Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1887 — Newspapers in the Country. [ARTICLE]

Newspapers in the Country.

Geo. P. Powell & Co., of New York, in the nineteenth annual edition of their standard publication, the “American Newspaper Directory,” say: the new volume contains an exhaustive list of all Class Publications, so admirably arranged that a y one of the three thousand papers represented there can be readily referred to and ad important facts concerning it, together with its circulation rating, e isrly obt lined. The “Newspaper Directory” will be used principally by publishers, advertisers and advertising agents, but the vast fund of information it contains makes it valuable to persons of almost every trade and profession. As a gazetteer alone it is well worth the price charged, $5, for it fully describes e.ery town in which a newspaper is issued, and few people care to know about any place where one is not. The number of papers published in the United States, Territories (including Alaska) and Canada is put at 15,420; an increase of 581 in one year. The growtu of newspapers in some of the Western States would be a matter of wonder if it were not that this year is no exception to the rule. In Kansas the increase is 89 and ih Nebraska 64, while the Keystone State shows a smaller advance of 35, and the Buckeye State of 30. Pennsylvania exhibits the largest increase in dailies, 17; Kansas in weeklies, 81; and New York in monthlies, 42. Seven Sta.es show a decrease, the most prominent instances being New Hampshire and Virginia, six each. The whole volume shows that great care has been taken to sustain its reputation as the most comprehensive work of the kind yet published, and to insure accuracy in every detail. Anything less than a complete compendium of American newspapers and periodicals would surprise those who are familiar with the former efforts of this firm, who are so well known jib the oldest, largest, and best known of all the American advertising agencies.