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...fact of independence first spread among colonial readers. By early this week the city's five other newspapers?a concentration that makes Philadelphia the publishing capital of the former colonies?had either reported the Declaration or were preparing stories on it. The Evening Post and Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet have published the entire text, and Printer Henrich Miller has translated the "Erklärung" into German for his Pennsylvanischer Staatsbote...
...articles on both sides of the independence issue. A few months later, Portsmouth Printer Daniel Fowle, self-professed champion of press freedom, was summoned before the New Hampshire House of Representatives to answer for an article in his Gazette attacking independence; his paper has not appeared since. New York Packet Publisher Samuel Loudon reports that he was warned recently by the local Committee of Safety not to distribute a pamphlet he had printed for a client who wanted to answer Paine's Common Sense "lest my personal safety be endangered." That night a group of men forced their way into...
...case of attack. Fierce Rhodesian ridgeback dogs roam the grounds, and thick steel mesh covers many windows. Some have even dug sandbagged slit trenches in their yards to provide quick cover. Almost nobody drives after sunset, and evening social life has evaporated. 'This is costing me a packet," says one farmer. "But there's no other life for me. My father farmed here before me, and no bloody blacks are going to drive...
...order that the student body may take full advantage of these admirable Crimson investigative traits, we have a suggestion. For each subscription to The Crimson, it would be a service to posterity to send the corrections column in a packet of printed stick-on labels, so that each reader could take this newly-found information and attach it to The Crimson of the day before. In this way, those of us that collect and treasure The Harvard Crimson as a memento of our college years, may build their collection into an ever more approximately accurate record of daily events...
...people on the Harvard Political Review's large donor list, only 24 expressed any further interest after receiving the packet. Of these, three eventually contributed to the Review, for a total of $52,000. As Saylor later wrote in his report on this failure, "Our rate of return was only 5 per cent on a list that cannot possibly be matched for selectivity," and those returns "appear likely to be one-time contributions rather than a continuing commitment...