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...Franklin won his fame in Phila- delphia, few but historians are prone to associate him with Boston. He was Boston-born Jan. 6, 1706, son of Josiah Franklin, a tallow chandler. Not until 1723, after he had written many an essay for his brother James's New England Courant, "first sensational newspaper in America," did Benjamin Franklin migrate to Philadelphia...
...courier, rushing packets of pictures to be put aboard trains at Grand Central Terminal, was accosted by a breathless, officious youngster. "Hey, wait! The office made a mistake?let's see your bundle. Yeh?they put two in for the Hartford Courant instead of one. Okay, I'll take the extra one back to the office. S'long...
...better in trade, took him out of school, made him assist in the family candle-shop. When Ben was twelve he was made apprentice to his older brother James, a printer; soon he was contributing anonymous articles, signed Mrs. Silence Dogood, to his brother's New England Courant. But Ben and James could not get along; at 17 Ben ran away, sailed to Manhattan, walked to Philadelphia. There he worked in the printing shop of one Keimer. He made many friends, among them Governor William Keith of Pennsylvania. At Keith's advice he went to London to finish...
...this group of literature that Publisher Macfadden was publishing when Youngman Gauvreau came to him in 1924, asked for a job. While Managing-Editor of The Hartford Courant, Newsman Gauvreau had contributed potboilers to Physical Culture. Publisher Macfadden, about to found the Graphic, hired the Courant's Gauvreau, soon made him Graphic Editor and Publisher...
...children; cheerful, robust, precocious. He dares let himself be towed across a pond by his kite. He reads Locke, Defoe and the Spectator?authors of the Age .of Reason ?besides Pilgrim's Progress and Plutarch. His publisher-brother is jailed for sensational articles in the New England Courant. Aged 17, the apprentice printer and anonymous author of the articles runs the Courant's circulation up to a dizzy 40, sorely vexing the Rev. Cotton Mather. His brother, out of jail, jealous, beats him. He quits long-nosed Boston for freer, easier Philadelphia, where his articles have excited sympathetic comment...