Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15
and there were companies for water


transportation
MANY THOUSAND MILLION POUNDS
were sunk IN these bubble companies and
kite-hylng speeulations, even elergymen
and women being involved. The excite
ment OF the times is shown by the ap-
pearance of the Gazette. u was ex-
banded until each number made large
volume, crammed with advertisements
of companies formed and being formed,
and notices of shares, etc. Extending
back almost 10 the time of Cromwell,
these papers possess a peculiar interest.
Besides this set the library contains
complete set of the London Times daily
from 1876 up TO date.
There is file of the London Morning
Chronicle from 1914 to 1856, and the file
of the London Globe from 1888 to date.
There is a full set Of the important
literary and political weeklies from their
commencement, including the Atha-
n@um, the Academy, the Examiner, the
Spectator, the Literary Gazette, the
Public Opinion, the Court Journal, the
Economist, etc.
There is also complete file of the
Paris Moniteur from its beginning, in
1889, to the time of the last French re-
public, 1870, when it was merged into
the Journal Officiel The set of the Revue
deux Mondes is complete from 1928 to the
present time This is valued highly, as
the journal is regarded as one OF the most
important literary and critical journals
ever published.
There multitude Of reviews and mag
azines. American, English and CONT
mental, and the recent additions in peri
odical literature, continually supple
mented, as they win be, by filing of
gaps in series, readers will soan find in
our national collection sets of nearly
every periodical whice has made for itself
name in literature, science or art.
EARLY AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS.
In the collection are some rare early
American newspapers. The library has
partial set of Benjamin Franklin s pa
per, the Pennsylvania Gazette, from
1874 to 1884, and there is file of the
Pennsylvania Evening Post from IVA to
1884, in one number of which may be
found the first publication of the Dec
laFation of independence, July 4
1776. A file of the Pennsylvania
Journal runs from I775 to 1873;
and the Porcup1ne Gazette, VIM. Cob
belts paper, from 1897 to 1899; the
Pennsylvania Ledger, Mercury and
Chronicle, from 1867 to 1886 There is
also the Pennsylvania Packet, the first
daily paper published in the United
States, which has been continued under
other names for more than century,
and is now the North American Review.
These are all Philadelphia papers.
Among New York s early journals is a
complete set of the Evening Post from
the first issue in 1901 to the present date
and the Gazette of the United States, the
first paper to publish the debates of con-
orpSo which rvac Sfoptp6 1870
Then there are the New York Gazette.
from 1897 to 1921; the New York Journal
from III to 1778, and a very curious file
of Rivington S Loyal Gazette, a British
tory paper published during the hot times
of the revolution, and running under va
rious aliases from 1873 to 1888. There is
also full set of the earliest Price
Current, !" shipping and commercial list,
from 1916 to 1888.
From Boston there are multitude of
periodicals of the revolutionary period
and earlier, though incomplete, as is
usually the case in files of these early
journals. Among them are the Massa-
chusetts Gazette, the Boston News Let
ter, the Boston Gazette and the indie
pendent Chronicle.
Baltimore is well represented in the
collection. There is the Maryland Jour
IAdl tllS DdIblulOE6 0dZObC0, oI=SdtIISI
days; and later the Baltimore Sun, Clip
per, American, Patriot, etc.
SOUTHERN NEWSPAPERS.
Nor have the Southern states been
neglected in making up this valuable col
lection. Shortly after the war full set
of the Charleston Daily Courier from
1903, the first issue, and covering
the entire. period since under the
name of News and Courier, was
purchased for the library Other
Southern papers preserved are the
Savannah Republican from 1907 to its
merging into the News within the last ten
years; the Nashville Banner, Dispatch
and American from 1928 to date; the
Little Rock ARK Gazette from the adj
mission of the state in 1919 to date; and
a reasonably full file of the various Rich
mond, Va, papers from 1908, covering
the interesting period of the civil war -