The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-10
MIDNIGHT EDITION MEETING APPROVAL
 ALL OVER ALABAMA Thousands of People Outside of City Have e-Herald at
 Breakfast Table
FARMERS ON ROUTES
 GET TT BEFORE NOON
Is Regarded as Most Complete Early Edition Ever Issued
 in the South

As the sun stealing up from the east, bathing the hills and the valleys of Ala bama with golden warmth and sparkling beauty, so goes the early edition of The Age-Herald carrying its message os optimism and its stories of information to its eager readers in all parts of the state.
 It is on the breakfast table for the peo- pie of Talladega. Anniston, Athens, Deca- tur, Montgomery, even Nashville, Tenn, and it has been read by hundreds of prosperous farmers out on remote rural free delivery routes in all parts of the state before noon.
 And this edition of The Age Herald is a complete newspaper. It carries all the news of Birmingham, the state of Ala bama and the world up to midnight or within a. few minutes before the press starts
 The Late Edition
 A later edition, leaving the press be- tween and o'clock in the morning. contains some additional news matter from foreign countries or state and local matters that happen after midnight, but the difference between the two editions is not material. There is no difference in number of pages and general make up
 The only news that the reader of the early edition misses Is those things that occasionally happen after midnight.
 The early edition of The Age-Herald Wa Ia venient schedules on some of the rail- roads leading out of Birmingham and also by reason of the almost perfect equip- ment and organization of the new pub fishing plant of The Age-Herald.
 It is the general opinion of those who early edition Is the best and most com- plete midnight edition of any morning newspaper ever published in the south It Is meeting with expressions of favor everywhere.
 Best Early Edition
 The following from the Limestone Dem- ocrat of Athens is a fair sample of what people who know are saying about it:
 "The Birmingham Age-Herald now reaches Athens on the new northbound train and gives the latest news up to midnight. It is decidedly the best early mail edition gotten out by any southern newspaper and the people of Athens will doubtless show their appreciation of Tho Age Heralds enterprise.
 Tn addition to being a first-class news paper, The Age-Herald Is an Alabama newspaper and for that reason will ap- peal to Athenians."
 In Athens at 3s27 O'Clock
 The Age-Herald reaches Athens at S:27 o'clock in the morning and is delivered in the homes of the subscribers at daylight. and. mind you, with all the news of the previous "A hours up to midnight.
 This paper leaves the press in The Age Herald building in Birmingham a few minutes before 12 o'clock and but a few minutes after. the latest item of news has passed hot through the nimble hands of the editors. About 10 men handle 1t in about as many minutes and 1t is In black ink on a completed paper and is whizzed off to the train already standing under the shed in The Age-Herald's big new automobile delivery wagon.
 The ink is hardly dry when the paper is deposited in huge bundles on the floor of the mail car.
 A Complete Newspaper
 A complete newspaper delivered on the express train at midnight is the product of perfect organization in all the depart ments of the plant and the best of mod ern equipment.
 Going south the regular edition of The the Louisville and Nashville railroad at 3:55 and is distributed over all of south Alabama before noon. It is in Montgom- cry about o'clock and from there is distributed to all roads leading south. east and west. This is an innovation for the people of south Alabama, who hereto fore have not. been able to read their favorite newspaper from the south's in dustrial metropolis until after it was sev- eral hours old.
 Their liberal response Is an indication of their hearty appreciation.
 In North Alabama
 The Age-Herald goes all over north Ala bama before daylight. It is ready for its readers in the towns and villages on all most all the railroads for breakfast. It catches rural delivery carriers and is dis tributed over large areas to prosperous farmers and interior humlets before noon. It goes into Nashville. Tenn, at 2 clock and Is on the doorstep of it's read CTS there before majority of them are up.
 The Age-Herald reaches Anntston at 2:s7 o'clock in the morning and is in Att lanta, Ga. at s:So. with all the news up to midnight
 In Adjoining States
 The Age-Herald arrives in Rome, Ga. at s:1s and at all intervening points at most convenient hours in the early morn ing.
 Heretofore the paper has not been able to reach Florence, Tuscumbia and Shef- field and the towns east of Decatur on the Southern railroad on regular sched- ule. Now these places have The Age Herald every day and Sunday before noon without fail.
 There is not corner of the state that is not good Age-Herald territory and it's domain is reaching far into other states. The early edition Is turning the trick.
 And the early edition Is giving satisfac- ton because 1t is a complete newspaper. thing that could not be accomplished in publishing plant less complete than