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ia ted Bi until 3 p. bi., after which time business whatever of art the science ofadvertisiog
will be taken np in regular order nntil admits of could be introduced into our
Association, 5:35 p. m., when the convention will ad- public placards For it is not, as some
journ for supper. may imagine,' a matter of money fn
England it ia true when of recent years a
Friday, July nth
crusade against public advertiremenls of
Through the courtesy of Mess. Walker the kind we refer to has been in progress
L CADILL & Company, Bill Posters, we will be en-
certain distinguished academicians have
tertainedproperly. A notice of same
JULY 9, <•. II Mtf'n. sold certain of their works, and allowed
willbe posted in "Committee Room," them to be reproduced and posted on
when the meeting is called to order.
every vacant board. Bnt in France, as
Trusting that everyone interested di- in most things artistic, they arrange
rectly or indirectly in outdoor display
these matters better. H.. Jules Cheret,
advertising as a medium, may find it to
the most distinguished of Parisian affich-
their interest to meet with us. Business
iers, does not earn in a year, tbough heis .
of great importance to the association The energetic bill poster and distributer
incessantly at work, as much as was paid
of Findlay, Ohio, was born in Whitley,
for the single picture of 'Bubbles.'" It
Inform the President if you inteud Ind. December Jtb, 1847, and went to
is essential that art posters, if they are
Findlay, March i e th. 1883, in tbe employ
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being present, before July ist so that the lo be common should be producible at a
Hotel Cadillac may be officially notified moderate price And such as a matter of Of tbe Opera Hou = e After two years'
iled to attend the fifth
fact is the case in Paris The elaborate
of how many to cipect- connection with the same, be took tbe
a oflbeAasociated Bill gaily coljureu ajfuhcs whkJi cover the
Hotel Cadillac is one of the best hotels advice of Mr. Waller Fisher, and Estab-
a. of the United Slates windows of the boulevard kiosquesof the
in the United States. French capital are the work 01 men who lished a bill posting plant, fully deter-
it the Hotel Cad-
Rate* as follows in a very real sense of tbe word are mined lo carry tbe venture to a success-
illac, Detroit Michigan. Tuesday, July 9!h
artists, and yet they are far from expens- ful issue. That be has succeeded in his.
Wednesday, Jul; loth, Thursday, July
Inside rooms, i to a bed, (1.50 per d >y.
ive Indeed the ecoiiomy necessitated by
1 3 to a bed, f3 00 per a, it is h,
ml:, Friday, July 11th. the conditions and aim of the art-poster
It is expected that all members and
of its evolution. For instance, the fact
delegates will report promptly at 11
thai a separate stone had to be engraved
o'clock noon, Tuesday, Julyolh, at the for each co'our used fo- printing his a/- built up a
above named hotel. fichts obiged M. Cheret to limit the
number of bis colons. The' result is velous, <
The f
boarda, until, look when'
that he rarely naaa an* but tbe three .
board.
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entire city ia wall fenced In
as he calls Ihrin. These limitations,
The members and delegates will as- however do> not prevent the with over three thousand feet of boards.
semble Id the committee room. Hotel fhtl," as be is familiarly called, is
Cadillac, at which hour
the convention which _delight of the pi
Tacking ""d Ue
CarUnville, Ills., pop. 4,000.
Oanty seat ol Macoupin
~" ecu ill;, Lansing, Mich.
A. J. TUBNE" lerldian. Hiss. Pop. 15,000, A. Gary. KspgriiimTcnl F 1
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Rrie'epcss; Fln-tH. L. 1). Hoffler, city Hill rosier & Diurl Carthage, Mo. Pop. 10.000.
.lo-eph BHrmtl. DlatrlbuK r; sampler a:
Eighth. Cincinnati'
Chicago, Ills. J. A. Clonal),
AMERICAN FAIR BDLLETIN. Proo Press ShVw~ Printing Ci.^
^ ^
Booavtlle, K. Y. Win. Comstock, Newspaper Cuts for Fairs. Write Show Printing Co.,nS
prlngfleld, Ohio.
tM|||>11)j|| Show' Print,
Vletor^Janney Wanted— Fair Ground s Attraction s, Covin^on.^Ky.,^
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field of publicity, by
IT took a good many years for adver-
irm'tes space less valuable; for the more
tisers to learn that it paid better to hire
people that are shouting, "Come and the kind of brains that they didn't h
buy of me." the louder. the to look after the advertising end of their
shout to be heard above the crowd. business, rather than bnngle along with
This is why, with the Incraa sing recog- itthemselves. There are some even now
nition of its importance as a trade factor, »ho are struggling away at the business
gradually coming to realize tBat
advertising is so serious a problem to -day. failing to recognize the fact that the very
best work that pays best, and
This ia why newspapers can't do it all.
consequently willing to pay for *•* "P" 1 aOtTka is the k nd pa}'*
!
ThU is why display advertising is the want as good. h**t.-Profitabte Advertising.
lould be, ' Say." It is florid
friend and co laborer, not the rival of the
tone, gruesome in its awful fright fulni
newspaper It makes it easier to get
SOMB merchants sit down and criticise
hut altogether good- getting
Suppose a particularly fine job of pro- their competitors' methods ofdoing busi-
Anyproprietary article that seeks pob gram, menu or invitation printing is ness, only to see them get rich, and
u> principle, and. once the idea iucal-
licity to-day ignoring the value of dis- done, why not make that job the subject themselves get poorer. It is bad policy
play advertising and sticking to newspa-
yisDonnel-
;r be obliter-
of an ad in the local papers, describing for a merchant to say that "such and
pers alone, is as badly handicapped in its
ated.'—Art in Advertising. making such methods" would drive his trade
away, when it is slipping away for the
rare of life if he lacks o.ie offcU
He may get along without It, but it ia
Mm A talk ia told of Robert Bonner and
1 of tbe ialty is
want of just such progressive ideas. The
of his belief in adverlising. One day he
deuced inconvenient —OJ. Gude in Dis-
engaged a whole sheet of a newspaper
play Advertising, St. Louts.
and repeated a two-line advertisement.
s taction,
Jimmy Lannlgan Wins Bill Posting
propriated, and iuiod) other i
Contest by Slapping Up News Tri-
bune Stand In Mae Minutes.
fairs of the United States and Canada, Committed a grave, and we might say, II, later.— Jribunt, Du-
inexcusable breach of etiquette, inas- luik.
together with the dates thereof, the .
names of the societies under wbtse ans- much as the letter was not intended for
pices they are held, and the names of publication, and we bad not secured Mr. These is a hue and aery of substantial
the officers or each. It is worthy or note proportions in evidence at Wells ville, O..
that this Hat is the most complete cata- Now that Oscar Wilde has been rele over the ordinance recently passed by
logue 'at fairs thit hts ever bees pnb- gated to the oblivion be so richly meri- the conncil of that city, licensing a city
ted, it is to be hoped that those artists bill poster and distributer. Merchants
his protege, Anbrcy generally including the mayor, deem the
ispose of this billions, provisions much too strict
wholly inartistic style,
ubecribera who fail to receive
lanuikSMUMI regularly, will
the matter they will often
and will always be gratefully accepted formed of the merits ol the "While Owl
d published. It is the license is passed at the solicitation of cigar, and or the tonic which is sure to
t at Indianapolis, Tuesday, May tired feeling," as well as
the bill poster for the sole purpose of overcome "that
ic convention which was largely
securing to him a sinecure in the shape other ilia
of a monopoly of the business in the The work ol posting the bills, which is
called to order at the Grand
town in question. _ There is tome slight being done by the Breslaner Company, ia
<lr F. M Groves of Evausville,
progressing rapidly, and where two daya
color or truth in the charge, but barely
nd was also
enough to render it discernible, and com- ent Indiana
pated to the advantages reaped by the
that fall to the share of the
'Excelsior'
areas Paste
—aim,—
BE POSTERS' BRUSHES
The Rochester Bill Posting Co., THE ERIE BILL POSTING CO.
BUI Posters, Distributers and General Advertisers,
No, 10 North Park Row. ERIE. PA.
ADVEMISlNCi— can't we? And we can, with your aid. DENVER NEWS.
We have several propositions for mem-
Is me to knock off everything bership to he acted upon, and 1 hope to Denver, Col., May aS, 1S95.
else until I peruse every line, and aftir the boords with that, post i
so doing, I invariably say, "It's a daisy." blanks before the meeting. J, Ohio. would paper and then tack 11
And so it is. Now. I think that every Three states have organized since our be surprised how long his ps;
billposter should read it and become a last 1 ingand ast foradmi e tbat
subscriber at once, it being the official you sac. with all the accept- territory and it has give 1 wonderful Bat-
publication of the Associated Bill Posters' way, we are creeping at a very rapid rate ing no ads. from any irresponsible partie: very often lasts
Association of the United States and and are in shape to continue on. for distributing, on account of a number as high as four or five months on a place.
Canada, everything of interest to its One word about our New York office. of complaints. We think that you are John Coleman, the bill poster from
members should be found in its columns, For years we have been in the hands of taking a good stand on that; as surely
Leadvitle. is visiting us this month.
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rs of its officers the middle man, who has made capital distributing of samples, pamphlets or
id knowing all matters to and beld big positions at the eipense of dodgem essential as Sill posting DotJ'T you think tbat it would be a
be authentic they go band in hand, and you can- good idea for bill posters to exchange
As all our craft are aware, we meet in not impress too firmly upon the bill views, or express their opinions about
Detroit, Mich-, on Tuesday, Wednesday seen fit. He conld make any deal he posters, or parties wbo make a specialty posting, and also keep each other in-
f. July oth, 10th and nth, wanted, and never give our interest any of distributing, that the work should be
:r. if they never attended consideration. Novr all this is changed. done honestly and conscientiously. There that would be for the good of the fi
a meeting before, should attend this one, We have our New York representative, should be a fair price paid for distribut- nity?
as matters of importance will be brought who devotes his entire time and attention ing. We figure if a man averages six
up that will amply repa "
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to our interest, and if you will piece your hundred to eight hundred pieces of ad. J. G. Reese, of Reese St Long, Scran-
vertising matter a day, he is doings good ton, Pa while on his return from Phila-
confidence in him you will see where ,
whether m find' the benefits are derived. If we searched day's work, and it is a trade in itseli. delphia, where he was in attendance al
the eutife country we could find do more Some people may say, "Well, I can dis- the Odd Fellows'
celebration, was a caller
only be vent- competent man for the place than the easy as anybody e'se." I say at our New York office, sod said "Since :
There is pi'es of paper ready to be put the honesty of the parties distributing, cago. A special edition for collectors
out if the advertisers know that we are as there is hardlyany wav to check this has been issued, copies of which may be
united. work up With bill posting you can ride bad by addressing The Echo Publishing
really and positively know bill posters Co., Chicago, Ills, enclosing twenty- five
who have had work seat them at the and they who and what we
will see then
regular Association rates of three cents are. My agreement and membership I Scri »n art's have issued a special col-
per sheet per week and have refused to knock at the door of every home "Napoleon" pos-
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hlets or circulars.
long ago as
broof. Treatise Again:
iug, Vaine Playes," printed in 1579, the the above heading a - column
author Rives ua to understand that those which has' brought in news and comment, of interest to poster
who were addicted lo such things used branch of commeri printers.
to "set up Iheir billies npon postes (and from unimportant.
The successive stages of this commerce Sauuei, booth, whose father esta,
hence the name 'posters' for the large
Wished tbc first poster printing establish,
street billswas presumably derived) cer- in posters are interesting to note When
the Gist works of this kind ment in thia country, is now with the
IViu-iil Marathon County Agricultural Society. tain dayes before, to admonish people to
Empire Show Priming Co, of Chicago.
Opinion make resort into their theatres, that they
Tlinyer.Kt'y. their campaign. How could these mural
He is one of the most popular men in the
WMtEenu. Tfpff Bend Agrieulli may be thereby better furnished, and the
frescos be secured ? To peel them off the
to fill their purse with
wall one's self at night seemed the sim-
The eailiest copy of a The Walter L. Main Shows' paper has
plest plan, but it was also the most dan- excited more admiration and talk
than
of Five Hours," printed in gerous. It involved the risk of being that ol any other show on the road.
caught in the act, taken to the police
The
chief charms of the paper liea in novel
hand, and reads: This day station and soundly fined, to say nothing lines npon which it is projected. The
being the 15th of December, shall be "of the risk of peeling" them badly and
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idea originated with W. E. Franklin*
acled as a new play, never played before, getting off the wall only a thing of tatters.
called' The Adventures of Five Honrs." It became necessary then to secure the
ONTARIO, CANADA. - complicity of an all powerful personage-
Ca:npbfliror<l. SrvniDur Agricultural The posters simply gave notice to the
F. Bontiyia-llf. — public, who would otherwise have been, tie bill poster. How many great collec-
tors,honorable and honored men, rich Printers' Association, will be held at the
left iu ignorance of the play to be per-
and well placed in life, have bowed down Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York City, on
formed ; but when the regular playbill
of the :
_ before his majesty, the bill poster! The Monday, June 3rd, at 11 o'clock. Mr.
paster of posters, realizing a snm which Thos. S. Dando, of tie Philadelphia Led-
varied with the importance or the vogue ger Job Office, has given much time to
of the matter in hand, came to deserve thia Association, and it is to be hoped
audience, it is impassible to state with
anything approaching lo accuracy. A the name of the nnpaster of posters.
copy of the earliest that was known to That was the primitive period, the stone
eiist was unearthed by the late John age of poster collectors The bronie age
Payne Collier, but unfortunately Mr. Col- began when one or two print
Iter's connection with a spurious Shake-
the neighborhood of the qua?:
speare folio makes doubtful the authen-
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any of his discoveries. The which they sold to their
playbill reads
By His Majesty-* Com H uy of Comediaiu. at the flood of demind finally decided that it ing establishment in Chicago.
was worth while to arrange with the pro Jim, as
he is familiarly and affectionately known
prietors of the posters themselves that a
among showmen, always makes a rocceaa
part of each printii'K should be reserved
of show p-ii. ting, bnt not always of abow
badness. His former connection wilh
0.- Seis-
Ch aa, Erin Venter, cost him his position
with the Enquirer Job Office in Gin-
do well to place
themselves in communication with Wal-
ter G. Cooper, Chief of the Department
of Publicity and Promotion of the Cotton of bringing about thia state of
What has became of the proposi iffairs. Whether we shall be 51
Stales and International Exposition Co.,
to do away with posters recently a^it,
of A'lsnta This insiitu'ion is even now
"-v the New York Dramatic Mirror ?
putting oat vast quantities of distribut-
ing wark and will fairly inundate the md we desire the printer:
ud svnda. We
will reproduce them iu
niniature in our columns, wilh credit
ud comment without charge. Do not
SSS!SS!SSSSSi*«***SiiS*iiSS
C,TY BILL poster,
11 P Fairnhilfl
Covington, Mild ale, West Covington, Ludlow and Surroundings.
The Price Advertising fio.i lb' East Fifth Street, COVINGTON, KY.
BILL POSTERS. DISTRIBUTERS. &c. The INTERNATIONAL PROPAGANDA CO
FERRON, CURTIS rS CO.. Managers.
CENERHL HDiZERTISING CONTRKCTORS
United Slates, Canada, Mexico, Central and Eoutti America, and the Weal lodles.
JSpecial—
TO
postet-s?
f|BfTi
j;^dve t-trs.ri3 Agents,
CINCINNATI. OHIO.
ELEGTROTYPING!
Special Attention Glv*n to
Fine WOOD-CUT and BOOK work
WINKELMAN 5 BURBANK,
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