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The paper was issued in six-column quarto form five weeks, and then 

 for want of financial support was suspended ; but every dollar of its indebt- 

 edness was paid. Next, after conference with friends of the cause, Dr. 

 Reid and wife decided to reduce the size, reduce its cost as much as possible, 

 and continue it themselves, purely as a missionary work. Accordingly, on 

 January 26, 1889, their first number was issued, in size of page that could 

 be printed on a job press — and the presswork was contributed by H. N. 

 Farey & Co., job printers, for more than a year, as their part in aid of the 

 good work. Mrs. Reid, although over sixty years old, did canvassing, col- 

 lecting, type-setting, folding, mailing — anything to help. Another woman 

 over sixty-six years old, who had never touched a type before, learned to 

 set type, and gave her time occasionally for several months to help get out 

 the paper. Two men who were carpenters by trade did the same thing. 

 Three different boys did the same thing. And six different practical 

 printers [type-setters], both men and women, sometimes lent a hand. The 

 Standard oi November 9, 1889, said : 



"Last Saturday Mrs. Reid was absent, and four ladies came and helped 

 us about our mailing-day work — pasting, folding and wrapping The Stand- 

 ard. Three of them were past sixty years old — and 'the old lady' being 

 away, we 'young folks ' just had a picnic." 



On August 24, 1889, in reply to a correspondent who wanted the paper 

 enlarged, the editor said : 



"The suggestion is very clever, but is not practicable. Small as The 

 Sta7idard is, we are issuing every week a better paper than the income pays 

 for. In fact, we could not issue it at all but for the mechanical help which 

 has been donated more or less every week thus far since about February i." 



An Anti-Saloon Republican city convention was held March 29, 1890, 

 to nominate candidates for the city ofl&ces. [For an account of this, see 

 Chapter 13.] Then arrangements were made to issue The Standard as a 

 daily during the campaign ; and the first number of its ' ' Daily Edition ' ' 

 bears date April 3, 1890 ; and eight numbers were issued, or until Saturday, 

 April 12, the election occurring on Monday, the 14th. The paper was 

 finally suspended, its debts all paid, and its printing outfit offered for sale, 

 on May 3, 1890, being Vol. Ill, No. 19. Among his closing statements the 

 editor said : 



"The recent change in the management and control of the Daily Star 

 makes the special work of The Standard no longer necessary. The new 

 City Trustees have given their pledge of honor not to permit any sort of 

 liquor saloon business within the city limits. The NEW Daily Star will 

 co-operate with them in this and every other good work that is right and 

 proper for the city's general welfare. * * We gladly retire to private 

 life again, feeling that OUR FLAG IS STILL THERE." 



All-Saints Record. — In February, 1889, Rev. G. A. Ottman, rector 

 of All-Saints Episcopal church, started a monthly paper in three-column 



