From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #15542 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Monday, February 17 2025 Volume 14 : Number 15542 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Exclusive Offer: Complete Our Survey and Win a Ninja CREAMi Ice Cream Maker! ["Costco Offers Team" Subject: Exclusive Offer: Complete Our Survey and Win a Ninja CREAMi Ice Cream Maker! Exclusive Offer: Complete Our Survey and Win a Ninja CREAMi Ice Cream Maker! http://volcaburn.ru.com/Gk4qFuyORTsIppM7v_8lusZzOchepaVBkjSBYvE8P4IGigR90A http://volcaburn.ru.com/R-fKuwS716EBhTTfJXG2w5uT9l-bOo637f_5vxLMDAiIyRyrNA ent of artists by the world's most successful illustrated paper, The Illustrated London News, and having a good business sense, Thomas resolved to set up an opposition. His illustrated paper, despite being more expensive than its competition, became an immediate success. Realization When it began in 1869, the newspaper was printed in a rented house. The first editor was Henry Sutherland Edwards. The Graphic was published on Saturdays and its original cover price was sixpence, while the Illustrated London News was fivepence. A successful artist himself, founder Thomas recruited gifted artists, including Luke Fildes, Hubert von Herkomer, Frank Holl, and John Everett Millais. In its first year, it described itself to advertisers as "a superior illustrated weekly newspaper, containing twenty-four pages imperial folio, printed on fine toned paper of beautiful quality, made expressly for the purpose and admirably adapted for the display of engravings". An illustration from the newspaper from 1884 The premature death of co-founder Lewis Samuel Thomas in 1872 "as one of the founders of this newspaper, [and who] took an active interest in its management" left a marked gap in the early history of the publication. By 1882, the company owned three buildings and twenty printing presses, and employed more than 1,000 people. Luson Thomas's seventh son George Holt Thomas was a direc ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #15542 ***********************************************