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The first newspaper to be published west of the Mississippi was the Missouri Gazette. Its starting issue was published on July 12, 1808, by Joseph Charless, an Irish printer. Swayed by Meriweather Lewis to leave his home in Kentucky and start a new paper for the Missouri Territory , Charless was identified by the paper's masthead as "Printer to ...
In 1719, the Boston Gazette was established in Boston and the first newspaper in Philadelphia, The American Weekly Mercury, was founded by Andrew Bradford. In 1736, the first newspaper in to emerge in Virginia was the Virginia Gazette, [a] founded by William Rind in Virginia. Rind was soon appointed public printer.
The Gazette of the United States was an early American newspaper, first issued semiweekly in New York on April 15, 1789, but moving the next year to Philadelphia when the nation's capital moved there the next year. [1] It was friendly to the Federalist Party. Its founder, John Fenno, intended it to unify the country under its new government.
First newspaper in present-day Indonesia, ceased publication in 1746. 1806 [101] The Prince of Wales Island Gazette: English Penang: British Malaya: First newspaper in Southeast Asia; [101] last issue rolled off the press on 7 July 1827; weekly edition survived until January 1830. 1811 [102] Del Superior Govierno: Spanish Manila: Spanish East ...
Michigan Journal (1854-1868) Detroit "the first German newspaper in Detroit, that was founded in 1854 by two brothers: August and Conrad Marxhausen." [ 261 ] The Michigan Tradesman , Petoskey [ citation needed ]
James Franklin (February 4, 1697 in Boston – February 4, 1735 in Newport, Rhode Island) was an early American printer, publisher and author of newspapers and almanacs in the American colonies. Franklin published the New England Courant, one of the oldest and the first truly independent American newspapers, and the short lived Rhode Island ...
The gazette also published advertisements for runaway slaves and indentured servants. [11] Among other firsts by The Pennsylvania Gazette, the newspaper was the first to publish the political cartoon Join, or Die, authored by Franklin. [12] The cartoon resurfaced later in the 18th century as a symbol in support of the American Revolution.
It was printed by American Richard Pierce of Boston, and it was edited by Benjamin Harris, who was a refugee from England who had unsuccessfully tried to establish a free press there. The newspaper consisted of four pages 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 by 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (19 by 29 cm), with two columns, with the last page left blank, allowing one to ...