The Detroit news: eighteen hundred and seventy-three, nineteen hundred and seventeen, a record of progress: . E 8 Of I c O. The Mailing and Shipping Rooms. 87 the steel mailing room tables, where also aire twine reels and disappearing pastepots. Daily the mailing room requires two hundred and fifty mail bags, butSundays the bulk of the newspaper sends the number up to about five hundred. Transportation charges for Sunday editions are not a matter to be sniffed at,for the total number of pages of one issue averages about fifteen million, and theweight runs close to a quairter of a million pound
The Detroit news: eighteen hundred and seventy-three, nineteen hundred and seventeen, a record of progress: . E 8 Of I c O. The Mailing and Shipping Rooms. 87 the steel mailing room tables, where also aire twine reels and disappearing pastepots. Daily the mailing room requires two hundred and fifty mail bags, butSundays the bulk of the newspaper sends the number up to about five hundred. Transportation charges for Sunday editions are not a matter to be sniffed at,for the total number of pages of one issue averages about fifteen million, and theweight runs close to a quairter of a million pounds. Of this, about one^fourthis delivered out of Detroit by mail, express, special electric car and are made by- automobile as far as thirty miles from the city. Twospecial electric trains have been employed at times over routes more than a hun-dred miles long, to carry the Sunday paper, though three special interurban carsnow render adequate service. Seven times a day editions are issued, each revised to include the latestnews. The day of more numerous editions has passed, though time was whenmor
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