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The Evening Bulletin began in 1847 as Cummings\' Evening Telegraphic Bulletin, among the first American papers to print news off the wire. William L. McLean bought it in 1895, when it ran last among Philadelphia\'s thirteen dailies at roughly 7,000 copies a day; by 1900 circulation had cleared 120,000. This card was printed in the middle of that climb.
The card is a fortnightly account with a country newsdealer in Berks County. The Bulletin billed 180 copies at six-tenths of a cent apiece, $1.08, against $1.47 carried from the previous period. Printed terms required settlement every two weeks and refused postage stamps as payment once the sum reached a dollar. Pencil figures across the bottom run the account out to an overpayment.
Circulation peaked near 774,000 in 1947, making the Philadelphia Bulletin the largest evening newspaper in the United States. Television, the suburbs, and a rebuilt Inquirer ground it down. The last edition came off the press on January 29, 1982, and a short-lived revival of the name two decades later is gone as well.
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