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Across the top of Grit's front page is the design which has been there since its first year, a rococo drawing of two pudgy cherubs having a tug-of-war with a long banner lettered GRIT. Each cherub has a quill pen behind his ear. Around the shoulders of one is slung a pastepot. The other carries a pair of shears. Strewn about the background are stacks of books, a globe, a telescope on a tripod, a gear wheel and an anvil (presumably symbolizing business & industry...
...50th Anniversary Number included an extra supplement devoted to Grit, its history, its family. Peering from the front page was a large photograph of Founder-Publisher Lamade whose white hair is the only sign of his age?73. He was a $12-a-week printer on the Williamsport Daily Sun & Banner in 1882 when Grit first appeared as the Banner's Saturday afternoon edition. It made a poor start. Its publishers were about to scrap it when Printer Lamade got two other men to help him buy it, publish it separately in another shop. Grit Publishing Co. was founded with...
...years the paper barely eluded the sheriff. Then Publisher Lamade organized a lottery (legal in those days), with prizes of a piano, a gold watch, a marble-top chamber suite, a rifle, a silk dress pattern. Four coupons clipped from Grit bought a chance. Few months later the paper was out of debt; its circulation (initially 1,500) was 14,000. The three proprietors shook hands, raised their own wages from...
From that time on, with five exceptions, circulation mounted each year. The growth was stimulated by the employment of an army of boy salesmen who handle the bulk of Grit's circulation. Today there are 19,000 Grit-boys. An oldtime Grit-boy is Publisher John Charles Martin, head of the Curtis-Martin newspapers...
Last week Founder Lamade's bald Son George, vice president, was in Manhattan to see what he could do about boosting the scant national advertising in Grit. The paper has prospered on circulation profits, but Benton & Bowles advertising agency discovered by the way Grit readers responded to a jelly-making contest last autumn that it should be an excellent medium for household advertising. Thus far Grit's advertising has been predominantly the tawdry patent medicine type. Excerpt from an advertisement of "The Medicine Man" in the anniversary issue: "An Indian Chief told my Father that a tea made by taking...