The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-13
50 AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS
 .ARE OVER A CENTURY OLD.

According to figures compiled from the best available sources for this department, there are exactly half Q hundred daily newspapers Tn the United States and Canada that nave passed the century mark in their ex- istence. Today the newspapers of the continent will extend feicitations Ito the venerable St. Louis Republic, the pioneer newspaper west of the Mis- sissippi, on the occasion of its 1O4th birthday. The Republic issued it's first number on the thirteenth of July. 1908, although the daily edition was not launched until 1885. The Republics frisky young morning con- tefnpbrary,H the Globe-Democrat,c cele- brates it's sixtieth anniversary this year.
 Of the half hundred centenarians among North American newspapers, only three are in Canada. The Quebec Chronicle, founded in 1764, is the oldest Dominion daily now in existence. The Montreal Gazette was established fourteen years later, and the Montreal Herald celebrated it's centennial last year. The Arcadian Recorder, of Halifax, will enter the century-oTd ranks next year. The only daily newspaper in the. West Indies that. can boast a life of over a hundred years is the Chronicle and Gazette, published at St. George, Grenada, which was launched in 1874.
 Connecticut has four daily news papers over century o1d-the
 Bridgeport Farmer, founded iu 179O; the Hartford Courant, in 1764; the
 NorwiEns Bulletin, in 1796, and the
 New Hayen Journal and Courier, In
 1766. Massa chusetts daily newspaper
 centenarians are the Pittsfieid Eagle
 dating from 17S9; the Haverhill
 Gazette. 1798; and the New Bedford Mercury 1907. Maine adds two to the list-the Portland Eastern Argus, 1903, and the Advertiser, now the Ex-
 press and Advertiser, 1785. New Hampshire's contribution to the list is the Portsmouth Chronicle and i Gazette, 1756, and the Keene Senti-
 nel, 1799; Vermont adds to the rec
 ord the Rutland Herald, founded in | 1794. New York has five venerable 1 daily papers in the New York Com mercial, 1795; the New York @Globe and Commercial Advertiser, 1797; the New York Evening Post, 1901; the
 Utica Herald and Dispatch. 17ss, and | the Hudson Gazette and Register, 1785. The Troy Northern Budget; l founded in t1797, is among the oldest 1 of Sunday papers. Pennsylvania leads all the States in the number of
 joHrnalistic centenarians, including 17T1; the Pittsburgh Gazette Times, 17S6; the Carlisle Herald, 1900; the
 Chambersburg Franklin Repository. 1790; the Doylestown Intelligencer, 1904; the Lancaster Intelligencer, l1794;, the Norristown Herald, 179s; I the Norristown Register, 1902; the l Washington Reporter, 1908; the Will | Transport. Gazette and Bulletin. 1901,
 and the New York Gazette, .17S5. 1 New Jerseys list includes the Eliza
 beth Journal, 177S; the Newark Star,
 1796; the New Brunswick Times, 1792, and the Trenton State Gazette, 1792. The Cincinnati Commercial
 Tribune, founded in 1794, is Ohio's
 oldest daily paper, other venerable sheets including the Marietta Regis ter-Leader, 1901, afd the Columbus
 State Journal, 1911. Southern news 1 papers that have passed the century mark are the Baltimore American,
 I773; the Alexandria, Va, Gazehe. 17S4; the Lynchburg, Va, News, 1909. the Charleston, S. C., News and Courier, 1732, and the Augusta, Ga,
 Chronicle, 1785. West of Cincinnati, | the oldest newspaper now published
 is the Vincennes, Ind, Sun, dating | from 1894.