SOUTH OMAHA'S LIVE STOCEC. MARE
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i Is Nebraska's Greatest Commercial Instifatioini
I World's second largest hog and sheep market and third largest cattle market.
I South Omaha offers a good, competitive demand for all classes of live
stock.
. $ -Prices being just about equal at two or more accessible live stock markets,
it is decidedly to the shipper's advantage to sell at his NEAREST BIG MARKET.
If you are a Nebraska shipper, and not a patron of the South
Omaha Market, stop "Chasing Rainbows'' and help boost the big
market which makes Nebraska famous in the realm of commerce
SOUTH OMAHA
THE BUILDING OF A GREA T METROPLITAN CITY
But wouldn't it be great fun now if
we could bring Saxe back from the
other world, land him down in Omaha,
say about Sixteenth and Farnara, and
watch the expressions of his face !
We've been doing some great things
in Nebraska of late years, and one of
the greatest things we've done for
we've all had a hand. in it was the
building of one of the biggest, best and
most enterprising cities of the United
States and we call it Omaha. When
Saxe wrote his satire it was a frontier
town, little more than a village. Now
it is a great city, with a quarter of a
million people living within a twenty
minutes ride of her postoffice, doing a
wholesale business of more than $133,
000,000 a year, manufacturing more
than $200,000,000 worth of products,
It hasn't been so very many year
ago that the charmingly humorous poet,
John G. Saxe, wrote a little bit of verse
about Omaha. It wasn't at all natter
ing to the Nebraska metropolis, for
Omaha was then, as now, the metropo
lis of Nebraska. But it was so true
when written that it made Omahans
flinch.
'clearing more than $850,000,000
through her banks and transferring
real .estate to the value of more than
$15,000,000. A city that does big things
like that is to be accounted among the
live, prosperous and progressive muni
cipalities of this republic.
There is a reason for all of this won
derful progress on the part of Omaha.
It didn't come about by chance. It is
the result of intelligent effort, of a civic
spirit, of an industry that can not be
repressed, and of a community of ef
fort that subordinates selfish interests
to the best interests of the whole. Om
ahans have a splendid habit of "getting
together" when the time comes to do
things for Omaha. There is not a city
in the eountry that has more of that
spirit. Nor do the citizens who are
malting a greater Omaha confine them
selves to Omaha. They long since re-'
ali.ed that Omaha can only grow and
HOW OMAHA IS SETTING A PACE THAT IS MAKING HER
FAMOUS A CIVIC SPIRIT THAT CONQUERS OPPOSITION
prosper as Nebraska grows and pros
pers. That's why you'll find in the
Omaha of today that splendid senti
ment of "boosting for Nebraska" that
is rapidly wiping out ancent and un
founded prejudices.
Take for instance the recent "seed
corn propaganda" instigated by the
Omaha Commercial club. Of course
Omaha will profit by reason of that
campaign. And of course it was enlight
ened self interest that impelled the busi
ness men of Omaha to get behind that
campaign. Why shouldn't they? A
poor corn crop would injure Omaha as
well as the state at large. And con
versely, a big corn crop would benefit
Omaha while benefitting the state.
Hence that glorious campaign. There
were those narrowminded men who de
cried the intent and purpose of that
campaign, and spoke derogatory of the
men behind it. But Will Maupin's
Weekly, who knows its Nebraska as
well as anybody, believes that the
"good seed corn campaign" inaugurat
ed by the Omaha Commercial club and
carried to such a successful conclusion,
was one of the biggest and best things
that ever was pulled off in a state ac
customed to big and successful things.
One on a time some inspired poet
wrote something like this :
"To our virtues ever kind,
To our faults a little blind."
Omaha isn't perfect by any means.
But she has so much of good to talk
about that we haven't time to criticise,
even if we were so minded. But she's
getting better all the time. She's grow
ing so fast she finds difficulty in keep
ing her clothes a perfect fit, and she
now and then feels the pangs of those
"growing pains," but just the same
she is becoming one of the great busi
ness centers of the republic, and an
honor to the state she graces. As a
matter of fact, she has more of the good
things that cities ought to have, and
fewer of the bad things that most cities
seemingly find it impossible to get rid
of, than any other city of size in Amer
ica. Her business men, always alert,
find time to devote to public works
that are of personal benefit only so far
as they benefit the individual by bene
fitting the whole community. She is
building big 18-story buildings, and im
mense warehouses and big manufactur
ing concerns, but she is also building
hospitals and schools and playgrounds.
She is reaching out everywhere for
business and making a hemisphere trib
utary to her, but she is also building
parks and churches and homes for the
unfortunate. The man who can show
that he's got something worth while
can land in Omaha and with less trou
ble than in almost any other city enlist
capital for its manufacture. And at
the same time an appeal for the poor
and unfortunate will find a readier re
sponse from those same city builders
than almost anywhere else in the world.
O, yes, they're making a city out of
Omaha, but they are making it vastly
more than a mere business center. They
are making it a city of homes, a city of
happiness, a city of prosperous men
and women who are building today for
a better and a greater tomorrow.
Not only are they making everything
from axle grease to automobiles, from
angel food to zweibach, in Omaha, but
they are making men and women. It
is a city of opportunities, because it
offers every chance to men of intelli
gencefi of honesty and of industry. The
men who are really building a Greater
Omaha have come to the front to repre
sent Omaha, instead of delving away
and allowing a lot of "professionals" to
do the talking for the city. That ac
counts for the better knowledge of Om
aha that is spreading itself abroad.
Omaha is doing big things these days.
It builds an 18-story sky-scraper and
and takes it as a matter of course. Out
of the smoke of its many factory chim
neys we see emerge in a single year
two hundred million dollars' worth of
manufactured product, and Omahans
are so busy preparing to increase it
that they really haven't time to boast
about it. Her wholesale houses are rep
resented throughout the west by a corps
of traveling men whose numbers are
greater than the troops General Win
field Scott commanded when he
whipped Mexico to a frazzle. Omaha's
"dinner bucket brigade" is bigger than
the army Grant commanded at Fort
Donalson. She has more miles of paved
streets today than all the cities west of
the Missouri river combined had thirty
years ago. She is the biggest butter
market in the world.
We could reel off statistics by the
hour showing that when it comes to
doing things worthwhile, and making
things we just got to have, Omaha is
setting the pace for all the cities of the
west. But what's the use? As Dan'l
Webster said of Massachuhetts, so we
say of Omaha: "There she stands."
No, we'll change that a bit and say,
"There she is." For Omaha isn't
standing she is going ahead by leaps
and bounds. -
Omaha is not only the great clearing
house of Nebraska, but she is the clear
ing house of the great northwest. Her
packed meats re carrying the names
of Omaha and Nebraska to the utter
most parts of the earth. The trade
mark "Made in Omaha" will in a
mighty short time pry the label "Made
in Germany" off the map.
The "Omaha spirit" is getting into
the blood. It is becoming mighty easy
to spot an Omaha man, no matter what
part of the world you may be in for
youH find 'em everywhere. You can
spot him by his air of business, by his
hustle, by his actions and you'll not
be long in his presence before youH
hear from his lips remarks to the ef
fect that Omaha has got 'em all backed
off the boards for business growth and
' enterprise.
Let us be frank enough to admit that
time was, and not so very long ago,
when the feeling towards Omaha was
not of the best on the part of Nebras
kans outside of that metropolis. But
whoever was to blame for that is a
dead one now. Omaha has outgrown
those things that some of us resented.
She's learned that she can not get along
without Nebraska, and. Nebraskans
have learned how much better off they
are with Omaha. So we rejoice at
what Omaha is doing, and well back
up the statement that all the great and
glorious things she has done in the last
decade won't be a marker to the great
and glorious things she is' going to do
in the next decade great and glori
ous things that will mean as much to
Nebraska and the west as they mean to
Omahans themselves.
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The Woodman Accident Insurance,
company is one of Lincoln's most suc
cessful business institutions, and with
out exception one of (he greatest acci
dent insurance companies in the coun
try. It is receiving the undivided at
tention of men who understand the
accident insurance business, and it is
selling protection at a lower rate than
any other company of the kind in
the republic. Its growth has been
little short of phenomenal, and its
record for promptness in paying
claims has attracted favorable atten
tion everywhere. Will Maupin's
Weekly knows the record of this
company, knows the men who have
its affairs in charge, and it is willing
to go the limit in recommending com-.
pany and management to seekers .
after protection against accident and
injury.
