PHILADELPHIA. Pennsylvania Digital Newspaper Project,Phase I, Population Historical Context

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1 Pennsylvania Digital Newspaper Project,Phase I, Population Historical Context Philadelphia County 846,980 1,046,964 1,293,697 1,549,008 1,823,779 1,823,779 PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia₁ 846,980 1,046,964 1,293,697 1,549,008 1,823,779 1,823,779 Numbers correspond to Circulation₂ Ranking Form Title Frequency Editorial Bias Times Morning Ind./Dem. 32,500 80,000 70,000 2 Press Morning Rep./Ind.Rep. 18,449 52,806 66,000 86,556 3 Record morn.ex.sun. Ind./Ind.Dem. 72, , , , , ,288 4 North American morn.ex.sun. Rep./Ind.Rep./Prgrssv 3,000 45,000 77, , , ,741 5 Inquirer morn.ex.sun. Rep. 10,000 62, , , , ,176 6 Public Ledger* morn.ex.sun. Ind. 85,000 80,000 70,000 60, , ,288 7 Evening Public Ledger evg.ex.sun. ex Ind Evening Telegraph evg.ex.sun. Rep. 12,000 15,000 91, ,181 9 Evening Bulletin evg.ex.sun. Rep./Ind.Rep. 7,500 12, , , , , Evening News/Daily News evg.ex.sun. Rep. 7, Evening Times evg.ex.sun. Ind. 78, Evening Item evg.ex.sun. Ind./Rep. 180, , , Chronicle Herald/Evening Herald evg.ex.sun. Dem. 8,000 10, Evening Star evg.ex.sun. Ind. 14,000 16, Call evg.ex.sun. Ind. 57,543 1 County Seat 2 Circulation: blank cells indicate title not published; 0 in cell indicates circulation not reported / = Change in title, frequency, or bias * Paper of Record Source: Ayer, N. H., & Son (1881, 1891, 1901, 1911, 1921). American Newspaper Annual and Directory. Philadelphia: N. W. Ayer & Son

2 Cell: B7 Comment: Times merged with Public Ledger in Cell: D7 Comment: Times Frank McLaughlin editor: A. K. McClure Cell: B8 Comment: Press merged with Public Ledger in Cell: D8 Comment: Press publishers: John W. Forney John Wien Press Co. editor: Charles Emory Smith Cell: E8 Comment: Press "The Press is the most complete and the best newspaper published in Philadelphia. The public have been quick to appreciate the recent rapid improvements and the progressive course of the Press, and its books show an increase in its circulation of more than sixty per cent in the past twelve months" Cell: B9 Comment: Record merged with Evening Bulletin in Cell: D9 Comment: Record W. M. Singerly Cell: E9 Comment: Record "The Record is independent under all circumstances, and has a world wide reputation as the inveterate foe of injustice and fraud. Its aims to give the greatest good to the largest number, and as a consequence, reaches the homes of the thrifty, intelligent classes, and is a regular visitor to the counting room on account of its reliabliity in commercial reports. It has no superior as an advertising medium, sending out daily nearly seventy thousand copies a larger circulation than that of any other newspaper published in Philadelphia. Those advertisers who are sceptical, are unhesitatingly referred to any of the regular

3 patrons of the Record as to its merits as an advertising medium." Cell: F9 Comment: Record "Why not buy your advertising as you buy the merchandise in which you deal? You buy your corn, wheat, flour, pork, dry goods, etc.,etc,. Only after the closest inspection, yet price, quality and quantity should enter into the question of your advertising as seriously as they do into that of merchadise. The Philadelphia Record asks you to buy advertising space in its columns with your eyes wide open. It invites the most careful examination of the truthfulness of the following statement as to quanitity and quality, leaving you to figure out the actual cost per line for each thousand copies, and its cheapness compared with other first class mediums." Cell: B10 Comment: North American merged with Public Ledger in At the time, was oldest daily newspaper in America Cell: D10 Comment: North American editors: E. A. Van Valkenburg (1923) Clayton McMichael Cell: F10 Comment: North American "The oldest daily in America. Philadelphia's popular penny paper, more than 100,000 readers each day." Cell: B11 Comment: Inquirer, founded in 1829, is the third oldest surviving daily newspaper in the U. S. (wikipedia 8/18/2007). Cell: D11 Comment: Inquirer The Inquirer Company; James Elverson, President Cell: F11 Comment: Inquirer Ayer's 1891 ad:

4 "The Inquirer has a circulation greater by many thousands than that of any other Republican Newspaper published in Philadelphia or Pennsylvania." The Leading Newspaper of Pennsylvania. In March, 1889, CIRCULATION 5,000. IN OCTOBER, 1891, CIRCULATION 65,000 Cell: B12 Comment: Public Ledger "We consider the Public Ledger the premier paper in Philadelphia and it is always the first paper we consult when people ask questions about either genealogy or historical things." (Lee Arnold, Director of Library & Collections, Historical Society of PA, 12/2/2008) "Between 1880 and 1922 the Public Ledger was huge, and was probably the 'paper of record' for Philadelphia and perhaps much of the state as well, but its owner ultimately bought the Inquirer, which displaced it." (Barbara Pilvin, Free Library of Philadelphia, 10/14/2008). Public Ledger morning and Sunday editions were merged with Inquirer in Cell: D12 Comment: Public Ledger editors: George Oakes Randolph Marshall George W. Childs Cell: B13 Comment: Evening Public Ledger launched in 1914 as an evening edition of the Public Ledger. After the morning and Sunday editions of the Public Ledger were merged into the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1934, the Evening Public Ledger continued an independent life. In 1941, the paper was sold to Robert Cresswell, formerly of the New York Herald Tribune. Mounting debts brought on a court ordered liquidation, and the paper ceased publication in January, (wikipedia 11/8/2008) Cell: D13 Comment: Evening Public Ledger Public Ledger Co. Cell: J13 Comment: Evening Public Ledger evening edition circulation reported with morning edition. Cell: B14 Comment: Evening Telegraph merged with Evening Public Ledger in Cell: D14 Comment: Evening Telegraph J. Barclay Harding Charles E. Warburton

5 Cell: F14 Comment: Evening Telegraph "The Evening Telegraph, from the time of its establishment, has been continually in the receipt of telegraphic news from the Associated Press, and has thus been enabled to lay before its readers all the news from every quarter of the world at the earliest possible moment. This service is supplemented by special dispatches and correspondence from all the leading news centers. Special attention is also given to general literature, and to art, musical and dramatic criticism, etc." Cell: D15 Comment: Bulletin William L. McLean Gibson Peacock, Fetherstone & Co. Cell: E15 Comment: Evening Bulletin "Oldest and best afternoon paper in Pennsylvania: containing Associated Press news from all parts of the world, special correspondence from at home and abroad, choice current literature, dramatic and musical criticisms, financial and commercial reports, able and fearless editorials, miscellaneous news, etc." Cell: F15 Comment: Evening Bulletin Ayer's 1891 ad: "THE OLDEST AND BEST EVENING NEWSPAPER IN PENNSYLVANIA. CONTAINING ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. Special correspondence from home and abroad. Financial and commercial market reports. Choice current literature. Dramatic and musical criticisms. Miscellaneous news, etc. Able and fearless editorials." Cell: D16 Comment: Evening News/Daily News publishers: Edwin H. Nevin, Jr. News Publishing Co. editor: Rufus Rood Cell: E16 Comment: Evening News "A first class afternoon newspaper. Carefully edited in every department. The only two cent evening paper in Philadelphia that publishes full telegraphic news. The Evening News gives special attention to reliable news. To music and the drama, to literary and art matters, to fashion and personal news, to college and educational news, to all political and social questions, to financial and commercial news. To full and reliable telegraphic news, to foreign and

6 domestic correspondence, to carefully selected miscellaneous matter, to careful, accurate and bright local reports and articles, to everything that in fact goes to make a first class newspaper. The Evening News is sold regularly by all newsdealers in Philadelphia and its vicinity at two cents a copy, and is served regularly by carriers for twelve cents a week." Cell: F16 Comment: News Ayer's 1891 ad: "Philadelphia's Brightest and Best Afternoon Newspaper. You see it everywhere." "A DAILY NEWS advertisement always pays a large return on the investment." Cell: D17 Comment: Evening Times Frank A. Munsey Cell: D18 Comment: Evening Item Harrington Fitzgerald Cell: F18 Comment: Evening Item "AN UNRIVALED BUSINESS RECORD. Magnificent success of the only paper in Philadelphia owning and running WHOLESALE RAPID DELIVERY WAGONS (thirty three in number), and the only newspaper in the world owning five of R. Hoe & Co.'s MAMMOTH 'QUADRUPLE' PRESSES,each guaranteed to print, fold, past, count and deliver over one hundred thousand (100,000) perfect copies of the Item every hour. We are determined to push the circulation of the Item, when aided by additional press capacity and greater distribution facilities (a new structure will accommodate SIXTY HORSES and SEVENTY FIVE WAGONS), before the close of 1892, to a point close to 300,000 copies EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR." Cell: D19 Comment: Chronicle Herald/Evening Herald Dennis F. Dealy Herald Co. Cell: E19 Comment: Chronicle Herald "Price two cents. One of the best known of Philadelphia newspapers. The only daily Democratic newspaper in the city. Has a Masonic department.

7 Circulation not exceeded by any two or three cent evening paper in Philadelphia." Cell: B20 Comment: Evening Star published three editions daily. Cell: D20 Comment: Evening Star C. E. School & John Blakely Cell: D21 Comment: Call R. S. Davis Cell: F21 Comment: Call "The largest afternoon circulation in Philadelphia. A large eight page newspaper at ONE CENT A COPY containing all the latest telegraphic and local news. THE CHEAPEST NEWSPAPER in the WORLD. The call prints more telegraphic and local matter than any other afternoon paper in Philadelphia, besides devoting a portion of its columns to the Household, Cooking and Fashions. Assists more people who are in need of HELP and Situations, through its Want Columns, than any other afternoon paper, making a Special Rate for this class of Advertisments. Publishes editions EVERY HOUR, from 12 o'clock noon, until 4:30 o'clock P.M., thus enabling it to gather ALL THE LATEST NEWS OF THE DAY. All the Leading advertisers in Philadelphia use its columns daily."