The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-08
A CHRISTMAS EDITION
THE ADVERTISER WILL ISSUE
 SUPERB HOLIDAY NUMBER
Christmas Stories, Colored Comic Supplement, Illustrations, Con- tributions by Well Known Peo- pie Combine to Make the
 Edition Great.

Next Sunday The Advertiser will issue
 its Christmas edition.
 In this edition there will be g or more
 pages of intensely interesting holiday
 reading and it will undoubtedly be the
 most attractive and entertaining newspa-
 per printed in Alabama during the year of 1901
 This statement Is based on the num-
 Der and character of the contributions
 which have been secured for the Christ mas columns after an exhaustive search through the Journalistic field. A glance at the list of good things which the readers of The Advertiser will find in this su- perb holiday issue will convince anyone of the accuracy of the statement. Governor William D. Jelks will be a contributor. He is a trained writer and
 will have something interesting to say. State Historian Thomas M. Owen, one of the most forecful writers of Alabama,
 will tell of the Seals of Alabama" in copyrighted story.
 Adjutant General William W. Brandon | will write on military subjects. Chief of Police Adolph Gerald will nar- rate stories of thrilling human interest | dealing with the characters of the crim- | inal world.
 Associate Judge w. 1T. Thomas will contribute an article. "The Best Gift of AIT Is the title of a splendid illustrated Christmas story by Howard Fielding for the Christmas Ad- vertiser.
 Kate Clyde will contribute a superb letter to the fashion page which will be illustrated with fine half-tone pictures. Bruce Kennedy, one of the best writ CTS in the State, will have story in the holiday number.
 There will be a full page, illustrated,
 for boys and girls of Alabama A solid page will be devoted to careful ly selected illustrated Christmas stories
 by we'll known authors.
 The pages throughout will be bright ened with an assortment of humorous and artistic drawings. Alfred B. Tozer will contribute a Christmas story entitled, Will Lawson Luck" This story carries illustrations. Miit Saul, well known Southern writer. will have a story in this issue.
 Maxie Pepperman, well known to the
 readers of The Advertiser. will entertain
 holiday readers with a short story. Other contributors will enhance the
 quality of the Christmas number with their work.
 In addition to all this there will be
 A four-page colored supplement, fairly bristling with the products of the best comic and artistic pens or America III this supplmenet there is laugh with every line
 The issue will contain the holiday an- nouncement of all the representative mer- chants of Montgomery-a veritable guide to Christmas shoppers. In passing is might be well to state that this issue of The Advertiser will go, not only into the lS0Oo or more regular subscribers homes. but 1t will reach | thousands of other homes, the plans nav ing been already made for the delivery of several thousand extra copies to se-
 lected addresses within radius Of lOl
 miles of Montgomery. It has been con
 servatively estimated that five people
 read every copy of a newspaper printed l ITnon this estimate it Is safe to say that
 over 75,OOO readers will peruse the pages
 of the Christmas Advertiser.
 Advertising space in this number is be-
 ing rapidly absorbed by business institu' tions and only a limited quantity of space l remains.