Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1891-12-02
FACT AND FICTION.
Ho,o They Are Blended an the
Make Up of Great Papers.
Old, Slow Family Papers Not in
It-Pictures, News, Humor,
Fiction and Hard Work
Two Cases in Point.

| Ifthere is any one thing on earth into
IL Is the handling of gr. at newspaper.
People may we'll be called .lucky" when
they discover n gold mine. or when they de-
''luck" mentioned In connection with Jour
rals ike The cHIckoo SArUKDAY BLADE
work and the intelligent xercise OF q broad
understanding of what PEOPLE want TO read.
day may De soussed on Tie iioTeSs OF o. One =
hand. Indeed. aside from The Chicago Sat
urdsy Blade. ~ Is very Doubtful q three great
having 10000 circulation weekly.
These papers are great because they repre-
there are no two states In the union which
have AN many voters as these papers have
many different people must be pleased in or
der 10 sccomplish this result This IL not
BLADE alone has n 5000 circulation We SAS
The Chicago Saturday Blade IN newspa-
perand n literary paper combined. Those
prominently above the great mass of matter
collected by newsyatberers, are always PRINT
ed In full and deliberately IllustrateI.
There In not line In Saturday Blade that
Is not readable. There ~ not "A dull line In tt
the train, or st the evening hreside. It's Ill
ustration cost more every week than the
tire ex penses of its alleged rivals. Tbs Illus
trations are nj avs the very best from an ar
tiStic point of view, and really constitute
pictorial history of he times.
The Chicago Ledger IN most emphatically
| the leading family paper of the country.
Among the wori famed writers who Ontfi-
butte TO its columns may be mentioned Ella
Wallace Cook. sara b Rose, Arthur &. Girls
som, VIM Is. Chisholm, VIM. II. =. Atkinson,
h. L.. ketchun, Robert Y. Toombs, Elliot
Flower, Leroy Armsir onc, Austyn Granville,
Emma Howard Wright, and scores of others.
The Ledger stories are not the old class
serials with just so many desperate deeds To
every ounce of ink. They deal with tue life
we see around us. Many OF It's serial stories
deal with leading social and economic prob
sems. Fiction Is generally admitted To he
one OF the greatest agents OF modern pro-
gress. The Ledger writer's are now telling
| the oppressed of all Classes. But the stories
are bright, well-wriiten and intensely inter-
esting, withstar ding the ia that they
are tinged with the events, ambitions and
No Impure thought or expressions finds It's
way into the columns OF the Ledger. 1t Is %
paper for the home "The Home" and
"Youths" departments are prominent fea-
perior to any other printed. There are Items
about writer's, about odd happenings, about
prominent people, and wise sayings and
humorous paragraphs are plentifuliy scat
portrait of some distinguished author ts Civ
en-, and each week the abiest writer's OF the
day contribute To its columns bright, concise
and instructive essays on current topics. No
one can afford TO leave the Ledger out of the
list OF papers To be read In ,SS2. The Ledger
hasa weekly circulation OF 1885, coo copies.
where the bla. and Ledger cannot be
procured of newsdealers or special agents,
publisher, w. Boyce, lI6 and lis Dear born
ST., Chicago. Ills The price of each IN Ave
cents per copy, or 50 year. They are the
largest papers of their class printed for the
send for sample copies which are always
mailed free upon application.