Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wilderness that lies beyond the Colonies? One of the relatively few men who know the details is Naturalist William Bartram, 37. For the past three years he has been traveling through wild country from the Carolinas to West Florida. The son of John Bartram, the famous Philadelphia botanist, William recently passed through Fort Charlotte, South Carolina, and showed a TIME correspondent some travel journals that he has been keeping...
Night had not yet descended over Philadelphia's State House when Printer Benjamin Towne's Pennsylvania Evening Post came streaming off the press with a terse announcement of the action: "This day the CONTINENTAL CONGRESS declared the UNITED COLONIES FREE and INDEPENDENT STATES." Thus was the 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...
Printers do, however, make their points through selective publication of material. Thus the Philadelphia papers have been printing both attacks on and defenses of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, but defenders usually have the last word. Besides, the Boston Gazette and the Massachusetts Spy have been so filled with reports critical of Britain that readers can hardly mistake the publishers' views...
...opinion may be attributed largely to an anonymous 47-page pamphlet entitled Common Sense. "The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth," the author cried out in support of independence; nor indeed has the sun ever shined on a political pamphlet so widely read. Originally published in Philadelphia last January, it has been reprinted, pirated and repirated. Perhaps as many as 100,000 copies have been bought and passed from hand to hand...
...agreement by which he left her house (she is reported to have said that they never consummated the marriage, but his only comment is, "It is nobody's business but my own"). Thus cheered on his way, he begged a letter of introduction from Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia, then in London, and boarded a packet for the New World...