The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-07
TODAY in HISTORY
MONDAY. NOVEMBER z. 1910.
The Oldest Daily Newspapcr.

The London Gazette is the oldest daily
| newspaper in the world. II was hrst pub
| llshed on November Z. 1865, in the reign
OF Charles III. 4 journal out Of which
| II grew was published ''by authority In
| Cromwelrs time, but the title Gazette
| dates from 1855,
The Gazette was first published All OK
| ford. as the court was In residence there
during the plague, but when tho plague
abated il WAS brought 10 London and
has ever since been published regularly.
with supplementary issues now and then,
II required, These have been published
at all times OF the day and night.
Although the Gazette is published by
private parties. it is the property OF the
government. and yields a profit OF about
800, 900 a year.
AS the paper varies in size from one
page TO ioD pages. according to the
amount OF matter 10 be published, the
publishers have to employ a large stafT,
and ii is a matter Of pride that although
there arc one thousand employees, no Of
fetal secret sent to the Gazette for pub
lIcation has ever leaked out prcmaturely.
The Gazette is the only news journal
TO which cabinet ministers are frequent
contributors, and 10 which tho monarch
now and then sends paragraphs author
'zcd with his own Initials. Important
state announcements are sent TO the Ca
zHttc by the secretaries Of state concerned
and are not published until they have
seen the proofs, The Gazette is probs bly,
the only paper which returns the original
copy 10 its authors along with the proof.
and OF cabne, ministers
The Gazette has many pccularitics. 1t
Is the only paper whose advertisements
are controlled by acts OF parliament. in
which numerous people arc compelled by
law TO advertise and I'm which other ad-
NertiSements arc absolutely prohibited. II
rs the only paper whose statements may
he accepted as conclusive evidence in
court OF law.
The Gazette has chronicled Official his
tory Tor nearly 80 years. and the Lord
record OF Queen Victora's
diamond Jubilee had whole issue to IT.
self, In 1siT the railway wear" so many
parliamentary notices had TO be pub
lshed one week that the Gazette for the
week totaIcd about 5000 pages.
AS recently as the Crimeau war tho
Gazette was the first to publish an i'm
portsnt item of war ncws-the victory of
the Alma-and at one time the London
newspapers had TO wait for the publica-
ton OF the Gazette in order TO secure
such news OF public Importance as lists
OF casualtos. which the war Office I'm
these days sends direct to Fleet street.
. The Gazette's news Is now always
stolen by other newspapers. which re
ceive copies of II overnight. and IL is the
only newspaper which does not object 10
such procedure.
who must-such as officials and LAWYERS
TO those may be added many persons
VINO secure official promotion Of some
kind OF which they wish 10 keep an or
~ o''' P'S''pIS -pd DhluplS-
November Z, 1871. is the date OF the |
oattle Of Tippecanoe; II is the date in |
1897 that Lovejoy was assassinated at |
Alton. and on which Lewis and Clark
n 1900, reached the Pacific coast, To
lay is the birthday OF Jared Eliot the |
1rst IN America TO advance the science !
" metalursy 16S5); Fritz Reuter-. tho |
German novelist US10), and Andrew u |
" hite. American educator and novelist |
ISL The date Of the death Of Sir
1890; JEAN Andre Deluc. geolocist and
,aturiil philosopher Gs17), and Karl Cott-
leb ReSslEer, German COMPOSER TShel