The information was sent to the editor of HaMelitz by correspondents and agents who were appointed in each town. It should be borne in mind that these agents wrote the original information by hand and mailed it to the newspaper. The names were then set in type. There were often errors and mistakes, some of which were occasionally corrected in later issues. The same name is sometimes found spelt in two different ways in one group of announcements sent in by a single collector.
Dates are also sometimes difficult.
The agent would wait until he had several announcements to hand in, and the newspaper printed them as space was available. Thus a list of donors on the evening of Yom Kippur might be printed six months later. For the day that our brother was appointed agent in Kursenai for the Society for Settlement in the Land of Israel, we gave 18 kopeks for the good of the workers in the Holy Land. Feige Ita and Boruch Eliezer Teren. For the day that my father was chosen to be an aide to the government rabbi in Kursenai, I gave 25 kopeks for the good of the workers in the Holy Land.