On this day, Amrita Bazar Patrika, a newspaper published from Calcutta, carried the following advertisement:

Wanted 10,000 Subscribers.

EVERY PARENT should subscribe for the “STUDENTS FRIENDS” — an illustrated Monthly Journal of education for Students throughout the English-speaking World (with) Short Stories and Articles by the best writers.

This is the only Journal in India approved by the Directors of Public Instruction in Bengal and Bombay for all high English Schools and Educational Officers.

Mrs Annie Basant (sic) says: “(It) is a very well-
edited little Magazine.”

Annual subscription (including postage) for India and Burma — ONE RUPEE ONLY Published Regularly From April 1905.

Apply to:—

T.S. Subramania & Co.,

2, Armenian Street, Madras.

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