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E.J. Casey Shows Poster King Show Prints and Enterprise Show Prints1920
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Changing SceneOne year after the purchase of The Rouleau Enterprise, the expanding business activity of the town through increased urban and rural population put a strain on the mechanical resources of the printing plant. ... A second-hand Cottrell drum cylinder press was installed, also a folding machine and a large gasoline stationary engine. A little later, it became quite evident that the hand-setting of type for news and advertising was no longer economical, so a well-used typesetting machine was purchased. (Excerpt from Paper, Pen and Ink by Andrew King, Pg 59)
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E.J. Casey Shows Drawing King Show Prints and Enterprise Show Prints1920
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There was nothing unusual about the growth of The Enterprise at that time. The same progress was being duplicated many times over by weekly newspapers in most small and growing towns on the prairies. Business came to these offices without solicitation. The number of pages of most weekly issues were increased, and maybe page sizes were increased also. (Excerpt from Paper, Pen and Ink by Andrew King, Pg 67-68)5
E.J. Casey Shows Poster King Show Prints and Enterprise Show Prints (one folded portion only)1920
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Subscription lists grew in size as new farmers arrived. The Enterprise began to print weekly newspapers for three other towns without any special canvassing or solicitation. (Excerpt from Paper, Pen and Ink by Andrew King, Pg 67-68)7
E.J. Casey Shows Poster King Show Prints and Enterprise Show Prints1920
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The pressure of reporting, editing and management, plus a shift in the plant to assist in getting forms ready to meet deadlines made it evident that the owner of a small business could not do all the work and supervision required of him in an eight-hour day or a five-day week. (Excerpt from Paper, Pen and Ink by Andrew King, Pg 67-68)9
Estevan Fair Sign King Show Prints and Enterprise Show Prints1920
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Estevan Fair Poster Farmer and Ribbon King Show Prints and Enterprise Show Prints1920
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Rodeo Woodblock in red King Show Prints and Enterprise Show Prints1920
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Good LuckOwners of country printing offices produced weekly newspapers and also some commercial printing.
The only excepts to this have been in the larger towns with more central locations. As these latter towns grew larger through drawing business from a wider area, the smaller towns became still smaller.
Thus every printing plant and newspaper owner in these smaller towns, who observed this business trend, could only realize that his future was becoming less and less secure.
The small town printer was not in a position to enter into a specialized business of his own for the range of products was already well covered by well established companies with enormous investments in buildings, plants and a corps of trained salesmen - something which he could not duplicate.
In this connection it was only through a chance encounter I became aware of the immense possibilities in a specialized line of printing which otherwise I would never have dreamed of producing. In fact it was a type of work that the owner of any small country newspaper plant would have shied away from. But it became the backbone of my commercial printing department. (Excerpt from Paper, Pen and Ink by Andrew King, Pg 67-68)
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Estevan Fair Poster It's Your Fair So Be There! King Show Prints and Enterprise Show Prints1920
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To The Fair Woodblock in Red King Show Prints and Enterprise Show Prints1920
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