Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-08-10

=. ana served with great credit and then
harmed here and opened 9 job o.co
3s6 &. e6t 41Al.s e4s saGit
IBe}y papers was apparent to him am
he issued "Vickery's Ffreside VISITOR
In 1874. 1t was just what the public
was looking for and grew and pros-
pered with exceeding rapidity. Sew
eral other papers were established also
at different intervals, and now there
are five. the Visitor" Happy Hours. +"
Hearth and Home" Good Stories. -
and American Women" The agere-
gate monthly issue is 100000 COPIES.
and the price Of each Is only twenty
nve cents a year. The MAGAZINES
average twenty-eight or thirty-two
pages and are printed by huge perfect
ing presses that turn of 100. OOO
papers day from rolls, all ready
for mailing. The output aRRreRafes
eight tons a day and nearly all 20 as
second-class mail matter. The stamp
account runs about $lz5 a day on first,
third and fOurth-class matter, The
typesetting is done by Thorne ma
chlnes, and three Belknap Rapid Ad-
dressing machines run on the lists of
names on the slips In which the maya.
zines are wrapped. These three ma
chihes are rum by six operatives and
save ninety girls. They do wonderful
work. both In speed ana accuracy. The
Immense circulation Of these papers
makes them Of great value to adver.
users VINO appreciate mediums covering
the entire country and many foreign
countries. Offices are open In Chicago
ana New York for business of anv sort
connected with these papers. They are
IN class by themselves and the Au-
susta publishing houses have had
countless imitators but no equals II
mas Deen success, peculiar to itself
from the first. originating in the mind
VI y. Vlckery. whose aggressiveness
nas ied MIN on to heights he had never
dreamed of or dared hope to reach
ms attention has been closely confined
70 MS business but not exclusively for
ne Is broad-minded and many-sided
noerai' progressive. genial and upright
IN MS business. He has served in fhe
augusta city government, the Leeis.
nature and as mayor in 1902. Hia fel.
low citizens have every confidence In
him. In 1879. DR.. John F. Hill becam.
associated with him. being his son-in.
Jaw. as the Vickery & Hill Co.. ana IN
1873 the corporation was formed. The
present quarters were first occupied IN
1872 and frequent additions have heen
and large brick building.
.or 'ne offices and clerical DEPARTMENT.
Is oeing built now. FOXES and three
torres nigh. 1t will be completed this
ID" ana will give much needed room
"a the present building a. there are
90 employees. l20 being girls. chiefly
improved In the mailing rooms. The
Is at the corner OF Court !
mo chapel streets. DR.. Hill IL the Re. I
,uDhcan nominee for governor OF
aaine; we publish portrait and r
ketch on first page. George w. Wick n
~. general manager, Is a brother or 2
!. 0. Vickery. and has been Associated 4
nth him many years. Mr.. Hail q
has been In the nous. q
wenty-four years. and as superintends b
MT hve years. He has especial ove- y
lsht OF the mailing. and agency a.. r
srtments and inside work. He n : ie
ative Of Windsor. has been IN A. "
usta tnirty years and was clerk Of thu y
ommon council twelve years. M. M
nav mas been with the house since
~. the nrst employee, and has been
continuous service since; he has
large OF the premium department. q q