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The Minneapolis Journat
Tuesday, 16 April 1901

         
         SILAS NEWCOMB IS DEAD
         
         "Do You Take the Journal?"
         
         Thousands of Minneapolis People Have Heard
          the Old Solicitor Ask That Question.
          
         The death of SILAS NEWCOMB occurred at 10 o'clock
       Sunday night at his home 3036 Pleasant avenue. MR.
       NEWCOMB had turned his seventy-eighth year and had
       been ailing for several months. Death resulted from
       kidney trouble.
         No man was better known to Minneapolis people than
       MR. NEWCOMB. He came to this city in 1881 from Fari-
       bault, where for years he held the position of deputy
       county auditor. With the exception of one year he has
       been in the employ of the subscription department of
       The Journal since his arrival in the city. "He was
       "on the road" for a few years, but the best part of
       the past eighteen years he has been employed in this
       city. His was a familiar figure and his query, "Do 
       you take The Journal?" has been answered by thousands
       of Minneapolis people. On the street car going home
       at night MR. NEWCOMB, with a bundle of Journals, was
       wont to accost his fellow passengers with:
         "Will there be a Journal on your doorstep when you
       get home?"
         The occasional man who said "No" was always given
       some kindly advice about taking a first-class news-
       paper and presented with a copy of The Journal. His
       quaint way of soliciting business made an impression
       and his earnestness usually got the subscription.
         MR. NEWCOMB was born in Darien Center, N.Y. He went
       to California in 1850, while the gold fever was on,
       and later put in some time in Oregon. He returned
       east and located at Milton, Wis., in 1857, where he
       obtained a position as instructor in an academy.
       Later he located in Faribault, residing there about
       twenty-one years. He was one of the most successful
       newspaper solicitors that the northwest has seen,
       and he has friends in nearly every section. A wife,
       son and daughter survive him. The daughter is Miss
       MARY NEWCOMB, in the employ of the postoffice depart-
       ment at Toledo, Ohio. The funeral will take place
       to-morrow at 2:30 p.m.
       
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