Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-07-06
....,.ties Of American journalism.

~ y powell & Co, propneVoIs Oh tne AMc,
I no Advertising Agency, of New York
cs s4. contains certain tables OF STATISTICS
CiEy, have been compiled with care, and
Will LIED upon as substantially correct
csn - - cover field of research which no
lns:s ,.;c;an has before touched upon, and
as.s ;sS food for reflection and wonder
fufl. The following are few Of the
EEL asnr facts which study OF these tables
Fes wa'a who,e number Of periodicals issued
-! !ha United States is 1888, with % to be
y ,s IN for the Territories, and 353 are
so .N.ad in the Dominion of Canada, and
pli wv The British Colonies. making grand
y of & 43S. of which 637 are daily, 118
y aneekly. 1919 semi-weekly, 4,642 week
u 81 bi.weekly, 100 semi-monthly, 715
N.,blv. ia bi monthly, and 81 are issued
Har.ery. New York has the largest
e.her If publications, 894, of which 371
lsa unrinted in New York City, and Nevada
y. ptbe smallest number issued in any
sssaaS,e-only Is. Nevada has more daily
s.an weekly papers, and is unique in this
.nact every other State having from
ss,ee to twelve times as many weeklies as
i.es Tri-weekly papers are more COM
W. in the South than semiweeklies,
rS;le in the Northern States the facts are
reversed.
The largest number of daily papers pub
mod in any State is 80, in New York.
parnsvlvania is second, with 81. Next
i. . Illinois. with 80, and California has
h. being the fourth on the list Delaware
and Florida have each ! daily paper
Kansas has as many as Vermont, west
Virginia, Mississippi and Arkansas com
hined Nebraska and Nevada have each
more dailies than either Oregon, Rhode
Tsland. South Carolina, Vermont, West
Virginia, Arkansas, Delaware. Florida,
Maine or Mississippi.
of the 10 publications issued regularly
in TIE Territories IL are daily and 90
weekly, 8 tri weekly, A semi weekly, APP
pears monthly, semi monthly, and l BIZ
weekly.
arpest circulation, averaging TAIL each
sane Massachusetts, is second, with 5,709
verage: then comes the District of Co
umbia, with 1923 Nevada has the small
ri average circulation, only SIG, while
florida averages 616, Arkansas $50, Texas
n and Mississippi 1853. The average
,irculation of all daily papers published is
M. of the weeklies 1893, and of the
monthlies 4,0S1. The average edition Of
n the papers printed is ,S42, which, null
iplied by 6,43S, the entire number of pub
Icsfpns, gives II ,85S 1916 as the number
of copies in which an advertisement would
appear if inserted once in all. The same
advertisement, if continued one year,
would be printed the enormous number OF
I 400, 922, 219 times The total number of
publications. printed in an entire year in
North Carolina will supply only four cop
les to each inhahitant, equivalent to one
mper to every soul once in three months
Mississippi, Florida and Arkansas do but
little better, furnishing five copies per
year. Alabama, Minnesota, South Caro-
Ina, Texas and West Virginia all print
less than enough to give each inhabitant
a paper once in five weeks, while Califor
nia gives 80 copies per year, exceeding
every other State except New York, which
prints 113 copies per year for every soul
within its borders. AS New York papers
circulate everywhere, while those OF Cali
fornia do not 90 very much out OF the
State, it is evident that the papers issued
there have a better local support than in
any other State of the American Union.
IN the District of Columbia we find that
one newspaper is published for every three
square miles of territory. Massachusetts
has one to 80 square miles, and Rhode Is
land one to SO; then comes New York
with one to 81; Connecticut has one to
Co. New Jersey one to 63, Texas one to
234j, Florida one to 1888; while in the
Territories one newspaper spreads its cir
culation over no less than IA, 465 square
miles
There are 54S newspapers in the United
States which prints more than 5000 copies
each issue. andl1 which print more than
10000. The New York Weekly has the
the largest circulation given; among the
political mediums the New York Weekly
Tribune takes the lead and among the ag-
rcultural weeklies, Moores Rural Ntw
Yorker stands first. The New York hide
PENDENT is the largest paper and has the
largest circulation Of any religious paper.
Nearly 1000 papers are printed on the
auxiliary plan-that is, on sheets purchas-
ed.rom New York, Chicago and other
caters, with one side already printed.
mis- number has more than doubled with
n one year More than 1000 new news
papers have been established since the first
Of March, 1870, and the number Of new
ones announced since January LIST, 1871,
has averaged nearly four per day. The
number Of suspensions is about one fourth
a large as that of the new issues announc-
ed. Messrs. Geo. p. Rowell q Co, assert
that the number of newspapers issued has
/ fully doubled within six years.
In looking over the publications devoted
to specialties, Tor class publicationsD we
find the religious largely predominant over
any other class, which shows the interest
| the public press takes in the moral and
religious welfare of the country. There
are in the United States 2S3 publications
advocating evangelical and sectarian ideas,
with % in the Dominion Of Canada, with
none either in the territories or colonies.
OF this number New York City has A,
Philadelphia %, Boston Fl, while Florida,
Kansas, Nevada aad New Jersey are en-
tlrely unrepresented.
The farmers, horticulturists and stock
raisers have their interests represented by
an agricultural press numbering no less
than 100 publications, many of which are
gotten up at great expense, and are very
extensively circulated.
The medical profession enlightens its
members through the columns of ~ pub.
iications. of which are weeklies, so
monthlies, 3 semi -monthlies, 3 bi-month.
lies, and II .auarterlies.