Story & Humphreys's Pennsylvania Mercury, and universal advertiser.
Story, Enoch,-1807,publisher.
Humphreys, Daniel,1753-1812,publisher.
Philadelphia [Pa.] : printed by Story and Humphreys, in Norris's Alley, near Front-street ...,
[1775]
Title from caption.
Imprint from colophon; imprints lack dates.
Year of publication from dates of issues.
Imprint followed by notice of subscription price: "(at ten shillings per annum)" and request for "advertisements, articles, letters of intelligence."
Issue number and date at head of title; date repeated on date line.
First issue announces that this is the first newspaper using type made in the United States (cf. Evans).
Text in three columns.
Includes essays on coinage, local advertisements, news from Boston, Salem, New London and Philadelphia, shipping news, prices.
ESTC
Brigham, C.S. Amer. newspapers,
Evans,
Publication suspended in Dec. 1775 when fire destroyed the press.
Supplements accompany some issues.
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Pennsylvania Mercury, and the universal advertiser