthe United States. It has the largest and best ap-pointed Live Stock
This country of ours-- the great Southwest Illustrated statistics of a wonderful territory, home of the 280,000 subscribers of the Kansas City daily and weekly journal . theaters, anda new Convention Hall with the greatest seatingcapacity of any building of like character in theworld. Kansas City has 18 systems and 34 distinctlines of railroads; 217 miles of street railways,with universal transfers; 223 miles of paved streets,52 miles of boulevards, 2,199 acres of parks; andhas the l-owest rate of taxation of any large city inthe United States. It has the largest and best ap-pointed Live Stock Exchange building in the world,Kansas City being the only city in this countrywhere a complete record of full-blooded live stock iskept; has within 150 miles extensive coal, oil andgas producing districts, Kansas City consuming 2,-000,000 tons of coal a year. Her natural gas fieldextends over a section 50 by 30 miles, and the gasis of better quality and greater volume than anypreviously discovered. In the amount of manufactured output, KansasCity surpasses any other city of three times its sizein the United States, 30,000 persons being employedin its The great newspapers of the United States arein the pathway -of trade, and a glance at the abovemap will clearly show The Kansas City Journalsstrategic position in the territory lying betweenKansas City and Frisco. It is needless to say that no campaign in theWest and Southwest would be complete withoutusing the Journal, for it should be remembered thatthis paper was founded in 1854, when Kansas Citywas a mere frontier post with less than five hun-dred people; and the community and the paper hav-ing grown up together, each helping the other. TheJournal has a clientele all its own. It Is the only metropolitan Republican newspaper In the vastterritory between St. Louis and Denver. ADVERTISING RECEIVED THROUGH ANY RECOGNIZEDAGENCY OR OUR SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVES. HAND, KNOX & COMPANY, CHICAGO, BOYCE BUILDING ST LOUIS, VICT
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