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One hundred years ago last week a confident, 31-year-old, side-whiskered New England printer named Arunah Shepherdson Abell breezed into Baltimore to start a daily newspaper which he called The Sun. Printer Abell's sheet differed from its six established daily competitors in policy- printing news rather...
Arunah Abell and his partners, two other printers named Azariah Simmons and William M. Swain, had already founded the
1? Philadelphia Public Ledger. They got their idea from Benjamin Day's New York Sun, which had been pleasing Manhattan's masses and enriching its proprietor at a penny a copy since 1833. Sledding hard in Philadelphia, Partners Simmons and Swain left it to Partner Abell to see...
Both Publisher Abell and the city in which he set up shop were bustling and full of fight when Vol. 1 No. 1 of the Sun came out. Baltimore skippers, some of them privateersmen in the War of 1812, were trading in & out of Canton, Bombay, Lisbon, Valparaiso. Overland west...
On nautical Gay Street, where the Sun soon moved from its first quarters. Publisher Abell looked out on a teeming and sometimes boisterous communal life. Every night, watchmen plied their staves so briskly on the skulls of yowling Baltimore drunks that a rich budget of police court news was always...