New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-11-21

RosroS NEWSPAPERS IN 0LDEN TINES
writer in the Cincinnati Gazette, who says that
he published a paper in Boston, in 1926,
a document, prepared then, giving the CIR
culation of all the papers printed in this city
We select that of the leading ones Dailes--Ad-
yertiser, $50; Courier, $40; Chronicle and
Patriot, $50; American Statesman. 400 Iri-
weekly-Boston Courier, 1eS. Semi week.-Mrs.
Columbian Sentinel 1850: Chronicle and Pat
riot, 2640; New England Palladium, 2500;
Boston Commercial Gazette, 1854; American
Statesman, $50; Boston Courier, 2i0; Boston
Repertory, 432; American Traveller, 400.
Notwithstanding Gazette, 1920; New England
Galaxy, $3.50; Masonic Mirror, 1880
Mr.. Buckingham, in his Specimens of News
paper Literature" published in two vols 1850,
states that the first attempt to set up newspa-
per in North America was made in Boston,
September %, 1890; only one copy is known to
be in existence, which is in the State paper
Office in London 1t was a quarto, three pages
of print, one blank 1t was printed by Richard
Pierce, and the fifth person who carried on the
printing business in Boston.
The first newspaper established in North Amer
lea was the Boston News Letter, commenced
April "a, 17O4. 1t was half sheet of paper,
IL inches by 8, two columns on page. B.
Green was the printer.
The second was the Boston Gazette, Dec. y,
1719.
The third was the New England Courant,
Aug. IL, 1921.
The fourth was the New England Weekly
Journal March 20, 1927.
The fifth was the Weekly Rehearsal, Sept %,
1871, changed to the Boston Evening Post in
Aug. 1875.
The sixth was the Boston Weekly Post Boy,
Oct 1884
The seventh was the Independent Advertiser,
Jan 4, 1748.
The eighth was the Boston Gazette, JAN 8,
1853.
The ninth was the Boston Gazette and Country
journal, April Z, 1855.
The tenth was the Boston Weekly Advertiser,
Aug %, 1857
The eleventh was the Boston Chronicle, Dec.
81, 1857. These were all the papers printed in
Boston to the date of the Chronicle.
The printer in those days was man of SO all
work. If negro or a horse was up for sale,
the printer was the seller. The advertisements
IN these old papers are curiosites in their line.
What would the enlightened readers of the
Commonwealth newspaper do or say to its prin-
ter should such notices be found in its ADVERT
sing columns as the following, which appeared
IN the Boston Evening Post, printed by Thomas
Fleet, in 1741:
TUv0 BE SOLD BY THE PRINTER OF THIS PAPER
Il the very best NEGRO WOMAN in this town. who has
had the small pox and the measles is as hearty
horse, as brisk as bird, and will work like beaver
YuN0 BE SOLD BY THE PRINTER OF THIS PAPER
La NEGRO Man, about thirty years old, who can do
both town and country very we'll but will suit
the country best where they have many
as we have in Boston. He has worked the printing
business fifteen sixteen years eau handle ax, saS
spade hoe or other instrument of husbandry we'll
most men, and values himself and is valued by others
for his skill in cookery
Think of colored slave in Boston in 174l,
printer for fifteen years, fond of visiting dram
shops, and valued for his skill as o cook [Bos-
ton Transcript.