Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1904 — The Annihilation Of Distance [ARTICLE]

The Annihilation Of Distance

How much nearer to each other the nations of the world seem to be today and really are today than was the case a few decades ago! When weeks and months were required for oommunioation between the United States and Europe the countries of the old world appeared to be a long way off. Now the ciroumferenoe of old earth is belted with telegraph and cable lines in every possible direction. What happens today in Europe, zlsia, Africa, Australia, South America and the great islands of the sei is made known to us to-morrow by great newspapers like The Chicago Record-Herald, whose foreign correspondents are located in every important city in the world ou l side of the United States. In addition to its own staff correspondents The Record-Herald enjoys the foreign news service of the New York Herald, famous for many years for the reliability of its foreign news; the New York World, and also of that great co operative newsgatherassooiation, the Associated Press. No other daily newspaper in America possesses facilities so varied and extensive for covering the news of all nations.