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TFTE EVENTNO GAZETTE. BURLINGTON. IOWA. SATURDAY, JANUARY 2fi. 1907.THE BURLINGTON OF TODAYOn one great occasion. not so Iona ago, the Gazette had the following to to ssy of Burlington. It ha* had no reason to change its mind. \nd to-day It call* the attention of the world to these absolute and undeniable facts, ft is a tip to use in your arguments, when people ask you some information about the town in which you live: Burlington to-day is full of promise for a great future. Awaking from a lethargy brought abotn by continued contentment, and continued prosperity, it has commenced to realize Its own Importance and lay claim to the superior advantages that have always existed, hut allowed to sleep for lack of energy or desire to present them to the world.Burlington fs strictly a self mado town. Not a dollar’s worth of foreign capital has been a factor in its existence or Its growth. Its buildings are owned by our home people; its hanks are capitalized with home money; its great factories have been butldcd and are operated with the home dollar tend heme talent. Our merchants, wholesale and retail, have grown up with our town and today present an unbroken front of growth and prosperity that has no equal in any town of Its size on the globe.Every factory in this whole elty and (hey are larger and more numerous than in any other Iowa town, have grown from diminutive sire and primitive business until they will compareI In size with the greatest and compete with them all in any market of the world.That they are pro^ierous Is best evidenced by the appearance of thrift that surrounds them Everywhere I bustle and business, enlargement and Improvement, and there Is hardly one of these great institutions In our whole i city within the memory of the 10* I year eld resident, but has Increase ! Its capacity from 100 to 1.000 per coat within his personal knowledge.And thefe Is room for more. The fr.( t* are that a Burlington product ts famous In every market It reaches, just by the name, in no communityI docs machinery have better name than the product of our Murray Iron Works.Burlington furniture Is sold from the Mississippi river to 1he Pacific coast. The Leopold Desk company send* its product to every civilized country be tween Greenland’s icy mountains ‘and India's coral strand. The Buffington Wheel Works are as famous in Eng Ir.nd as America Burlington buttons an sold In every European city and Burlington baskets are found tn every part of the United .States.When you start a factory, the mere knowledge that your product is ma lo In Burlington is sulflcU nt to make its reputation.If you w'ant to come here ou^ people will locate you. stick to you, and lend a helping hand and make you businessand is steadily growing.BURLINGTON has forty-seven halls where public meetings may be held.BURLINGTON entertained the first political gathering ever held in this j state.BURLINGTON has thirteen public] schools and six private and parochialschools.BURLINGTON has successfully fought race suicide. It has 7,93*1 children of school age.BURLINGTON has the best afternoon newspaper on the Mississippi river, between St. Paul and St. Jxmis, if we do say it ourselves.BURLINGTON capital alone has built and fostered every industry tn our city. There is no foreigu capital invested here.BURLINGTON Is headquarters for the Fourth district U. S. Internal Revenue of Iowa and H. O. Weaver is collector.BURLINGTON has sixty five socialBURLINGTON has 30,000 population ’ BURLINGTON has two telegraphj and cable companies.mmmmmBURLINGTON sells wagons In Ja-pan, desks in India and buttons tn I Paris,BURLINGTON is the only city tn j Iowa that ever produced three United 8tates senators.BURLINGTON has thirty miles yfl paving and over fifteen mtles of street! railway.BURLINGTON golf links and golf club easily leads all similar organic-j lions in the state.BURLINGTON has two gas companies and this product costs the c.lt;n-‘ sumer only $1.00 to $1.40 per thousand! feet.BURLINGTON nor Des Moin's; county has over lost a penny by a dis-J hone«^ public or financial oificlal in j the last twenty years.* BURLINGTON enjoys the distlnc-' tlon of being the first point In Iowa where Iron rails were laid for iallroad trhln service.sBURLINGTON has the only gr*atBURLINGTON has many beautiful BURLINGTON has three hospital* residences and fine business buildings. * two Catholic and #ne Protestant.and fraternal organizations outside lt;’fj,hopi ln lhe WP,t thHt manufacture a labor unions, which are conducted| loromotlre COmpIetc, from the pig along very conservative lines. lronBURLINGTON’S public library Isone of the handsomest in the west and Andrew Carnegie did not build icj Our patriotic and loyal citizens contributed the money and did the work.BURLINGTON manufactures more|cigars every year than any throe cities j in Iowa with the exception of Davenport. The internal Revenue reports, prove this.* BURLINGTON is the healthiest town on the American continent. Nearly fifty per cent of the deaths in ! the past twenty-five years have been, from old age. The health statistics show this.BURLINGTON’S sanitary condition?* are splendid and the natural lay of the land insures healthfulness. The j business sectiojn is in a valley and the j residence portion on the hills sur-j rounding It on all sides except the east j where flows the Mississippi.BURLINGTON has about the best fire insurance rates in the state as aresult of it being a splendid risk.BURLINGTON employs more skilled labor In its factories and Industries than any town in Iowa.BURLINGTON ha* four cemeteries, one Protestant, one Hebrew, and two Catholic.BURLINGTON bank depots according to the last bank statements published, reach nearly $10,000,000.BURLINGTON has a better and purer city water system than any town in the state, and makes better wate* rates.BURLINGTON manufactures snd sells more lumber than any point on the Mississippi rivet between Lacrosse and St. Ixtuis.BURLINGTON has bad less bud ness failures in the past ten year*. than any town of its size in the western country.BURLINGTON can offer more desirable facilities and inducements for the establishment of legitimate factories than any town in Iowa.BURLINGTON has two telephone companies which hold the rate at the minimum price.BURLINGTON has seven railroads BURLINGTON wagons, baskets, butand being located on .he river its traf- tor.s, wheels, desks, furniture, roachln-flc in this direction 1* considerable. ] ery, brooms, flour, beer, caney, sleiyh Three packet lines have stations in bells and overalls are known all ovei this clfy. the country.BURLINGTON’S last census show j BURLINGTON’S suburb West Bur-that eighty-five per cent of the house- j lington. located Ihree miles west, is holders in this city, own the property: the ?*cene of the immense engine and in w’hteh they live The best guaran- car shops of the entire Burlington tee of a law and order city in theworld./BURLINGTON offers great inducements to politicians and office-seekers. It is hard to get a local man to ran for office, business.road, where fifteen hundred men are employed.BURLINGTON vicinity has better hlmtlng and fishing grounds, and catches more game fish and game They are doing better in! birds than any locality on the Missis-| sippi river.vacation timeBy Byron Williams.EURLtNGTON manufactures sn*i sells more furniture every year than ! any three towns in the state. \BURLINGTON has thirty-eight churches and some of the most beau tiful edifices in the wesLBURLINGTON parks number seven. #nd Crapo park is one of the most beautiful natural parks In the world.BURLINGTON ha* ninety saloonsand the revenue from this source! alone amounts to fifty-four thousand ] dollars a y^arBURLINGTON has the most eligible society attractions. Any honest man with a clean shirt Is invited to all our social functions.BURLINGTON ha* fifty miles of water mains, thrc^hundred hydrants and eight fire department stations located Throughout the city.BURLINGTON has (he largestwholesale grocery house and the largest wholesale drug house in the statu of Iowa.BURLINGTON has more choice rest-denee property, with magnificent scen-jerv and river views, at cheaper prices j than any town in the worldBURLINGTON haw a $100,000 poor ; farm and asyl\im and if one Is unable to take advantage of the many op- j j portunities offered one may find relief j there. No one barred.BURLINGTON is the most moral ' and orderly town in Iowa. No arbitrary measures are enforced, but the 1 town ts clean and wholesome. It has been years since a serious felony has ; been committed within Its borders.BURLINGTON schools are recog nlzed as the models of the state of Iowa, not only in beauty and extent, but in results. In all great contentsIts pupils1 have beeu awarded the prizes.A Sad Case.
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Burlington Evening Gazette
Burlington, Iowa, US
Sat, Jan 26, 1907
Page 12
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