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A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science.
It was the first supplement of its kind when it debuted in August 1969 in the Raleigh, North Carolina News & Observer. [1] The Mini Page's first issue had a "Back to School" theme and included a mini-profile of Los Angeles Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel and a "Faces in the News" section asking readers to identify a picture of Spiro Agnew. [1]
A typical rural newspaper provided its readers with a substantial source of national and international news and political commentary, typically reprinted from metropolitan newspapers. Higher income men paid for their subscriptions; others listened to a reading of the political news at a local store or tavern.
The Children's Newspaper was a long-running newspaper published by the Amalgamated Press (later Fleetway Publications) aimed at pre-teenage children founded by Arthur Mee in 1919. It ran for 2,397 weekly issues before being merged with Look and Learn in 1965.
A weekly newspaper at first, it began daily publication in 1864 under the new name North China Daily News. Ceased publication in 1951. 1852 Java-Bode: Dutch Batavia Dutch East Indies Ceased publication in 1957. 1853 [109] Chinese serial: Chinese Victoria City: Hong Kong First Chinese-language newspaper in the crown colony. Ceased publication in ...
London newsboy Ned Parfett with news of the Titanic disaster, April 16, 1912. A newspaper hawker, newsboy or newsie is a street vendor of newspapers without a fixed newsstand. Related jobs included paperboy, delivering newspapers to subscribers, and news butcher, selling papers on trains. Adults who sold newspapers from fixed newsstands were ...
Weekly Reader was a weekly educational classroom magazine designed for children. It began in 1928 as My Weekly Reader.Editions covered curriculum themes in the younger grade levels and news-based, current events and curriculum themed-issues in older grade levels.
The first newspaper written in English was The Weekly News, published in London in 1621. Several papers followed in the 1640s and 1650s. In 1690, the first American newspaper was published by Richard Pierce and Benjamin Harris in Boston. However, it did not have permission from the government to be published and was immediately suppressed. [2]