Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1877 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

THE INTER OCEAN. 1878. 1878. THREE EDITIONS. ’ WEEKLY, SEMI-WEEKLY AND DAILY. In making its seventh annual announcement, The Inter Ocean reassures its readers and tile public generally of its faith in tbe Republican patty and its devotion to | Republican principles. Its record during the putt year bus made it more than ever J before tho great representative Republican paper of the oountry. The yalue of such | a paper and its influence for good were 1 never more apparent than during the electoral complications of last fall and winter. The course of Tim Inter Ocean during that trying period won for it tho ndmiration and lasting friendship of Republicans everywhere. As am exponent of true Republicanism, to which the public turned for advice and for encouragement, Tub Inter Ocean stood through out’tho momentous struggle without a peer. There never wns a time when Republicans more needed a journal steadfast and true than now. Never before, in tho history of the country, has there been a period of such political interest and inquiry ns is now in the immediate future. Great questions are to bo discussed and disposed of: embarrassing complications ate to be grappled with : fundamental principles are to be defended. Republican to the pore, The Inter Ocean will giveall possible information on all political topics, and, while treating opponents with the greatest fairness, will maintain its high standing as an earnest and outspoken ad v oca to of uncompromising and unadulterated Republicanism. While Tiif. Inter Ocean stands second to no paper in the country as a political journal; it takes high rank ns an enterprising and thorough-going newspaper. During the past year it has eclipsed all Western papers iu the excellence, completeness, and reliability of its foreign dispatches and letters, and Jms had few equals in presenting in most readable shape general and home news. In every part of the world great events are occuring, with probabilities pointing to more important in tbe future. Never before was a good newspaper so important to both young and old. Iu all that goes to mako a first-class newspaper, The Inter Ocean is not excelled by any publication in tho country. It is a national newspaper, one that will be found useful and interesting to Americans in every part of the globe. While it especially represents the great interests of the Northwest, it is national in its view& and comprehensive in its news gathering. Tub Inter Ocean makes especial claim as a family paper, devoting more attention than any other political newspaper to departments prepared and conducted With the wants of the home and tbe demands of tbe family in view.

The Commercial Department is conducted with great care, and everything possible i 3 done lo make the marker, reports reliable and complete. The Agricultural Department is carefully edited by a gentleman of ability and experience. Tho Home Department is of special interest to tho litotes, iintTis devoted to the practical and useful. To Educational Matters especial attention is given. Believing that.the perpetuity of the republic depends upon the education of the people. The Inter Ocean is the warm advocate of the free . school siyifFnr," 811(1 everything that will improve and extend it. The Woman's Kingdom is a new department devoted to the interests of that largo portion of the gentler sex who, either from necessity or otherwise, desire to devote themselves to some useful occupation or profession, for the purpose of earning a livelihood. It is not for the advocacy of any particular issue, but f»r the general improvement atul elevation if the female character in every department of life. The Question and Answer Department, long a special feature of Tin Inter Ocean, is a valuable encyclopedia of information, and covers as much ground in the course of a year as many of the elaborate works published at such high prices. The Inter Ocean hasMbe largest aggregate circulation of any newspaper published in the Northwest. It is sent to more than 8,600 postoffices, distributed iu every State and Territory in the United States, in all the British provinces, and numerous foreign states and countries.

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: DAttLY—Payablk in Advance. 1 ma*fc.-p«i\vesr, tmrtiWfet 419.ftL By mail, three months, postpaid 2.5 tr SKMI-Wf:kklY—Payable in Advance. Rv mult, per year, postpaid f 3.80 By mail, d*tb of four, postpaid 12.20 By mail, club of six, postpaid 17.80 By mail, club of ten, postpaid 28.00 WEEKLY—Payable in Advanck. By mail, per y ear, postpaid... $ 1.65 Club of four, postpaid | 5.80 Club of ten, postpaid ' 13.00 Club or twenty, postpaid . . 28.00 One FREE copy with every club of twenty. Monoy can bo sent by draft, money-order, express, or registered letter, at our risk. Special arrangements made with country publishers for clubbing with their publications. (Sample copies sent free. Address THE INTER OCEAN, _ _ il9 Lake street, Chicago.

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