The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-04-09

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In the adasss- ON ION Time News
papers and Their Editorss sivsn. by
Caleb A. Wall In the Society Of An
EQUITY building there was q muoia
more detailed account Of tho oldsss..
newspspers printed In this country than
there wasAspaos 70 'print iniths ssBsrt
made Of the meeting. In the account Of
newspapers started In the different
states. or colonies. IL was stated that
the Philadelphia American Weekly
Mercury, started Dec. 49, 1717, the first
newspaper printed in Pennsylvania. was
printed and published by Andrew Brad
ford till his death. Nov. %, l742, and
afterward continued by his widow un-
til l746, and soon after discontinued.
This Andrew Bradford was son of
William Bradford, the first printer in
Pennsylvania and in New York, and it
was for Andrew Bradford that Benja-
min Franklin first worked as printer
when he left his brother James in Bos-
ton and went to Philadelphia in 1913,
at the age of 16, he and his brother
having had a falling out. After work
ing a short time for Andrew Bradford,
Franklin started printing Office ON his
own account in Philadelphia with the
idea Of starting also another newspaper,
pearance of another newspaper there.
Dec. "a, 172s, by Samuel Keimer, called
The Universal Instructor In All Arts
and Sciences, and Pennsylvania Gazette.
Franklin, being greatly disappointed.
used his utmost efforts to bring the pa
per into contempt, having such effect
that after il had been published nine
months less than 100 subscribers had
been obtained for it. and Franklin man.
aged to buy it out for a small consider
alton. He expunged the first part of the
title, retaining the last part, the Penn
sylvania Gazette, and continued it with
this name with success. Until Frank
Inns appointment as postmaster of Phil
adelphia in 1740, however, Bradford's
Mercury had the largest circulation, but
after that Franklin's paper had the lead
in circulation and influence, and Brad
ford's was soon after discontinued. So
we have here practical evidence Of
Franklin's success of a newspaper bust
ness competitor.
In 1748 Franklin took in David Hall
as partner, who succeeded to the sole
management of the paper in 1853, when
Franklin was appointed deputy post
master general for the colonies. After
Halls death in 1772 the paper passed
into the hands of Andrew Brown, who
changed the name to Philadelphia Ga
zette, his son and Samuel Rolf sue
ceeding in the paper.
After some other changes in propri-
etorship and management this old pa
| per, started by Benjamin Franklin in
1879, ceased to exist in 1845, when it
was merged in the Philadelphia North
American after life Of lie years This
Pennsylvania Gazette afterward, in
l772, named the Philadelphia Gazette,
is the paper containing the Declaration
| of independence, which was intercepted
on its way from Philadelphia to Boston,
July IA, 1776, from which Isaiah Thorn
Il ds, tu6 IOuuu0I VI tuO lu0bSoOn
| Spy, read that immortal document to
his fellow citizens in Worcester. from
| the porch of the Old South church, the
first time it had been read or proclaimed
on Massachusetts or New England soil.
1t was very natural that Isaiah Thorn
as, who was then postmaster Of Worces-
| ter by appointment of Benjamin Frank
| IA. m ,~o.S,,,a .Sav xaparoI ~ tho TTpifa1
| Colonies, should read that document
from paper which had been SO long
| identified with the name of his distin-
guished friend and fellow printer, Ben
jamin Franklin.
To show that the citizens of Worces-
ter appreciated the patriotic act OF
Isaiah Thomas in being the first to read
the Declaration of Independence on
Massachusetts soil, at the celebration
of the Fourth of July in Worcester in
1880, when Rejoice Newton presided,
with Colonel Isaac Davis and Otis Cor
bett as vice presidents, the Grafton was
by Hon. Peter c. Bacon, and addresses
were made by Governor Lincoln and
John Davis, and the following toast,
proposed by Isaac Goodwin, was drunk
with signal enthusiasm, "Our venera-
BILE townsman, Isaiah Thomas, Esq,
who first promulgated the Declaration
of Independence to the inhabitants OF
this vicinity, from the church and the
press. - s.,saa.-- se.s..st.l.f d (. ~
In the eulogy on Isaiah Thomas de-
livered after his death the following
year by Isaac Goodwin, special refer
ence was made to this act Of Isaiah
Thomas by his eulogist. = Worcester
Spy.
A Night In . Chicago Police Station.
Clark draws from an inside pocket
roll Of old newspapers and, hands me