The billboard (Oct 1895)

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BILLBOARD ADVERTISING U the Official Oman of the MICHIGAN Bill Posters' Association. Islington, Ky. Sept. it, limit) K HiLT.it'UKn Advkktising, not object to hearing from Lexington, the Hub of the Blue Grass country. I would be feeling blue about Spauldiug & Gordon, of Itoisc Lily. Hot HM i„ K n le f lrst pri« for my ad. were the ^, me »!^ # ™_ th « ^ it not for the fact thatbusiness is so good. and I hail to have our own paper posted to keep them looking respectable, the .Opera Bill Posters' Notes. lie Southern Hill Posting Association, br.iciug the states of UmMaua, Miss- pin and Alabama, i* in process of organ- ciati'd Hill l'oslers- Association point Thcr are much exercised over the fact that the" Capital City Bill I-osting Co. ,.f the same place, advortisethat they cou- ROCKY HOUNTAIN Bll|L POSTERS' OHIO BILL POSTERS' ASSOCIATION uiMli.il of the Ohio Dill n was held at the i:pton Hi yesterday, with r* 1.. D. Hoffer. of Meridian. Miss., is one "* of the progressive bill posters of the " The largest permanent hill Imard in the world. Oiat owned by Durkee S; Callahan. covered by Primleys Chewing Gum Husiness is very good in Montana. The boards look bright with new paper. Re- newed activity la the mining districts is Priraley's Gum, with all we put out judiciously for another thirty days show, Pabst Tonic, Coca Cola, Warner's Safe Cure. Tansill's I*unch, Peruna, Aunt Jemima's Pancake Flour, etc. Local pa- per for Kentucky's great trots, and more merchants than ever advertised before. The loo copies of Hi r T1SINC I subscribed for have brought uiorebusinessalreadythanj ever expect- ed, although but received as yet, w Mr. Ceo. H. 1- >s from a florist; w ,e of the bill .vork up local potronage. Read his letter in another col- li Co„ Cincinnati, are ul for new locations, j the fact that they al read,- have one of the largest lists in th« couutrv. thev are continually adding to it The advertisers who send their work tt litem air always sure of a good showing What might lie styled the New York City Association has been instituted in the Metropolis. It consists of Van Bueren & »■■■ ■■ «»■ ——» — -»—? a -- Co.. Ham- Mutison and Messrs. Reagan ">!»« »f BILLBOARD Advertisekc t & Clark.' Thev have a constitution and the business men of their towns. We hav bv-laws. or rather to be more exact, a con- o«ly used them iwb months, and ca hundred dollars worth c lirect result of their readin : paper. 1 Have had H posters who knows how- to work up local bim a (5 „ contract as follows: painted '"' andpostedsixstands4i7,engraved, print- ed and posted 300 one sheets, all 30 days showing, distributed 3000 addressed fold- s, all for f 50. This is a cheap contract, but a good starter for a local man. A dry goods firm gave us an order for a one sheet engraved, printed, posted, 300 for fJS- thirty days show. We cut them out of a pine block and have them printed, so Hi 1 ,« S t cra As« C iall 0 no lt he C nl t «i a ui 1 e..u 1 l ^ . b— Ifrtkt U V. W9 The subiectof price.™ thorough,, du™*cd ZEZv'm T£F<££f JTlt «nd.Umemt«r.™tednn.mm O uslyt 0 maiaUi= JT™^; B „ ™t I. w ZLuh toe price, that were iu.de .1 the last NaliaD.l Asbtahuta- Pn..kP tt.»~C«li«to«- conation...1*.™^ Mich. Vn£S!S^0^SSS»SSS!!!Z The folkroing officer, were elected for the en- Cambrid co Tnylorft Co . LTh.™ ; Hiuon mine year: President. James A. Cumm; vice- „. „.,„:,_. „, =JJ _ -J. .= president. John Coleman, Lcadvillc ; Secretary. rules which tliey are all doing business under. They hare meetings each week where all differences and disputes are ad- justed and settled, and n set of fines rang- ing from (50 to (300, for violations of any with others it billboards, rhohliiig*."; <e the number of o has several thousand dollars in fund, which is deposited in a Trust Company. So far the work, to perfection and it is t' of the parties interested I ic forfeit il.'ss lln-, Urn Mr. of the d figlitf .loirn in New York in the fut ose». expert a. * bridge .from Gotham, lakes me to task for being flip, and but gives me credit for havi bill posters ad in the piper, probably knows how to writi allogell suing I: W, C. Tirrill. ..I l.iu.a. Ohio, wants 1 it was bill posters votes I was after a. well. If I had received first prize, the space for twelve months. 1 would have bad time to lookout for business, but as it is 1 got more business than I mi espeeled 10 have in Lexington, WtsMac Bit-LHOAd tlw boy* Out read it