Note 36 — Chapter VIII · COMMERCIAL TROUBLES AND SUCCESSES—“THE WEEKLY JOURNAL”
Reading edition
It may be interesting to reproduce here the statement of accounts, &c., of the paper at the time of the sale:
Receipts
Sale of Newspapers £2390
Advertisements 1055
Total £3445
Expenditure
Annual cost of stamps and paper £1425
Printing 570
Advertisement duty 360
Clerks’ salaries, office rent, &c. 250
Allowance for bad debts 230
Profits 610
Total £3445
—Edinburgh Newspapers, Past and Present (1891).