The paper offered copies free following days without sunshine in St. Petersburg.

From 1910 until the paper folded in 1986, the Evening Independent made good on its offer 296 times.

The Evening Independent was acquired by the Times in 1962, when its previous owner, the Thomson newspaper chain, threatened to close it down.

[2] Roy Thomson had originally bought the Independent so he would have a place to moor his yacht.

Every issue of the Evening Independent, along with the Times, is available for viewing on Google News Archive.