The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-25
Growth of Circulation.

| 1902 $3.50 1854 %
| 1893 :. :. :. 8,2Ol 8
| 1904 9,nl0
| The average circulation for the first
eleven months this year has been
| 9,040, but the growth this fall has
been so great that the present daily
circulation exceeds $500.
During the past thirty days The
News and Observers subscribers have
paid their subscriptions SO rapidly
that it has more than taxed the force
in the office to mark up the boks.
This substantial proof of appreciation
of the paper has made the manage
its subscribers for the kind express
sions with which they have accom-
panied their remittances. In the face
of seven cent cotton? The News and
Observers cash receipts have largely
exceeded those of the fall of 1908 when
cotton was bringing god porices. This
is the best test of the papers growing
power and popularity.
Below we print few extracts from
letters written by subscribers who
were sending checks for their sub
scription
A subscriber at Holly Springs writes:
II trust that the News and Observer.
with you at the helm, will continue the
fight for Democracy, good government,
temperance, etc, as you have in
the past. until the victory will be ours
both in State and Nation"
A Waco subscriber writes: II want
you to know that / have the highest
sense of appreciation for the unfalt-
ering stand you take for things
democratic"
A subscriber at Gulf says: MAY
your contempt in the future be as be-
coming as in the past. May you sue
ceed.'
A subscriber at ROIesville. Wake
county, writes: ALLOW me to con-
graduate you for the noble work done
in our late campaign for our great
victory. We owe great deal of 1t to
News and Observer together with the
able standard bearers, who campaign
ed the State.
I "A Manly subscriber writes: you
have done more towards furtherinG
temperance and, morality than any
agency | know. Long may you live. >
Eminent physicians in Durham
write: Enclosed please find check.
We are glad to contribute this
amount to you and wish you and your
very deserving paper long life and
usefulness.
A subscriber at WintervilIe. Pitt
county, writes: Il am glad that we
have a State organ that not only
stands for our political rights but may
commend it still more for the great
and manly fight for temperance which
did so much for the temperance vic
tory now in this State. | am still
hoping for great things through the
News and Observer and may you re-
main strong for temperance cause and
continue to fight to victory "
A subscriber at Fayetteville writes:
You have done a fine years work.
pra- that God may speak to you
and bid you BE strong and fear not
the face of any man. in the fight for
truth and righteousness"
A subscriber at Cambridge. Mass.
writes: IF we had a few papers like
the News and Observer in this section.
believe that Democracy would grow
into favor where it is now in disrepute.
and the balm of victory would assuage
the sting of defeat"
A subscriber at FarmviIIe. writes:
Il enclose check to pay my subscrip-
see how l could get along without it. =
subscriber at Shelby writes: May
the editor of the News and Observer
live to fight all it's battles to victory in
all its fullness."
Haywood county subscriber writes:
1T is a pleasure to read a paper daily
edited by one who has moral courage
to stand for the right. though prison
walls stare him in the face. With the
hope that you may live long to do SER
vice to your State
subscriber at Providence, Il. T..
writes: please find enclosed check;
and l will say that / greatly appre-
ciate the paper that has done most
for North Carolina"
"A subscriber at Albemarle says:
your Democratic doctrine is the right
stuff"
subscriber at North WiIkeSboro
writes: 81 subscribed at first because
of vour liberal treatment of the A. ~
M. affairs while | was a student there.
now l couldn't do without it on many
other grounds
A Northern born subscriber at Pine
bluff writes: II still believe your
paper breaches the purest Jeffersonian
Democracy of any newspaper Wlthin
my Knowledge
a subscriber at EIon College writes:
"AlioW me to congratulate YOU upon
your recent strong fight for the cause
of Democracy and to present my best
wishes for your future prosperity"
A minister at MurfreesbOrO writes:
"Your paper means much for the
moral uplift of North Carolina and
on that account | want to encourage
it,
A subscriber at Charlotte writes:
"There is not any question i'll my
mind but what your paper is the best
printed in the State
A Chapel Hill subscriber writes: 81
wish to express my very best wishes