Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1897 — "The Old Yellow Almanac.” [ARTICLE]

"The Old Yellow Almanac.”

When Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote the poem haring for title the aame heading* as this article, she touched a chord that Tibrated in thousands of hearts. For Ayer’s Almanac, "The Old Yellow Almanac” of the poem, is intimately associated with the days and deeds of a large part of the world’s population. How large a part of the population this general statement may include can be gathered from the fact that the yearly issue of Ayer’s Almanac is from 17,000,000 to 25.000,000 copies. It is printed in twenty-eight editions and in some eighteen languages, including, besides Huglish. Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Bohemian, Welch, Italian. French, etc. The old style almanac is looked upon by many as a relic of antiquity, especially the "patent medicine almanac,” whose jokes are the butt often of the very papers in whose columns they first appeared. But there are almanacs and almanacs. Ever since Dr. Ayer's Almanac has been put out it has employed as high a class of mathematical and astronomical talent as is available in the country. The result is that it stands on a par, in respect of the reliability of its data and the accuracy of its calculations, with the U. S. Nautical Almanac, and testimony to this fact is found year after year in the letters, referred to the almanac department of the company, front students and mathematicians in various parts of the world. In its permanence and reliability Ayer’s Almanac stauds as a very fitting type of the Ayer Remedies—indispensable in the family and reliable every day in the year. The 1897 edition of this useful almanac is now in course of distribution through the drnggists of the country.