St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-06-18
THE FREE PRESS TIMES. DAILY.
THE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS. WEEKLY.

The FREE PRESS Will soon he celebrating it,
Semi, -utrnia Ii is by far the oldest largest and
most widely circulated paper i'll the wide region OF
Vermont and tn" Lake Champain Valley. from
which il chiefly draws its readers. In the f"rtg-
right years OF its history II has the birth and
the death of tw" ar three daily papers, four week
lies and three T.. four bi-wcckly and monthly
papers in Burlington alone. While these and
scores of other Vermont papers have had a com
plrativrIy brief and uncertain existence and have
passed ont of sight and perhaps ont of rrcc"llec
ti"n. the FREE i'REss has steadily grown in cir
cuLrt"n. r,s"urcrs and IN every element of news
paper strength Within the Recollection and
p,rirnct. q" its present editor. its entire establish
mrnt occupied no larger space than a single floor
ct the present enlarged Free Press building. 1t
occupies pre- floors and finds its quarters
To" large for its accommodation. Its income and ont
lay for the benefit of its readers have increased in
like proportion.
The FREE Press attributes the measure of sue
cess it has thus attained largely to its standing
a live, sound and reliable Journal devoted To the
interests of any set clique sect but of the
public; a paper which strives to build up and not
to pull down which desires To sustain every good
interest i'll the community and to promote purity,
honesty. and fidelity to Justice and to right in
all public affairs. While striving to maintain
this character, as a truthful and candid expo
nent and guide of public opinion, its conduct
recognize fully the public demand that
the newspaper shall be prompt record of events
"a newspaper first of all. They therefore
stantly extending and improving their facilities for
the prompt collection of the news of this region
and of all Vermont.
Our daily is the only paper north of Rutland that
gives the
Full Dispatches of the Associated Press,
and the daily record news of the world is supple
mented by special dispatches and fresh and fire.
quent correspondence from points of special inter
est As our enterprise in this regard will be limit
ed only by our means We may properly. for their
own interest. bespeak the assistance of our con
slant readers in extending the circulation and re
sources of paper. The FREE PRESS. both daily
and weekly goes postdgc free to all subscribers and
is thus cheaper than it has been at any time in ten
years past. Our daily is $500 year and our
weekly $500. always i'll advance.
To Advertisers.
The Daily Free Press and Times mOrnnp and
evening edtions). and the Weekly Free Press offer
absolutely the cheapest and best medium of adv-r
Using in this region. Our several editions have
a large and growing circulation, not only in this
its largest and best counties together with
a numerous and increasing body of readers along
the lines of the Central Vermont, Lamoille Valley
and Ogd-nsburg Railroads and ON both shores of
Lake Champlain. If our prices of advertising are
higher than those of some of contemporaries
they relatively, i'll proportion to circulation,
which alone gives value to advertising space much
lower In way can the same amount of money be
made to accomplish much in the way of adver
tising, in the region have indicated as by pur
chasing space in our columns.
job Printing.
The Job Printing Department of our establish.
ment is supplied with steam presses new and
tasteful fonts of type, and every facility for the
prompt execution of every kind of printing in
fashionable styles and at lowest living prices Or
ders by mail executed carefully and as cheaply
as il given in person. If