The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-08-29
QUEEN ANNE JOURNALISM.
a Specimen from the Town Of Bos-
ton that Has Come Down to This

Time.
A four-column newspaper called the
Ner England Weekly Journal. and
dated April s, 1928. recently found its
way into the hands OF reporter. Ii
would be best described IL il were
said TO suggest a single leaf, with two
columns on each page torn from one
OF the larger-sized modern magazines.
But. notwithstanding it, immense lack
OF what the puhli hers OF a New York
Sunday paper might call space. il was
an ambitious publication, contain
ing" according 10 the announcement
OF its publishers, 1.-The Most Remark
able Occurrences, Foreign and Do
nestle" The publ hers. $ kneeland
and T. Green, we're evidently pushing
men, too, as the following announce
ment printed In italics at the head OF
the first column, viii testify:
There are measures concerning for
rendering this Paper yet more univer-
sally esteemed and useful. in which
ii hop'd the Publick will be crafty d !,
and bY which those Gentlemen who
desire to be improy'd in History, Phil
osophy, Poetry, &c, sill be greatly
advaataged.
on the precise nature of the meas
AAakN VIC .AsG tt4I al As0Elfl,
but we might have suspected that
they comprehended schemes for the
collection aud more rapid despatch of
news we're il not seen that the paper
pledged itself 70 the Improvement OF
its readers i'm history, philosophy, and
poetry. The latest dispatch from
England was dated November Is, 1877,
about six months earlier than the date
OF the paper. The news collected. t.,
refers almost exclusively to IT,. -, -
the aristocracy or tue my or navy
The domestic has appears To have
been limited 10 ia ee subjects-,he
harials and haptisms in the Town Of
| DO tton. and the entrances and clear
anees at the port. The latter appear
to have been quite numerous.
| Advertisements I'll about a half
column. They are mostly made up OF
notices OF the publication of religion,
books and the sale OF likely negro
| women and rirls. In one brief notice
however. coffee Is offered for sale at a
price per pound which wouli repre- ent
81 IA Federal currency. The following
advertisement on a literary subject il
copied here As evidence that Boston
cultare has been the fruit OF liberal
| tfAttitlAAttNn
There is NOW preparing for the
Press, and may upon suitable Enco r
agement be communicated 10 the Pub
| lick. A Miscellany OF Poems. ~ sew
eral Hands and upou several occa-
>ions: some OF which have already been
Published. and received the Approh1-
ton OF the bet Judges, with many
more very late Performances, OF equal
liz not superior Beauty, which have
never yet seen the Light: Ii there
fore any ingenious Gentlemen are al T.
posed to contribute towards the cree.
ton of Pootiei Monument FOR tie
Honor Of this Country, either hy their
generous sub cTipiiOus or Compo
IRE. they are Gc-ifed to convey them
20 MIR. Daniel llenchman. or the PHh-
Il her OF this Paper, by whom they
hall he received with CanGor ard
| ThankfulneSs. "
In this extract NAV bc discovered
the germ of culture which has sincc
grown into an over baldwin. the.
But the growth does rug seem t. have
mani e-ted itself ia great imp owe
ments in the art OF typography either
withia or without the cts 81 Boston
| t. po-raphiealiy, indeed. this quai
I rlpaF ! : dffitfs a s4a4ftst gf good work