Beckmann Bros. Nursery Closes down

After three generations of supplying local farmers and gardeners with all of their equipment for keeping that garden beautiful and the farm running smoothly, Beckmann Bros. Nursery is shutting down.
This article surrounded the history of one of the oldest businesses in the St. Louis area up to the reason why now, after three generations, the nursery is closing. This article was defiantly sympathetic toward the small business owner, Bruce N. Beckmann, and I believe that this article would best appeal to local small businesses in the St. Louis area. Along with appealing to local small business, I believe that many people in the St. Louis area, primarily gardeners and farmers who shopped at Beckmann Bros. Nursery. The St. Louis Post Dispatch probably wanted to have the article appeal to the majority of the people in the St. Louis area due to the fact that is where most of their business comes from.
Like many of the articles featured in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, this article is strongly sympathetic to the small business owners in the St. Louis area. I believe that this type of journalism is a necessity to be successful in a certain area. If you do not appeal to the majority of the people, then it is impossible to be successful.