Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-01-31
And yet he really fails to see
more faults on his side than the other.
VI WY such as he should always be
The butt of his city brother.

or why such as he should always be
Inc Quit OF his city brother.
Inc cat Is sleeping on the rug
Inc Kerosene lamp trimming;
Coio grey ashes cover the hearth
An sleep the scrbe's sight is dimming
ne hears voice from up the stairs
,.G And also the baby screaming)
come 70 bed, you old sleepy head"
ANA soon after he is dreaming
Mr.. E. Fl. Ellwell of the Portland Tran
script, was introduced, and delivered a yery
aoie and deeply interesting essay, which was
carefully followed by the audience. We give
brief abstract:
Mr.. Elwelrs Essay.
MI Eiweifs subject was The Newspaper
fress at Home" very timely one consider
ing that this is the one-hundredth anniyersarv
OF the introduction of the press into Maine. 4
sketch was given of the newspaper press in
Europe, tracing it down to the appearance of
the flrst newspaper in North America. the
fublic Occurrences, the first and only num-
per OF which was published in Boston in
1880 Benjamin Harris was the publisher,
and after the first number had been issued il
was suppressed. 1t was the tenth newspaper
! IN the world.
sketch OF the newspapers of America
down to the appearance of the Falmouth
{ 80 AhuN OEtldUu) IN $50
was entered into
| Fourteen years passed before another At
tempt was made to establish a newspaper in
America. In l704 the News Letter was es.
taollshed IN Boston by John Campbell Only
two newspapers had been added in Europe up
to this time. The News Letter was thus far
the thirteenth newspaper in the world. Then
followed the Philadelphia Mercury in l7l9,
the New York Gazette in 1925, the Annap-
| Oils Gazette in 1927 The Charleston
Gazette in 1871. the Williamsburg IVA. J
Gazette in 1876. Fortv-nine newspapers
were established in the colonies from l748 to
1888. From 1890 to 1888, sixty-seven news
papers had been published on the continent,
of which only forty-three were in existence in
| 1888, when the independence of the United
States was acknowledged by George the
Third.
The growth of the press in New England
was briefly reviewed, following which the ad-
vance of newspapers in Maine was TAX
en- up. An account was given of
the difficulties met with by Benjamin
Titcomb and Thomas Wait the pub
lishers' of the first newspaper in Maine,
at Falmouth.
! Mr. Titcomb, with his own hands, stunck
off on the first day Of January, 1885, the first
sheet ever printed in Maine. The partner
ship between Messrs Titcomb and Wait wac
moi of lono confluence and in 100 NJ,
/ Iltcomb set up another paper in opposition
to Wait, called the Gazette of Maine. The
two papers continued in opposition until 1896
when John Nelson Baker purchased both
establishments. and issued one paper semi
weekly called the Eastern Herald and
Gazette of Maine. In 1896 there
were three newspapers in Maine and
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