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This Is a Copy of an Advertisement Appearing in the Chicago Tribune ,
Do You Appreciate the Size of
Philadelphia as a Market for Your Goods?
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THE old boundary lines were made in 1854,
inside of which the census gives Philadelphia
credit for about 1,700,000 people. Boston
gets credit for about 700,000 but everybody
knows -that the real Boston is a ,city of
2,000,000 or more. So in Philadelphia. She
overgrew her boundary lines fears ago, and is
fri reality a city, of
FIVE MILLION PEOPLE
in what is called Metropolitan Philadelphia
The banking resources, not including the $2,247,000,000 as compared with Chicago's
trust deposits, are $1,270,000,000. If they total banking resource of $1,460,030,258.
included the trust deposits of $977,000,000 they The following is the value of exports for the
would have a total banking resource of fiscal year 1918, requiring Customs supervision:
NEW YORK ...$2,616,850,680
PHILADELPHIA 446,612,168
NEW ORLEANS 381,428,110
BALTIMORE 336,356,608
SAN FRANCISCO 211,874,817
BOSTON 205,189,419
Philadelphia collected $2,201,196 MORE PUBLIC LEDGER-LONDON TIMES
revenue during the last fiscal year than Boston, News Service.
San Francisco and Baltimore combined, and This, with the Associated Press Service
at $1,149,826 LESS expense. ' and its own European correspondents, gives
Philadelphia's efficiency is reflected in the' it the world's greatest news service.
Public Ledger, which is spending over $200,000 Its progressiveness is making Philadelphia
v a year to give its readers the very remarkable the news center of the world.
THE PUBLIC LEDGER
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