Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-07-27
THURSDAY. JULY 81. 1922.
@TmE MARYLAND GAZETTE"


Today's issue OF the Weekly
Advertiser will be the last that
will be published under that
name. Beginning with the issue
of August 3, 1929, the name of
that newspaper will be changed
TO the Maryland Gazette, which
we believe to be a decided inn
provement and in which belief we
are confident the readers OF that
weekly publication will concur.
This change is made possible
at this time through an agree
ment entered into with the pub
Usher of The Evening Capital
who is the owner of the Mary
land Gazette" name and good
will. Except for this change in
name, the operation OF the weekly
will be unaffected and its owner
ship, management and policies
will be the same.
We feel that we are partic
ularly fortunate in helping
to bring to the front again
the Maryland Gazette, for it
was the first newspaper to be
published in Maryland and the
sixth to be published in the
American Provinces, long before
the Revolutionary period. We
are glad 10 have the opportunity
TO aid in re-establishing it as an
active virilc force in the COM
munity which it served. with
varying fortune. for nearly two
hundred years.
Founded in 1873 by William
Parks. the history of the Mary
land Gazette has been such as TO
cause every Anne Arundel coun-
tan 60 have pardonable pride in
its long years of public service.
From 11l5 10 1899 it was publish
ed bv Jonas Green and his de
scendants, and the last publisher
of the paper was the late Captain
Philin l.. Porter. 1t was sold in
1910 by Captain Porter to
Messrs, William NJ. Abbott and
w. Meade Holiday. and its
name then associated with the
Evening Capital, with which
paper it has been merged ever
since.
Now, however. in order to best
perpctuate the Maryland Gazette
and to preserve its nearly two
CENTURIES of honorable service, it
has been decided that this end
MAY best be accomplished by pro-
wiling for it an independent ca
reer rather than subordinate
one. and this will be made an &C
tuality through the change in
name which will go into effect
next week, when the Gazette will
again perform its mission in the
weekly field mission to which
is pledged the best endeavor of the
publisher in preserving1the ideals
and traditions OF the past, and at
the same time keeping in step
with the onward march of pro-
gressiveness.
In succeeding the Weekly Ad-
vertiser, the Gazette will be TAX
ing over a newspaper. that also
has earned a meritoriouS record
during more than a hundred years
of service. The Weekly Adver-
tiser was the result of merger
effected few years ago with the
Maryland Republican. established
in 1909. and the Anne Arundel
Advertiser, established in 1870.
The late Elihu s. Riley, in his
admirable history of Annapolis
entitled '"rhc Ancient City" UNI
der the caption THE First News
paper in Maryland" has the fol-
lowing to say about the Maryland
Gazette:
I'm August, lt2S. William
Parks, printer IL the province OF
Maryland. made the first venture
in Maryland journalism. He be-
gan at Annapolis The MARYLAND
Gazette 1t was printed on a |
sheet little larger than fools.
cap; had two columns to the
page, and taur pages to an issue.