Billboard advertising (May 1895)

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The Rochester Bill Posting Co., ED. A. STAHLBRODT, Manager. Bill Pos'ers, Distributers and General Advertisers. No. 16 and THE ERIE BILL POSTING CO. ED. A. STAHLBRODT, Manager. Bill Posters, Distributers and General Advertisers, No. to North Park Row. ERIE, PA. Prudes on the Prowl. I a pbra "Prudes on tbe wfakfa has "catighl the action of the County Council, in the ntalrer of the Empire License. Into (lie merits of that case we shall not enter, hut wi as billposters haie Tor a long time past been subject to the criticism of ■ Prudes on the prowl," although we never thought of coining s<> happy a phrase to describe the criticism front f lias long upersensilive prudery of the members f the Cork Corporation. Still, to the redit of the Corporation, it shou'd be teled, that, as a body they declined to DENVER D0TT1NQS. Mr. Knight, agent of Beeman's Pepsin Cum, Of Cleveland, Ohio, made us a call k Of til le bod> as he Count ««>g .e bill p ilL-llLS try to fee: . in this wilt see that a picture of a ballet girl has been objected to because her skirts were short, as if a ballet girl can have any other than short skirts From Cork, however, comes the latest and most re- market) e exhibition of pru'ferv which we remember. Ore of the Town Coun- cilors arose in bis place in the Council and deuouueed Messrs. Guy & Co., for corrupting the morals uf the young peo- ple of Cork by posting indecent bills. There is not a more respectab'e fin in the business than that of Messrs. Guy 8j Co. They occupy a deservedly high: place amongst the tradesmen of the ci y, and would not knowingly do the slight- est thing which could by any kind of judgement be construed into an act for "corrnpiing the moral of the joung peo- ple of the city." What then was this act of theirs wh-ch was having so terrilile a resu ! l? It was that they had actually posted hr.ugbt the Bavril Company could see their way to meet this gentleman s objections in the way we have menticce-l 'be advertise- ment would be a very effective one, atiu cause a great deal of attention from its novelty. It is desirable in these days of purity that Nature should be improved up n. and Mr of the picture in question, might be i minstrel agent is in charge of Car No. J, Ed. Norris, an old St. Louis bill pos'er, has charge of the paper, with Charles Flora as his assistant. They have taken some of our regular bill posters away, but we have got new men and have broken them in. Mr, Jenkins is in charge of Car No. 3, which -ros Eturtril out after No. I. No doubt but that this season will be a prosperous one. They open in Denver, May id, for three days. ..HU„ lt -,i i, a bull il ■ band ai .-what Mark Twain Art ib Advertising devotes a page 'roasting" street car advertising. It speaks "the dtcline in value of street car apace " in face of the fact that street car advertising is increasing in populariiy and more value given with the perfection of service, whith comes ss a result of confidence and patronage of advertisers. -Display Advertising, St Louis. H. C. Frcse, wuo ^as been agent with the Pat Rooney show all this season, closed here and left to join as press any bookings to place his show in the best houses, was here this month repre- senting the only fcicbards & Piingle's Georgia Minstrels. They played to big business in the Southwest circuit, aud also at the Tabor Opera House. Mr. B. E Richards, manager of Richards & Prtngle'a Georgia Mins'.rels called later. He was surprised at Ibe good, successful eek, aud left here bappy, saying be Something mnst have h Munsey's. He has gotten 01 people can understand — Art in Advertising . o tbe m r futu Out of ten single-sheet posters hung in a Sixth avenue elevated station last week, nine were the work of engraven, while one, and only one, was printed from a type form constructed by a "pos- ter hand." There is every indication that another year will witness the 1 de- parture of poster type, and that the pos- ter of the future will be the product of the engraver's ait. This is not particu- larly to be deplored, as the engravers are a better paid class of men, and it take* longer to engrave a hill than to set it up —Union Printer, New York, nill Luc of a bull. it of posted one of these pictures; thus, tbey had become ' corrupters of the morals of the young" It seems to us that an Irish- man is nothing if he is lot emphatic; he is of such an ardent temperament that and thus, whichever side he takes on any given iiuestion, he is an eatremest. This is the only excuse we cm think of for such an objection concerning the picture ofihe Bovril bull Shakespe.re makes Shylock to depl .re tliei to some people there is offense i'i a 1 harmless necessarv cat," athough no reason for il can be giveu. So surely for this offense no sound reason can be given. The Cork Corporation on^ht to pass a resolution that all bovs in public schoo's should cease to walk in the fields trail] such time as tbe farmers bad provided clothicg Tor the animals browsing there- iu. Messrs Guy & Co., desirous always to remove any cause of offense which their hoardings cou Id possibly eon lain, at :e covered up the bull pictures, aud contract. Perhaps the «uvii. i_ompnny will sec their way 10 have some new bulls made clothed iu trousers, and send Ibetti to Cork for ex- hibition, and 10 av The Greatest Guide. F:om lime to lime during the past ten or a dozen years, attempts have been made by various individuals and firms to issue complete and comprehensive the- atrical gu des conveying all sorts of use- ful information concerning the different branches of the amusement calling. Some of these guides have been very good, and some of them of them of trifling value. But there can he no mistaking the qual. ity of the mist recent theatrical guide whrch has just been issued by W. H. Don- aldson, of Cincinnati, Obio. This is, be- yond all dispute, the greatest book in i s line ever projected. It contains, iu ad. dition to all other information that ha» books ol all I useful tele- graph code, and, in fact, all kinds of in- formation on all sorts of subjects that can interest managers, actors, agents. counected with theatricals. The tele- impiled a Mr. Moran. agent of Koblers Tea. of Baltimore, Md. was with us this month, and contracted for sampling Denver. Pueblo and Colorado Springs. He speaks ve-y highly of tbe paper. EillbOaSd AnVERTIS-NG. Tbs Advance C>r No I, of the Syndi- cate & Paris Hippodrome Circus started out and we commenced billing Denver April 9tb. Tbey go from here to Pueblo aud Colorado. Charlie Holton, the old Mr. C. S. Houghti Advertising Signs" fan which is probably tbe best list extanL Bill posters are beginning to do a little advertising on their own account, but ' tbey ought to advertise a great deal more. Every bill poster in the TJnited States ought to be a subscriber to Print- ers' Ink. With a view to introducing "The Little Schoolmaster," a sample copy of the issue of May aid will be mailed to each of the thousand or so names in Mr H ought sling's list.— Print- ers' Ink, New York. mful-u which e raph tbe operators can rot peuetrate uu!ess tbey are owners of Mr. Donaldson's book. Up to this time I have not been a strong advocate of the kinds of theatrical guides in circulation. But this one is so im- goue befoie it as to command my otecm and hiarty endorsement. No person connected with the business end of any amusement scheme ought lobe without ardsens Pramatit Ne ws. ELDER, JENKS & RABORQ, 'Excelsior' Circus Paste BUL POSTERS' BRUSHES Slza y inch. Prfce $30.00 per doz. $3.25 Each. ELDER.JEHKS&RABOflG PHILADELPHIA. 127 N- Fifth Street, Cor. Cherry,