Daily Mail and was more populist in tone and more concise in its coverage than its rivals. The planned issue was 100,000 copies but the print run on the first day was 397,215 and additional printing facilities had to be acquired to sustain a circulation which rose to 500,000 in 1899. Lord Salisbury, 19th-century Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, dismissed the "Daily Mail" as "a newspaper produced by office boys for office boys." By 1902, at the end of the Boer Wars, the circulation was over a million, making it the largest in the world. With Harold running the business side
Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria office was abolished in 1917. The office managed orphanages, care of the invalids, the blind and the deaf, education for women and children and young boys, poor houses and hospitals, many of the institutions founded by empress Maria. Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria The Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria (Ведомство учреждений императрицы Марии) was the name of the Imperial government office of charity in Imperial Russia, and the 4th branch of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery between 1828 and 1917. It was named after empress Maria, who united her management of the Moscow Orphanage with that