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First Sunday Dispatch published, Dec. 17, 1899

The Dispatch had been around for nearly three decades before it began publishing a Sunday edition. This editorial ran in that first Sunday paper to explain why:

The Sunday Dispatch makes its initial appearance this morning. It appears in response to a general and strong demand for such a paper. Issued in response to such a demand, it will endeavor to the best of its ability to meet and satisfy the demand to the fullest possible extent.

It will be, first of all, an independent and complete newspaper, holding fast to the same lines in this respect that The Dispatch has steadily followed heretofore. In its news department, in addition to its well-known local service, it will have the complete Associated Press service, whose value is too generally conceded to call for extra comment, and also the special cable service of the New York

World, together with its other specials of interest in the west.

As for its miscellaneous features, all the departments which have characterized The Dispatch in cents a copy. the past will be found every Sunday

morning in ampler form, together with other varied features of interest. As for the merit of all these features, that is left for the readers of the Sunday Dispatch to decide.

Finally, its price will be three cents, on the streets and at the news stands, while the regular Dispatch subscribers will get it along with the afternoon issues at 15 cents a week, the Evening Dispatch meanwhile selling on the streets and at the news stands for two

Incidentally, the 3-cent cover price would be about $1 in inflation-adjusted dollars today.

DISPATCH FILE PHOTO Front page of the Columbus Sunday Dispatch for Dec. 17, 1899. It is the first time The Dispatch published a Sunday edition.