The Coconino weekly sun., 1891-12-03
FACT AND FICTION,
How They Are Blended in the Make-Up of Great
 Papers.
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 People may we'll be called "lucky" when they discover gold mine, or when they detect 2;30 gait in a twenty-dollar colt, but duck men, toned in connection with journals like The Chicago Saturday Blade and The Chicago Ledger simply means work and the intelligent exercise of broad understanding of what people want to read.
 All the great weekly journals of the day can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Indeed, aside from The Chicago Ledger and The Chicago Saturday Blade, it is very doubtful if three great weekly papers can befound in the country having 100000 circu- lation weekly.
 These papers are great because they represent the age in which we live, and because there are no two states in the nnion which have as many voters as these papers have readers. Just figure this out, and see how many different people must be pleased in order to accomplish this result. This is not
 ''luck"-it is genius. The Chicago Saturday Blade alone has 225, ,000 cir  culation weekly.
 The Chicago Saturday Blade is q newspaper and a literary paper com bined. Those features of the weeks news which stand out prominently above the great mass of matter col iected by newsgatherers, are always printed in full and elaborately illus trated.
 There is not line in the Saturday Blade that is not readable. There is not dull line in it. It is paper to read in the office, the store, on the train, or at the evening fireside. Its illustrations cost more every week than the entire expenses of its alleged rivals. The illustrations are always the very best from an artistic point of view. and really constitute pie torial history of the times.
 The Chicago Ledger is most cm- phatically the leading family paper of the counsry. Among the world-famed writers who contribute to its columns may be mentioned Ella Wheeler Will cox, Stanley Waterloo, William Wal lace Cook, Sara B. Rose, Arthur C. Grissom, Wm. B, Chisholm, Wm. Il. $. Atkinson, R. L. Ketchum, RobertY. Toombs, Elliott Flower, Leroy Arm strong, Austyn Granville, Emma Howard Wight, and scores of others.
 The Ledger stories are not inc old class serials with just so many dcsper- ate deeds to every ounce of ink. They deal with the life we see around Us. Many of its serial stories are written expressly for the Ledger, and deal with leading social and economic problems. Fiction is generally ad- mitted to be one of the leading agents of modern progress. The Ledger writers are now telling from week fo week of the lives and trials of the op- pressed of all closes. But the stories are bright, well-written and intensely interesting, notwithstanding the fact that they are tingcd with the events, ambitions and privations of today.
 No impure thought or expressions finds its way into the columns of the Ledger. It is a paper for the home. ''Ths Home" and Youths depart ments are prominent features 'anu the department of fashie~ iS superior to any other prin--a. There are items ab.ut ,y,.:>ors, about odd happenings, ..,odt prominent people, and wise say ings and humorous paragraphs are plentifully scattered through its col ums. Each week the portrait of some distinguished author is given. and each week the ablest writers of the day con tribute to its colums bright, concise and instructive essays on current &opins No nne can affnrd to ieayer the Ledger out of the list of papers to be read in 1892. The Ledger has weekly circulation Of l25. .000 copies.
 Where the Blade and Ledger cannot be procured of newsdealers or special | agents, subscriptions may be sent di- 1 rectly to the publisher, w. D, Boyce, | He and 118 Dearborn St., Chicago, | Ills. The price of each is five cents per copy. or S2 year. They are the largest papers of their class printed | for the price in the world, Ton should | not fail to send for sample copies which | are always mailed free upon applica- tion.
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