Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-05-07
THE WCkERY AND HILL COMPANY.
publishers Of "vicker's Fireside Visitor"
HAPPY Hours" Good Stories" and
Hearth and Home. "...They Have a Guar.
anteed Circulation Of 10000 Papers
a Month.

Rapid progress has been made by
augusta IN the newspaper world. and
TO-DAY II Is one of the greatest publish
ing centers i'll America. The publish
ing mouse of the Vickery & Hill COM
pany OF Augusta. is today one of the
pest known establishments in the coun-
try. Vickery's Firesde Visitor. Hearth
and Home, Happy Hours and Good
stores are the most widely circulated
papers in the world. having a guar
anteed circulation of 100000 copies
monthly. Although the design was Ia
circulate these publications almost ey-
ciusively in the country, so great is
their literary merit, chat subscribers
have been secured in city and country.
and in every land where the English
language is spoken. They are in every
respect first-class. and each has stories
written by the best authors in Europe
ana America, and illustrated by the
best artists on both continents, so that
every copy is valuable to the reader,
VINO besides enjoying them himself.
sends them around the neighborhood
tfor such is the usual custom in the
country and small towns where reading
matter is not SO common as in larger
places) and as a consequence every
copy Is read by whole families. so that
their guaranteed circulation gives Vol,
no idea of the number of readers Be-
sides having interesting fiction, these
publications have departments devoted
to fashion, women's work. fancy work.
cooking, the farm, the home. poetry.
art. humorous and juvenile reading.
and pVprVfhinU nj nj IN,
eral reader. Every copy of these publ
cations is sent through the mail to
some individual address The pub
fishing house of the Vickery & Hill
company is one of the best equipped
establishments of the kind in the world.
1t IS model of completeness in every
department. Every piece of machinery
that brains or inventive genius could
suggest. or money buy. to facilitate
business is possessed. One of the most
important improvements of recent date
made by the company is the addition
of new Scott Webb perfecting press.
which they had built especially for
them. 1t is really triple press, as it
prints from three rolls, turning out a
"a page paper cut, pasted, folded and
with colored cover, at a rate of Is. 900
copies an hour This is as conspicuous
and astonishing a result of cumulative
energy and enterprise of the century as
any achieved by steam. or electricity,
or other fairy tales of science" Not
withstanding all the most expensive
and rapid labor saving machinery
possessed, the company give steady
employment to over 125 employees. The
company maintain offices in New
York. Nos. 401. 402 and 40S Temple
Court and Chicago in the Boyce build
ing. Messrs. +. o. Vickery and John
F. Hill who stand at the head of and
conduct this meritorious establishment
are progressive and enterprising men
in the broadcast sense the term implies
Men like Messrs. Vickery and Hill Who
widen the avenues of commerce and
are well versed in principles as we'll as
practice of political economy benefit
not only themselves merely, but the
whole community of which they are
members