ABSTRACT
Mention has been made of the difficulty in obtaining lists of the newspapers published. In pursuance of efforts to awaken interest in the matter, as well as to provide a medium of communication with persons likely to be interested, and with advertisers generally; we had, while in Boston, started a little periodical called the Advertiser’s Gazette. It was in connection with that publication that attention began to be directed to some queer rulings and usages of the Postoffice Department. The arrangement for issuing the Advertiser’s Gazette, had with a Boston printer, was so satisfactory that it did not seem desirable to disturb it; but as the office of publication was now announced to be New York the Postoffice Department could not allow a New York publication to be mailed from Boston. The same question crops up nowadays (1905) on occasion, as in the case of the American Agriculturist, purporting to be published in New York, but really printed and mailed in Springfield, Mass., the influence of Mr. Herbert Myrick, the apostle of beet sugar, being able to secure a privilege that might be refused to a concern without a pull. It is not easy to see what connection there can be between beet sugar and the Postoffice Department, but no one man can expect to see everything.
