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Last week, after a mere 256 years of suspended animation, the name, of the first paper had life again. Publick Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick, got safely past Vol. I, No. 2. Under its new management, it saw no need to change its aims with the times: it would continue to expose any "malicious Raiser of a False Report," would work "towards the Curing, or at least the Charming of that Spirit of Lying, which prevails amongst...
Founding. On Aug. 5, 1737, the first edition of the weekly Gazette "containing the freshest advices, both Foreign and Domestick," was printed by William Parkes whose daughter Eleanor later became the mother-in-law of Statesman Patrick Henry. Mr. Parkes described himself as a "Printer, by whom subscriptions are taken . . . at 15 shillings per Ann. And Book Binding is done reasonably, in the best manner." The issues, 7½ in. wide by 12½ in. long, contained but four pages (one sheet folded like letter paper), with two columns on each page...
...first newspaper ever printed in this country met the same fate dealt the first gesture towards press censorship and the first attempt to set up a commercial printing shop: "Publick Occurrances both Foreign and Domestick," appeared on September 26, 1690, and was immediately forbidden from the Colonies. The Governor and council gave expression to "high resentment and disallowance" to this paper printed by Richard Pierce for Benjamin Harris of Boston, and forbade anyone "for the future to set forth anything in print without license first obtained...
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