AN EXTRAORDINARY ADVERTISEMENT.
The charge of proprietorship of the Evening Star and the issue of the paper from the Glasgow News were announced by 1,025,000 little hand-bills, which were printed in the incredibly small space of half an hour. Such a feat of rapid printing we believe has never before been performed, and it would have been impossible to perform it but for the “ Walter ” press. The process was interesting. The small hand-bill, measuring three inches by two, was reproduced by stereotyping to the extent of 336 times, and by 4000 revolutions of the “ Walter ” press the million bills were printed. It occupied ten hours to cut them up with a steam guillotine machine, and they were distributed throughout the town from the windows of two carriages.
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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 334, 8 July 1875, Page 3
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127AN EXTRAORDINARY ADVERTISEMENT. Globe, Volume IV, Issue 334, 8 July 1875, Page 3
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