I brought him a tear sheet of a story in the New York Post about ligers, and he studied the accompanying photograph for days, even took it to school to show around.
A sheet (report) from Standard & Poor's Stock Reports The reports provide information on over 4000 corporations Each report details a corporation's financial data and provides data on the company's fundamental business and its future outlook These reports are often torn out of the books by brokers and mailed to their clients--hence, the origination of the term
A page cut or torn from a periodical and used chiefly to provide evidence to an advertiser of the publication of an advertisement
Advertisements or articles torn from the pages of a magazine and used as proof by the publisher or the advertising agency that a particular ad or article appeared in a particular issue