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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 17, 1906

Interesting Extracts

Notes Concerning the Earthquake Special of “The Signs of the Times”

From letters received we take the following paragraphs of interesting information about the campaign for the special issue of the Signs:—

“APRIL 30.—Our school at Fernando, Cal., has ordered, up to date, 2,350 copies.

“Our school at Graysville, Tenn., has ordered by telegraph 5,500 copies.

“A little boy six years old sold 113 copies on the streets of Mountain View yesterday.

“Brother Ferren sold 111 copies in Mountain View last Friday afternoon, and he and Brother Olcott, another one of our young men helpers in the Signs office, sold 218 in the streets of Palo Alto, all in one block, evening after the Sabbath.

“We have districted all of Santa Clara Valley, the valley in which the Signs office is located, and brethren and sisters from the Mountain View church are out all through the valley as I am writing this letter, selling the paper.

“We received orders for 43,000 copies by wire this morning before eight o’clock.”

“MAY 2.—During the last twenty-four hours orders for nearly 150,000 copies have been received by wire.

“One conference orders 28,000 as a starter. Individuals are ordering from one hundred to twenty-five hundred copies. All pronounce this the best and most complete of anything yet published. The papers sell at sight. Some agents are selling as high as fifteen and twenty copies to one person to be sent to friends.

“Our big perfecting press is running night and day at the rate of five thousand copies an hour, and we would like to keep this up for several weeks.”