Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1885 — Interesting Newspaper Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Interesting Newspaper Statistics.

According to the last edition of Edwin Alden & Bra’s American Newspaper Catalogue there are in the United States and British Provinces a total of 16,105 newspapers and periodicals, of which 15,368 are published in the United States, and 737 in the British Provinces. They are divided as follows: Daiaes, 1,411, semi-weeklies, 188; tri-weeklies, 64; weeklies, 11,567; Sundays, 426; semi-monthlies, 356; monthlies, 2,010; bi-monthlif% 40; quarter-monthlies, 141. This shows an increase in the total number of papers in the United States and Canada since last year of 1,303. New York leads tne list with 284 new papers, Michigan follows with 183, Ohio with 122, Dakota , Territory with 88, and with 83, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and Utah alone show a falling off. In comparison with the population the increase is greatest in Florida, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Texas, and the Territories, particularly Dakota. All classes of newspapers and magazines are represented in this total increase of 1,303. In the large cities the number of new trade papers has been most marked, while in Dakota and the Northwest the number of new local papers is no* iiceabl'e. ,