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Home Life Home Reading Some of the popular reading materials of the 1890s were advertised in local guides for Powys. 'The People' was already established as a national Sunday newspaper and offered a variety of entertaining reading for 1 penny. It also claimed contributions from some very distinguished literary figures. LARGEST SALE
THE PEOPLE 100 Columns. THE LARGEST AND BEST LONDON WEEKLY, in addition to giving FULLER NEWS OF THE WEEK Than any other Newspaper, contains Social Articles, Volunteer Gossip, Hints for the Garden, Household Recipes, Law and Police, Latest Telegrams, both Home and Foreign, Sporting News and Predictions (Larry Lynx), &c., &c. "THE PEOPLE'S" OMNIBUS SHOULD BE READ BY ALL; Political and Social Gossip, Natural History, Angling and Cycling Notes, Dramatic and Musical Chat, and a Special Article for Ladies. By Wideawake, M.P., General Chatter, Buckland Junior, Old Izaak, Mr Wheeler, The Actor, Piper Pan, and Madame. A SERIAL TALE BY AN EMINENT AUTHOR is a special feature. "Haggard," "Ouida," "Zola," "Wilkie Collins," "Grant Allen," "Rudyard Kipling," "Q." "Conan Doyle," and "Bret Harte," have contributed. Prospective arrangements include stories by GUY BOOTHBY, Author of "Dr. Nikola," RICHARD MARSH and W. CLARK-RUSSELL. Editions are Published on Friday and Saturday for Despatch by the Country Mails. An Edition is Published late on Saturday Afternoon, and Posted in time for delivery in the country on Sunday Morning. Terms of Subscription, 1/8 per Quarter, or 6/6 per annum. To be obtained at ALL RAILWAY STATIONS, or can be ordered at ALL NEWSAGENTS. 1D. "THE PEOPLE." 1D. OFFICES: Milford Lane & Arundel Street, Strand, W.C. Another journal which was very popular - according to its circulation figures
- was Titbits magazine, although the significance of the 'insurance claims'
remains an enigma. George Newnes also published 'The Strand', where
from July 1891 Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes appeared on a regular basis.
Actual Circulation - Considerably over
500,000 Copies Weekly. Every article that appears in TIT-BITS is primed with interesting facts, collected first-hand and compiled by the cleverest Journalists of the day; in addition to this, there are pages upon pages of Original Jokes, Stories, and Miscellaneous Paragraphs, as well as a splendidly written Serial Story by one of our foremost Writers of Fiction. TIT-BITS has actually paid the enormous sum of £9,200 in Genuine Insurance Claims, made in consequence of fatal Railway Accidents. The great popular periodical, conducted by George Newnes, is published every Thursday, price 1d.; and it may be obtained from any Newsagent, Bookseller, or Railway Bookstall throughout the world. George Newnes, Ltd., 8, 9, 10 & 11, Southampton Street, Strand, London, W.C. For readers with a taste for fiction, Grumpy Grafton offered a substantial list of novels, again for the price of a penny.
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