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Finding it impossible for the WEEKLY IRON AGE to accommodate our numerous and liberal advertising patrons, and at the same time present an amount of reading matter satisfactory to our readers, and keep squarely up with the daily passing events, the proprietors announce that the first issue of THE DAILY AGE will appear SATURDAY morning, the 3d day of December. To | Finding it impossible for the WEEKLY IRON AGE to accommodate our numerous and liberal advertising patrons, and at the same time present an amount of reading matter satisfactory to our readers, and keep squarely up with the daily passing events, the proprietors announce that the first issue of THE DAILY AGE will appear SATURDAY morning, the 3d day of December. To begin its career the DAILY will be only a twenty-column paper—five columns to the page,—and its growth and prosperity will of course depend upon the practical encouragement extended the enterprise by the businessmen of Birmingham and vicinity. | ||
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Revision as of 15:50, 12 February 2010
The Daily Age was a "daily" newspaper published in Birmingham by the Iron Age Publishing Company from December 3, 1881 to November 1888.
The paper was launched as a simple, four-page paper published six days a week (every morning except Monday). Birmingham Iron Age publishers W. C. Garrett and Frank V. Evans announced the new paper in the December 1 edition of the Iron Age:
Finding it impossible for the WEEKLY IRON AGE to accommodate our numerous and liberal advertising patrons, and at the same time present an amount of reading matter satisfactory to our readers, and keep squarely up with the daily passing events, the proprietors announce that the first issue of THE DAILY AGE will appear SATURDAY morning, the 3d day of December. To begin its career the DAILY will be only a twenty-column paper—five columns to the page,—and its growth and prosperity will of course depend upon the practical encouragement extended the enterprise by the businessmen of Birmingham and vicinity.
The first edition was distributed for free. The Birmingham Iron Age (referred to as the Weekly Iron Age above) continued separate publication until at least 1888. On November 8, 1888, The Daily Age and merged with The Daily Herald to form The Birmingham Age-Herald.