The Indiana State sentinel., 1891-04-22
A DAILY MIRACLE.
The Work of Getting Out a Great Daily
Newspaper.


m0usly and added immensely TO the COM
forts and conveniences of life. But we
know OF no commodity which has been so
greatly cheapened in price as the daily
newspaper. Its quality has at the same
time peen improved to an extent that is
hardly conceivable by those who are too
young to know what the daily newspaper
OF thirty or forty years ago was. All things
considered, the daily newspaper is the
cheapest article in the market today.
Take THE DAILY SENTINEL for instance.
All daily newspapers are cheap in one
sense, but THE SENTINEL is cheaper
than any other eight-page morning news
paper in the country. 1t is furnished (six
days in the week. to regular subscribers at
10 cents a week. This is but II cents
copy. The indianapolis Journal costs 25
cents week or + Is cents copy. The
Enquirer and Commercial Gdzette of Cincin-
natl are the same price the st. Louis Re-
public and the Louisville COurier-JO,rndl,
20 cents week the GlObe-DemOcrdt of st.
Louis, Is cents the Chicago morning pa
pers l2to l5cents. THE SENTINEL is cheaper
than any other first-class morning news
paper in Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Louis
vile, Chicago or st. Louis, and it covers
the field of legitimate news as completely
as any OF them. Besides this. it makes a
speciality of Indiana news and politics,
which none of these higher priced jour
mails do. THE SENTINEL's special Indiana
service is so far ahead of that of any other
newspaper published in or out of the state
that there is really no comparison to be
made. THE SENTINEL has over one hun
dred special correspondents in In
diana, covering every county in the
state, who send it. mainly by wire,
reports of al events OF interest
occurring in their respective localitiC s.
Every fire, crime, casualty. death. mar
riage or other social event occurring IN
Indiana that is worthy of note is reported
in these columns on the morning after it
transpires. Political move ments and de-
velopments, the proceedings of religi Gus,
literary, fraternal and other bodies, Judicial
decisions of special interest, etc, ETC., are
all promptly and fully reported. In fact
nothing happens in Indiana of interest to
any considerable number of persons,
whether OF a political, religious, social,
fraterna, sporting, criminal, educational,
legal or personal nature of which the read
ers OF this paper are not Immediately ad-
vised. The SENTINEL presents every
morning an accurate photograph of lite
in Indiana for the preceding twenty-four
hours.
The daily issue of THE SENTINEL never
contains less than forty-eght columns; it
frequently consists of fifty-six columns; !;
upon special occasions 1t is still larger
About 10 per cent. of its space is, on the
average devoted TO news and miscellane-
Gus matter, the remainder TO "live" adver-
tisements, which are always worth read
ing because they always contain infOrma-
ton that is valuable. An ordinary issue
contains thirty-fve to forty columns of
pure reading matter" and the variety is
almost endless. The city and suburbs are
very thoroughly covered. The govern
mental affairs Of the state, city, township,
county and suburbs are closely followed !;
the decisions of the supreme and appel
late courts fully reported; the proceedings
of all the local courts faithfully recorded !;
the proceedings OF all conventions, meet
ings and assemblages of every character
completely covered; the movements of
trade, business, society and politics ac-
cura;ely reflected; and the multitude of
events that go TO make up the daily life
of bustling and populous community
the deaths, marriages, suicides, crimes,
casualties, the coming and going OF people
of note-are all chronIcled in these teem-
ing columns. The prices of all Important
only in
but in all the great markets OF the world
are quoted every morning; there is com
plete record OF real estate trans
fers, OF building permits, of
births, marriages and deaths for the
preceding twenty-four hours transactions
in real estate, improvements of every char
acter, public enterprises of all kinds, re-
ceive adequate attention. Two or three
columns daily are devoted to the great
railroad interest. There are half dozen
or more regular departments, each in
charge of a competent specialist, and all
are conducted with intelligence and en-
terprise.
Every night the telegraph brings to THE
SENTINEL Office anywhere from 10000 to
10000 words of Associated Press and
special dispatches from all over the world.
These dispatches are carefully edited"
supertluous matter eliminated. mat
ter of no particular interest to
THE SENTINEL's constituents condensed
a column sometimes reduced to a
paragraph, or half a column to a line
and the whole classified and arranged
in such way as to make it a. interesting,
attractive and ineligible as possible TO
the reader. Every country on the globe,
great ami small, is represented in these
columns from day to day. The proceed
ings ofcongresses, parliaments, legislatures
and other lawmaking bodies are printed;
the movements of crowned heads and OF
the "uncrowned kings" of law, finance,
science, commerce, literature and all the
other departments OF human activity
are recited; the march of public
events in every state and every
nation is followed; new inventions,
new discoveries, new books, new
plays and pictures and statues are
heralded; scarcely anything that is of in
terest to any appreciable element of the
public, from polemics to puGilism, from
an assault and battery to a great inter-
national complication, is overlooked.
In the editorial columns every public
question-political, economic, social, re-
ligious, or what you willis discussed.
The selections mirror the tendencies of
popular thought with Photographic
fidelity. Entertainment, as well as In
struction, is to be found on
every page. In the literary columns
all new publications OF interest are