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Title: "Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, Massachusetts.
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Copeland, Alfred Minott, 1830- ed
Subjects: Hampden County (Mass.) -- History Hampden County (Mass.) -- Biography
Publisher: Boston : Century Memorial Pub. Co
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries

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s issued a supplement, in bookform, giving a history of its own conception, trials, growth andtriumphs, and detailing the growth of the city and its interests,in the twenty-one years of the papers life, and taking to itself,with due modesty, a share of credit for the reforms that havebeen worked in the citys public affairs, in the two decades men-tioned. For a newspaper is always a tireless worker in the causesthat tend to the general good, and though often called upon tostand the rebuffs and ingi^atitude of opposers and doubters, has areward in the final triumph and vindication of its policy. THE HOMESTEAD The Springfield Ilomesfeacl, a weekly illustrated paper oflocal life, with suburban departments, fills the graphic needs ofjournalism in the county, as perhaps no other publication does.It is the outgrowth of the older-established New England Home-stead, an agricultural paper regularly published from the sameoffice. Both the Springfield edition, and its agricultural progen- ( 439 )
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Heniv M. Burt THE PRESS itor are ably edited, and enjoy large circulations and are influen-tial in their respective fields. The New England Homestead wasfounded in 1867 as a monthly, by Henry M. Burt, having beenstarted in Northampton, but soon after removed to Springfield.Mr. Burt continued the publication for some ten years, in themeantime engaging in other local journalistic ventures, when thepaper was bought by Messrs. Phelps and Sanderson, formeremployes of the Union, Mr. Sandersons interest being laterbought by Mr. Phelps, who established a corporation known asthe Phelps Publishing company. Fapm and Home, a sixteen-page monthly, was begun in 1880, by this company, and attaineda wide circulation, national in extent. Other powerful agricul-tural journals have been acquired by the Phelps Publishing com-pany, including the Orange Judd Farmer and American Agri-culturalist, which combined have an immense circulation, con-stituting a large portion of the output of mail matter from thel

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