V ' r t'l v , JtT - ! I ?. 1 LiT r 1 I '- If & I"1' - f. P U'c d . l-V fBVEmNfg.PTJBMO IJBDqER-PHlLDEIiHIA; WEpjSTESDAY, FEBlftlARY 5, 1Q19 V? Be l ...VI ..1 l ) 4 iJ. v 3 j jA . m .t J? fAl " -JM ' . 1 1? ODAY Detroit is the fastest growing: and hardest eroine- citv in America. With a million people only three other cities surpass it in ooDiilation. Fifteen years ago it was the tenth city. 1 i H V ' Detroit has supplied 60 per cent of the more than five million motor vehicles that have revolutionized social and economic con ditions in the United States. Today 284,000 wage-earners are en gaged in producing over a billion dollars' worth of manufactured products, making Detroit the fourth city in this respect. Nearly one million dollars a day three hundred million-dollars a year are paid out here in WAGES ALONE one reason perhaps why Detroit was always FIRST among the larger cities to oversub scribe its Liberty Loan quotas. Command This Market With Not Merely Detroit's workers know how to live; they know how to buy: they are earning a higher per capita wage than is paid in any other M j jl . 1J Tr j . j 1 . f . t 1 . 1 k a city m me worm, r orty-tnree per cent 01 tne people own tneir own homes. The prosperity of this city is not the prosperity of a boom community, but the prosperity that grows steadily with each day. It is a vital, pulsing, powerful market a community without a rival in its dynamic spirit. It is a market that any manufacturer with anything sellable can ill afford to overlook. -v' "? yi r !,m (jsii;5 & r A fi v. a Newspaper That's READ, Circulated "4. fXf- Eighty-eight years ago the first "Free Press editorial was written with a quill pen by candle light. Through the years it has kept to the forefront of the better thought of the hour and built up a personality with prestige. Sound judgment based upon careful thought; the pre sentment of the world's news in journalistic garments that typify- sanity and sincerity; the avoidance of the seamy side of things; constructive, not destructive,,, ideals; is the structure Upon which an enduring newspaper personality has been erected. k 1 - 7N It is the ONLY morning newspaper in a city of a million. It has kept pace with the growth of Detroit, doubling its circulation in eight years, just as the city doubled its population. It is the only newspaper in Detroit that can show WHERE ITS CIRCU LATION GOES. Essentially it is the HOME newspaper of a thriving, prosperous commonwealth. The pre-eminence it has attained among local and national adver-' tisers is positively established through its position in the Sunday advertising field. In 1918 The Sunday Detroit Free Press carried 4,738,286 lines of paid advertising, an excess over its only Sunday competitor of 425,852 lines, a most convincing testimonial as to the " ACTUAL WORTH of the newspaper circulation of Detroit 1 (, ! Let THE FREE PRESS Aid You to COMMAND the Detroit Market v y ',-a ., :x Wffi'ttW EIGHTY EIGHT YEARS AGOTMEFIRST FREE PRESS EDITORIALVVA5 WRITTEN WITH QUI LL HEM. BY (JflNULfc LIGrl V. Free Press Autp Show Number, March 2nd 1 The Largest Combined Morning and Sunday Paid Circulation in Michigan fERREE & GONKLIN, Inc., Foreign Representatives Free Pre Auto Show Number. March 2nd 1- Al4 ' 'i ; , J.I 7! J W H N1 i 1 TTJ $ M .n .,. a r V . ft NEW YORKt Sruniwiok Bll&. DETHOIT: , , Frca Fr Bldj(. .' C -Jt f- .. 1? Tf,Y J ys - .&i t. kHMaesaS'V'1. ti L -.A Ll iV'.iv' , .'V ' ?
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers