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Scan 3
Alton (Illinois) City Directory 1920, 1920
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1INTRODUCTORY
3The fourth edition of the Alton City Directory, under the present management, is herewith submitted, and the publishers feel confident that the information contained herein will be found as complete and accurate as it is possible to make a work of this character. We assure the public that nothing has been left undone on our part to make the book what it should be—a Directory that directs.
5Not only is the Directory a very necessary and indispensable work for local usage, but it is a valuable means of extending throughout the country information concerning Alton, its advantages, resources and prospects, and it is a matter of more than ordinary importance to every individual that he be properly represented in this standard work of reference.
7To gather the data and complete a volume of this character is no easy task. It requires much time, a well defined system, and incurs no little expense. Few people have any idea of the work it means and the tenacity it takes to publish a reliable Directory.
9In preparing this book the publishers have spared neither time nor expense, and if errors occur or a single name is omitted which should appear in the work, it is generally the fault of the public and not of the publishers, as every house is visited, and it is not the publisher's or canvasser's fault if some one fails to give all the information or gives it incorrectly. The intentions of the publishers are always for improvement, and you can always count on getting as accurate a Directory as circumstances will permit.
11This issue of the Directory contains 16,736 names, an increase of over 1,096 names over the last issue, which makes the population of Greater Alton, at a very conservative estimate, close to 32,000.
13We wish to thank our patrons who have made this book possible, and the people of the city for their courtesy in giving the information.
15LESHNICK DIRECTORY CO., Publishers.
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