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After working as a woodcutter, farmer, and apprentice tailor, John Motz finally found his calling as a newspaper man when he and friend Frederick Rittinger started the printing firm of Rittinger & Motz in 1859.
Photo caption reads: In the early 1900's, Rittinger and Motz, publishers of the Berliner Journal, moved to 25 Queen Street South, in 1959 the location of the Fountain Flower Shop. This was directly across the street from where the Journal was started.
Article reads: The paper had problems of distribution. At that time, when the small paper was produced, the printer got on his horse, rode into the country and distributed the papers to subscribers who were widely separated. The Journal was meticulously printed on a hand press and was punctual in production. Each of the four pages consisted of eight columns, and of 32 columns nine were devoted to advertising.
Top: green "Art Printing" promotional postcard.
Middle: green and blue subscription postcard.
Bottom: blue and white 'private postcard' addressed to: "Mr. G. B. Foster, Room 23, 2 College St., Toronto Ontario".
Postcard reads:
Journal Office, Berlin, Ont., July 29th 1899.
"Gentlemen,
We have not heard from you re: advertising in our Canada Kalendar. There is only one week's time left.
Yours
RITTINGER & MOTZ"
