Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-12-27
paiIp iiennebet Journal.
Augusta, Friday Morning, Dec. 81, 1873
The Kennebec journal.

and handsome dress to-day. the type upor
which it is printed having been procured from
that reliable, sound, and well established in
stitution, the Boston Type Foundry, John X
Rogers & Co, with whom the Kennebec Jour
nal has had large and pleasant business rela
tons many years.
Nine wears ago last October, we enlarged
the Weekly kennebec Journal. and gave il Il
new dress. The type then purchased ha'
served u well until the present time. The
following January we started the Daily
kennebec Journal. which ha> now been
in existence nine years. and bids
fair by Is steadily increasing circulation
and advertising patronage to become as per
mancn,y established as i, the beautiful river
near whose bank, il is located.
The first issue of the Kenncbec Journal
was on saturday. January 5. 1895. almost
tf1v-tour years ago. Its publishers were
Russell Eaton and Luther Severance. the
first of whom is still an active and one of the
most highly respected citizens of Augusta
while the latter died in thi, city, Jan
nary %. 1855 after his return from
the Sandwich Islands. where he honor
ably served three years as United States
Commissioner, At his death the Legislature.
which was in session passed appropriate res
outions, and las a testimonial of their re-
gard for his memory as a man of integrity
and honor and a faithful public officer" at
IL l. al
and Council the city council Of Augusta and
n large concour-e of citizens.
The following from an editorial published
in the columns of this paper niue years
ago CHANGING backward at the early days of
the Kcnnebec Journal we reproduce as an in
tcrcsting reminder of what this paper and
journalism were more than fifty years ago.
before railroads or the telegraph or fast print
ing presses were known:
''The paper was about one-third the present
size of the Journal--tcrms two dollars per
annum-and the stock and color not much
better than those of common wrapping paper.
The leading editorial of the first number was
upon President Monroc's Message to Con
grcss but the Message itself did not appear
There was news from Europe. and Domestic
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the Journal was dated .Ianrarv sth but the lat
est news from the Greeks and Turks. who
were then nj war. was only up to Oct. 18th.
No wondr the battle of New Orleans was
fought after the declaration of Peace in 1915,
when in 1925 intelligence from Europe three
months old could pass for news in the news
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