The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-07-10
MODERN EQUIPMENT

In order to furnish the public the
news of the action of the Democratic
convention at st Louf> yesterday
4 morning it was necessary to publish
| an extra issue of The Bulletin which
was on the street soon after the de-
| tails of the ballot nominating Judge
| Parker We're received. As is stated
elsewhere the candidate was not de-
| clared the nominee of the party until
/ nearly O'Clock and as The Bulletin
/ goes to press to catch its mail trains
at 1870 il was impossible To publish
the news of the nomination TN the
regular edition.
As soon as the result of the ballot
was known The Bulletin wired its
st. Louis correspondent for the infor-
nation in detail which was promptly
forthcoming and at once given to the
public in the form of an extra A half
dozen newsboys were employed under
the supervision of the circulation man
ager and in addition TO covering the
business portion of the town every
train entering the city or departing
therefrom between the hours of TO- so
and $3.50 O'Clock and the two steamers
ut the wharf were met. Strangers
en- route through the city who had
looked fer the announcement in vain
in ST. Louis and Chicago papers eager.
ly read The Bulletin and a number
called at the office in the afternoon
for information regarding the selsc-
ton of nominee for vice president
There are seven noon and afternoon
trains out of Cairo. The Bulletin
went out on all but one Of them yes
tarday in the hands OF new agents
as the only newspaper containing the
one item of news of the day in which
every one was interested One hun
dred papers went into Missouri alone
on the 8 o'clock trains of the Iron
Mountain and Cotton Belt and in ad
ditiDp to being sold on every train
each one of the forty agents of the
company in neighboring towns re
ceived an extra supply of the special !
edition In all over 1000 copies were
distributed in town and out
Such feat in the time il was &C
would have been an i'm !
pc sibiity in Cairo one year ago.
II is only possible at this time |
owing to the mechanical equipment /
of The Bulletin office The type was
set on a linotype in less than fifteen /
minutes. the big perfecting press |
printed. pasted and folded the edition
n 1000 in exactly thirty-five minutes. /
Ncwsboys were shouting Extra" on /
Levee street half an hour after the I
advices reached The Bul /
letin office. and within Dmething less
than one hour from that time the on
tire edition was off the press and al 4
1880 o'clock close to LOCO ccbics hal /
been wrapped, addressed AMI deliv. /
cred to the posiofiice.
There is much more in this than the I
mere accomplishment itself for il /
means 90 the people Of Cairo that the /
CHIN of The Bulletin that the city I
contained metropolitan new paper /
Is well founded and that newspaper I
readers may rely upon The Bulletin 4
to furnish the news when IL Is I
new and without reference TO the 4
difficulties In the case. Il means that /
may have their advertise /
mcnts presented 10 The public o. this I
ana forty other towns in this vicini
ty al time ami in manner that 4
can be obtained through no other me I
dunn and presented in a way that com
mands attention. II means not only .
volume for the advertiser but quality. /
the latter Of which IS quite - impOr
tant a. the former. and IL means both 1
in an increasing degree all the time
The Bulletin believes II has accom-
pli he1 something when 10 offer
this kind 81 new paper and the clsrs
Of an advertising medium within Jess
han one years time Of its incorpora
ton.