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Newspapers And Their Publishers

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
February
Year
1872
Copyright
Public Domain
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The foilowing áeculon by Judge Shor man, of tho United States District Court, of Cleveland, Ohio, ■ important to both publishers and advertisors: "The Unitefl States againsfc.W.K.Brown. 'i'ius i-:, a niotion fora nev trial, onwhich fche ivni-i i askod to review tfae êvidonce mi which o verdiet was rcndered againxt efendant it th present term. Tiio dfifendant, the pnblisner and próprietor t{ the AUianco Monitor, a weekly paper pnblished in Stnrk Countr, ivas indicted unfler the thirtoenth soction of tho act of i ■;. 1825, (seefirightly'a Digost, page 318, 8ecfcion 85)i for itrelpsing in h hows[iiiMT a piintod ivlvertisoment, purportin to f nn aclvi-rtisenient of the ' il'UK" ShrKv Store,' by ono O. W. [ whioh he thni delÍTOTed into tho postolilee at Allirtiioe; I bn oarried by miöl t Mdim t Vernon l'ree of postage. " The sectión of the it ftbove referred toprovides .■is follpws : ' lf any person siiall incloso ur OOTlooal lottor or other tliinp: or any memorandum in wiiting in a ndwnpaper, pamphlet or magazine, or in any {jackage oí newspapera, pamphlets or magnïiiies or shall make any writrngs or memoraniItu thereon, Whioh he slmll have d'Oiverod into any postoffioe or to any person Ebr tht purpose, in ord(-r th;it tho sanie nvy be can-ieil by post, free qf letter postftgo, he shall f'orteit tho sum of five dollars i''r i'vory ïttofc ofienm,' etot "Thefaets, as tlicv jippear, show thnt nn .■vlvertisi'iücnt odvertSsiBg hnndbill 6f the èhoe etöre of O W. Nush, (idealer in A11í;ithío, whore tlio nüwspnpec wns pablished, was inolosed, as einureed, ïn the edltion published Desemlwr 1, IS70, andsomailed for distribiitiota to allsnbsöribers wlm re ítwJ tíiat papar through tho mail, one of tium b(ÚTig for a subsoriboi' nt, Mount Vornon. "ïlm quftstiitn raised in tliis enqn is of oonaideraole imporiMoM to tlie publishors of papers, mul :i ruling upon it has bei n desirod bythe Posloffico Dopartment, nl: ii in tin; al the Inrit is eimcu". cl tlitittho ctefoudaut had no intention of violiitiriff aiiy law, it huving been tbu cusicnir, ti gome extent., ot' publiáfa Áewspapeis to snnd such circulara or sdvertisoments throngh the mail, supposing it wne p trinisstible undor postoffioe regubitiona whíih pro vide as folio ws: 'Pub. s ofnjwïpapers may, witliout subjoctiiiL' ni i!; to o :fra postage, fold witVa in tl er rogular issue a supplement, liu, in all sach cases the addea matter must bo a genuino supplement or appendage to tuo uewspaper in qoestion, and of the ■wi essontial charapter, eonveyiüg int.;ll'gincn of gonoral inti'nst. Un'lcr ih'e rjgulatlon it ia undoubtoilly oompeteot i'i publishers, as is ïrequently dono in Bm 'in ii(v.vsp:ipcis, HO not iinfroqncntlv' done in our ljiome papors, wlion a tax list or othof FÖluminous advertisirig niattnr is to ]bo pnbHshod, to print and inclo8e for distribution, by mail ov othorwiso, regular supplemcrtts, jontainintluí advertiging or ot'ncr general matter thut was crowded cmtofthe regalar ot usual -■■ il ;i::liis. Üui :i liatidiiill, circular or postor herc in qaefftion ia not Buob a supplement, attbongb, as in tliis case, it lutiy be so oalled or (■ntitlcrl by tln publisher. 1( is not ' 8 ff'!I1iiino supplement or appendage to the nowspaper.' It does not meet t'no comDion popular nndersi&nding of tho term ' supplement,' nor is it of the 'saine and essentiol oharacter as a ímwsjiipov,' nor does it convoy ' intriligenco ot passing eveats of general in teros V It is more in tlie nature ot' 11 privato circular, advertisenaenti liamü.ill or poster, and it may also ba remarked that it oontajns wood-enta and a largo style of print, wliieh could not bc insorted in u. newspapet without great ajid unnsuul troublo and inii. isp. It is not an advertisemfent rowdod out of the regular i sur, but suoh a one as would nevor !■ inserti d in aru_ular issun. It is true th.it cach case of thia nataire must bo indged by its own peculiar oharactcristics, bnt there i a wi le digtinetion betwfen the genuine supp'lement s]n,lvon of in the postofBoc regalation, and as filena defined and described,and a handbill, ndvertiseincnt or ciroulur, the disttnetive eharaeter of which, as distinguiBhed From a nuiirspapcr supplement, is readily appreoiated by tho popular un4 -rstaii'ling, an I d ■termines Üm law of the oase. " It does not appear, as I liavn before remurbed, that the defendunt in tliis onae purposely violiteÖ Üe postoiKoe aets and rcgHlatjonS) lut ha ving done so, althoiifrli ignhratíny, the luw recitlirés me to owrrule the raotion ::rid impo.se the statutory penalty and the costs."

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Old News
Michigan Argus