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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1912)
the sake of his party and country,' but he wants it for the salary con nected with it, and will do his best to earn the aforesaid and the same, if elected. There is possibly not a man in the state, better acquainted with its resources, commercial conditions and needs. These qualities combined with real executive ability, frankness, honesty, a state wide acquaintance arid a strong personality, will make him a "live wire," in the campaign. The Truth Characteristic. Omaha Western Laborer (Lab.) "Will M. Maupin announced his candi dacy for railway commissioner of Ne braska on the democratic ticket in the last issue of AVill Maupin 's "Week ly. The annoucement is characteristic of the great Nebraska booster. Here's Another Booster. Harlan County Ranger (Ind.) : Will M. Maupin, editor of Maupin 's Weekly, has announced himself a can didate for railway commissioner. Mr. Maupin was deputy labor commission er under Governor Shallenberger and .while in" that '. position did much to advertise the possibilities of Nebraska along agricultural lines and in fact proved the best commissioner the state has ever had." ""In speaking of Mr. Maupin 's candidacy, Editor Ayres of the Holbrook Observer ex presses our sentiments when he says:, "If there is a man in the state who deserves recognition for the good he has done, and for his efforts in aid ing in the development and showing up the state's great resources through publicity, Mr. Maupin is one of them, and if he can land the nomination we will be only too glad to boost for him during the campaign." Clarence and I. Ilildreth Telescope (Ind.): AVill M. Maupin of Lincoln, editor of Maupin 's Weekly, has announced himself as a candidate for the democratic nomina tion for railway commissioner. Bill's letter, which occupies about a column, is certainly a breezy and interesting one. lie frankly admits that he wants the job because he needs the salary attachment and promises to do his level best to earn all the state pays for the work connected with it. Mau pin is one of the brainiest men in the democratic party in Nebraska. While it is none of our funeral, and at best think the nomination will prove nothing but an empty honor, if there is a democrat in Franklin coun ty who cannot, or will not, vote for Clarence Harmon, he will not go far wrong in voting for Will Maupin. The Plain Truth. Spalding Enterprise (Ind.) : Will M. Maupin of Lincoln is a candidate for the nomination for railway com missioner on the democratic ticket. Will is original in all things and his announcement is decidedly so. He does not tell the public a lot of rot about his political principles, and, like the Chinaman, shake hands with him self because he has been a staunch party man and of so much service to the public, but comes out with the truth and plain facts as his reasons for wanting the office. ' Thanks, Old Friend! Shaffer's Alma Record (Rep.) : Will M. Maupin, editor of Will Mau pin 's Weekly, at Lincoln, has filed as a candidate for the democratic nomi ation for railway commissioner. There is no other one man in the state who has done more to advertise and boost Nebraska than has Maupin and we know of no other man who is more deserving of recognition at -the hands of the people than the afore said AVill M. Maupin. Here's best wishes, Bill. FLOYD SEYBOLT. The candidacy of Floyd Seybolt for the democratic nomination for state treasurer ought to appeal to conserva tive men who want a man of experi ence and ability in that office. Mr. Seybolt has had a wide experience in the banking business an experience not limited to one locality, but ex tending over a wide territory and throwing him into contact with all phases thereof. The several banking institutions with which he has at dif ferent times been connected have all shown gratifying growth under his management, and in every community where he has engaged in business he has staunch friends and admirers. Mr. Seybolt 's, strongest supporters in his canvas are men with whom he has been engaged in business, and others for whom he has transacted business. He- possesses that experience and ability that is necessary to a success ful handling of the immense fiscal affairs of a great state. He is an energetic, virile, upstanding young man who possesses both . experience and ability. He has been engaged in the banking business for upwards of twenty years, and his record is as clean as a hound's tooth. With him as. democracy's candidate for the im portant office of state treasurer there'll be no "come back." He will add strength to the ticket. THE OLD LINE BANKERS LIFE. On April 6,. 1912, the Old Line Bank ers Life Insurance Company of Lin coln, Nebraska,. . will .celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary. The growth of this company is. unparalleled in the history of life insurance. Its rec ord is not approached by that of any .other life , insurance , company in this country. ; It does business at a less cost per thousand, returns its policy holders more and offers them a great er protection in proportion to pre miums paid than any other life insur ance company of record. So remark able is this concern's record that it has been made the object of investi gation by insurance experts and the subject of laudatory articles in insur ance journals. Twenty-five years old, and of the new nest, its assets now amount to five million dollars and not a dollar of it invested in stocks or bonds. It is all represented by farm mortgages, and not a dollar so invested in all the years of this com pany's history has been lost. The original investigator looking for a specimen of "safe and sane" in surance management should investi gate the history of the Old Line Bank ers Life Insurance Company of Lin coln, Nebraska. He'll find it there. The dollars of the policyholders are guarded with zealous care. Every de tail of expense, no matter how trivial it may seem, is losely scrutinized. There are no exorbitant salaries; no nepotism ; no favoritism. It is a busi ness machine, working with clocklike precision. Western life insurance com panies, old line and mutual, have come and gone, but the Old Line Bankers Life Insurance Company of Lincoln has continued to grow and prosper. Today it is as strong as the strongest. The Ne braskan who seeks safe life insurance and goes outside of Nebraska to get it, may get it all right, but he's los ing money because he is not only pay ing more for it, but is sending his money away to be invested elsewhere. That money should be kept at home and invested at home. Intending pur chasers of life insurance and every man ought to carry life insurance would render themselves a service by investigating the Old Line Bankers Life Insurance Company. The editor of AVill Maupin 's AVeekly carries a policy with this company,. and he has but two regrets one that he didn't get a bigger one when he was getting; the other that he didn't get it many years before he did. The new home building of this com pany at the corner of Fourteenth aid' N streets, Lincoln, is one of the hand somest office buildings in the west. A picture of this magnificent building appears in connection with this article. SPEAKING OF CORN. Nebraska is the fourth largest corn producing state, being excelled only by Missouri, Iowa and Illinois. Ne braska's 1910 crop of corn was great er than the combined corn crop of eighteen other states California, Ore gon, AVashington, Utah, Colorado, AVyoming, Montana, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Delaware, North Dakota, AVisconsin and New Jersey. Custer county, Ne braska, in 1910 produced more corn than any one of eighteen states, and equalled the combined corn crop of Utah, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, North Dakota, Montana and AVyoming. Enjoy Your Western Trip By traveling over the line that gives you the maximum of travel comforts and luxuries and that carries you to your destination on time and in a frame of mind compatable with the object of your journey. 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Prominently dis played upon the front of an O street building is the following sign: FOR RENT - ' APARTMENTS NO CHILDREN - That may be taken as a sign of metropolitan growth but it's an al mighty bad sign, just the same. AVe 're not wishing anybody any bad luck but we are just old-fashioned enough, and love children enough, to hope, way down in the bottom of our heart that the owner of that building will see it stand empty until such time as he is willing to allow the lit tle ones to romp and ljmgh and play in its halls and make the echoes ring with their gleeful shouts. AVe wouldn't give three whoops in Hali fax for the chances for immortality of the man who thinks more of a dollar than he does of the kiddies. The man who thinks more of a little white paint and unscarred walls than he does of happy children is the man we wouldn't trust as far as we could throw a bull by the tail. The land lord who refuses to rent rooms to a man and wife who have little children hasn't got enough heart in him to pump two blood corpuscles through four inches of artery. AVe could take the soul of such a landlord, blow it through a flea's feather into the eye of a gnat without making the gnat bat its eyelid. Not knocking any body, of .course, but if such landlords ever find their way to heaven and we become wise to the fact, we'Jl have our ticket changed, for we'd rather take chances in Hades with men who loved the little ones enough to give them a show for their white alley, than to commune in heaven through countless ages with the shrivelled souled shrimps who preferred dimes to dimpled cheeks and prized silence above the silvery sounds of laughing little ones. AVe don't know who put that sign up and we don't care a hang. AVe wouldn't trust him with a cake of ice in the refrigerating room of a cold storage plant. If he comes near us and we find it out, we'll pin our right-hand trousers pocket up with a gross of safety pins to keep him from swiping the pennies we're saving to give to the kiddies, and if we meet him on a dark street late at night we '11 holler for the cops and run like thunder. "No children!" The worst we can wish for a man who advertises apartments thusly is that when he "dies he'll be banished to a country where all he'll hear will be the woe ful wails of the childless, and where he'll hunger for a million years for one sound of childish laughter. A
