Arkham Advertiser
389 W Armitage Street
The Arkham Bulletin, the forerunner of the Advertiser, was first published in 1821. In 1828, the paper changed hands and was renamed the Miskatonic Valley Gleaner. The Gleaner appeared for four years, then was sold, reappearing as the Arkham Advertiser.
The Advertiser is the more aggressive of the two Arkham papers, even printing extras and what Gedney called "five-PMs" for Arkham, when news dictates. The Advertiser tends to print more features (especially about technical and scientific wonders, which Gedney favors), comics and ethnically slanted international news than does the Gazette.
Regular office hours are 8 A.M. to 6 P.M., Monday- Friday. Someone is usually in the office or the pressroom, even at midnight, but everything closes tight from 10 P.M. Saturday to 8 P.M. Sunday. The regular morning edition runs off at 3 A.M. If news warrants, revised editions- extras- run at 8 A.M., 11:30 A.M., or 4:30 P.M. These later editions are in small quantity, for local street-sale distribution only. A story is rarely big enough to warrant four editions in one day. Only one edition each appears Saturday and Sunday. The Sunday edition is run and distributed Saturday night. Daily editions cost 3 cents; the Sunday paper costs 7 cents. Special editions are printed for the Fourth of July, Armistice Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter, with as many display ads as Gedney can sell to local businesses.
The publisher and managing editor is 42- year old Harvey Gedney, whose family has owned the paper since 1832. He employs two full-time reporter/editors, a secretary, a linotypist, a caseman, two pressmen, a circulation manager, an advertising manager, and part-time help and correspondents as needed. (Herber, Keith, et al. “H.P Lovecraft's Arkham.” Chaosium , Jan. 2003)
The Advertiser is the more aggressive of the two Arkham papers, even printing extras and what Gedney called "five-PMs" for Arkham, when news dictates. The Advertiser tends to print more features (especially about technical and scientific wonders, which Gedney favors), comics and ethnically slanted international news than does the Gazette.
Regular office hours are 8 A.M. to 6 P.M., Monday- Friday. Someone is usually in the office or the pressroom, even at midnight, but everything closes tight from 10 P.M. Saturday to 8 P.M. Sunday. The regular morning edition runs off at 3 A.M. If news warrants, revised editions- extras- run at 8 A.M., 11:30 A.M., or 4:30 P.M. These later editions are in small quantity, for local street-sale distribution only. A story is rarely big enough to warrant four editions in one day. Only one edition each appears Saturday and Sunday. The Sunday edition is run and distributed Saturday night. Daily editions cost 3 cents; the Sunday paper costs 7 cents. Special editions are printed for the Fourth of July, Armistice Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter, with as many display ads as Gedney can sell to local businesses.
The publisher and managing editor is 42- year old Harvey Gedney, whose family has owned the paper since 1832. He employs two full-time reporter/editors, a secretary, a linotypist, a caseman, two pressmen, a circulation manager, an advertising manager, and part-time help and correspondents as needed. (Herber, Keith, et al. “H.P Lovecraft's Arkham.” Chaosium , Jan. 2003)
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