Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-13
Progress of Sunday JOalr,aalissss.
TPhiladelphia Tines.1

The Sunday edition of the Times has
steadily increased its readers until it now
has larger circle of bona fde subscribers
and purchasers than any other Sunday news
paper ever attained in Philadelphia. It was
started in the face of many and stubborn
prejudices created by the more disreputable
portion of our Sunday weeklies; but the few
months it has been published have been
sufficient to prove that first-class family
paper, containing the fullest and freshest
criticisms and original contributions on all
current topics of interest from the
ablest writer's of the country, will
receive the generous support of the people
of Philadelphia. Our Sunday edition of
yesterday equaled any newspaper in the con-
tinent in the freshness and character of its
contents. With staff writer's at the great
political centres; with the most experienced
correspondents at all points where important
news IS to be gathered /; with society and
fashion articles and letters from thoroughly
competent women contributors with an in
finite variety of choice original and selected
articles for the family circle with special
kilograms by the column from trained and
reliable journalists, and with nothing in
reading or advertising columns that could Of
fend the most fastidious taste, the Sunday
edition of the Times has we'll deserved the
liberal favor with which it has been received.
The period has arrived when journalism
in Philadelphia must keep abreast with the
best journalism of the country. If Phila-
delphia shall remain provincial in many of
her ways, her reputable newspapers must
advance from the narrow lines they have SO
long accepted. In New York, Boston, Gin
cinnati, Chicago, st. Louis, San Francisco,
and in the leading cities of the South, the
Sunday editions of the prominent daily
newspapers are the most literally patron
lied of all their issues, and it will become so
in Philadelphia whenever her journalism
entirely fulils its mission. All of the New
York papers of national fame, except
ing the Tribune, publish Sunday editions,
and they surpass their regular daily issues
! alike in all the qualities of great news
paper and in circulation and advertising; and
J in all the progressive cities of the Union,
the Sunday editions of the daily newspapers
best reflect the energy and thrift of COM
MERGE, trade and industry. The New York
Herald of yesterday issued quintuple
sheet containing over seventy columns of
: advertisements, and numbering 3,447 separ
ate business notices; and it's issue of the week
, previous was also a quintuple sheet with
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verbally slow to depart from the customs of
the past, and advertises most literally on
\ Wednesdays and Saturdays, mainly be-
cause it was SO done forty years ago when
those days were market days but she will
not ever lag behind all the other cities in
demanding and appreciating the Sunday is
Q sue of the influential morning newspapers
. and it is the duty of the press to lead the
f way in advancement. Every day adds tx
. the intelligence as we'll as to the numbers o.
= our vast population, and there is no countr,
5 in the world in which the newspaper 81
0 largely educates all glasses of the people
8 Journalism must, therefore, accept It's dutie
: and responsibilities, and the supply Of
4 wholesome, entertaining and INSTRUCTIVE
reading on Sunday is only next in impor
, lance to the pulpit in elevating and improv
ing the masses of the community.