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complaints by bk ELMO SCOTT OTT WATSON I 1 1 I 1 8 14 irs c utin one of 0 I 1 I 1 I 1 M of lack of patronage hat that i mg VO AND TWENTY ZI 1 i Y ive he cannot vend SOO at an im years ago there mere took place IN in boston a history making event 1 which gets but scant ifancy it any men tion at all in our schoolbook school book histories tories yet it marked the beginning of art an institution which for or the next nest two centuries was to exert a I 1 vital influence in shaping our nation 1 for on april 24 1704 1701 john campbell postmaster of Bo boston stort issued the first number of the boston news let ter the first successful american newspaper it was only a little single sheet six and one fourth by ten rind and one halt half inches tn n size with two columns of bielis hews matter batter on each page and printed on both sides there was not a single advertisement or illustration of any kind in it the news which it contained was taken from london newspapers of more than four months past and the small local news was of slightly less ancient vintage not a very impressive beginning for american journalism was this little handbill yet from it there has grown a profession employing hundreds of thousands of workers an industry which ranks high up among all the othor other industries in the country in point of oc capital investment and annual earnings and a commodity which has become to the average american as much a necessity of his dally life as the food lie he eats cats or the clothes he wears in calling the boston newsletter news letter the first american newspaper that adjective must be somewhat qualified As a matter of fact the first newspaper issued in the united states also appeared in boston some fourteen years earlier on september 25 1690 benjamin harris an exiled newspaper publisher who had settled in dos boston as a book seller and proprietor of a coffee house brought forth a four page newspaper only three of which however bore any printing the fourth being blank which he called occurrences curren cea ces both For reIgn and his paper however was promptly suppressed by the governor of massachusetts day bay colony end the council because it contained reflections of a very high i nature and nd sundry doubtful and un certain reports accustomed as we are to the freedom of the press which has been in existence since this nation was founded it may seem strange that a newspaper could be thus summarily disposed of by the authorities but it must be remembered that these were the da days ys when human liberty as we now think of it waa vlas practically nonexistent when there was wag a system of licensing for nearly everything including printing every colonial governor to america to rule the english colonies here between betwee in the years IM and 1730 was given the right to regulate the press so tills this first newspaper venture in what Is now the united states died borning a because benjamin harris neglected to secure a license and because in this paper he made a re reference ferente to the french ang and the caquas mohawk indians which the authorities believed might cause trouble between france and england postmaster campbell Caro was more careful not to run afoul of the powers that be by walting waiting on his excellency or secretary ury for approbation for what Is collected le ie news he was able to print in a conspicuous place under of his paper published by authority ond and thus feet feel no fear of interference from the law As a matter of set oct ho he seems to have beena been a timid soil soil who ads was never much to in danger of getting into int on that ne account count for as bleyer says in his main currents in american journalism 11 edited hla his paper in a painstaking but and wa inspired manner ita n was waa scrupulously accurate even to the extent of ing out in one issue that a comma comins had been into misplaced in a preceding ing issue on another occasion he be explained that in an account of a fire at plymouth in the preceding issue whereas it Is IB said flarna flame coveting the barn it should be said occasionally he would point the moral ota ofa ot of a piece of ne levs va when for example a women woman had bad committed suicide he expressed the hope that the tha inserting of such ouch an awful providence here hera may riot not be offensive but rather a warning to all others other to watch against the wiles of our grand adversary arain again when a roan man wars punished with a severe whipping for selling tar mixed with dirt A h ox Plains that the account in here only I 1 Inser inserted tf d tabo a caveat to others of like leftist leant a ibri nori abing bobal them such brier comments wells wee wevvy lna enly editorial in the N bivs owe letter 1 1 with VI III IOUs care campbell undertook in the i I 1 1 2 1 V 1 1 V Z I 1 I 1 4 I 1 I 1 V 06 1 i 1 40 11 i 3 1 l I 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 NR wa I 1 pum 4 W i I 1 I 1 I 1 4 ill fail N I 1 i 1 I e 11 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 R 11 I 1 limited space ot of his paper tocarra to carry on the thread of occurrences abroad by reprinting in chronological order news gleaned from english newspapers dy by this method he was fit at times from nine to behind in publishing foreign tor elgi news newa ills his difficulties particularly in winter he explained in hla his clumsy style thus having in our numb given you a summary of the occurrences of europe for uve five months time viz from the middle of august to the middle of december and in our ova five last and in this a more particular account of the most remarkable occurrences of bf europe for six months and an hallstine halts hall time viz from the middle of august ti to the first of march in our numb and tn in regard wo we have not weekly and monthly Pac racquets as they i a have tn in europe and the west indies whereby to carry on the occurrences regularly we shall now return back where we te left oft off in our numb to carry on the of occurrences us as methodically as an it will admit of until vessels from great britain or from the west indies do arrive in any part of our continent when the undertaker shall give you as aa he usually did a summary and abridgment of the tha most remarkable occurrences occurrence of europe for the succeeding months the end of the be first year found this pioneer publisher somewhat discouraged with his job ile he took his rea readers ara into ills hla confidence as follows this printed newsletter news letter was undertaken to be ba published for a good to give a true account of all foreign and 0 0 currencies curren cea ces and to prevent a great many false reports of the same and was propounded to be printed for one year for a tryal viz from the alth ot of april last to the first of may next to sec ate it if the income by the he sale thereof at a moderato price would be sufficient encouragement to defran the tha necessary charge expended in the procuring and printing of the same which charge Is considerable sid erable beyond what most moat people conceive it t to bs be besides the trouble and fatigue attending it all which would be too long here to enumerate yet for some satisfaction we will venture to set down some of the charges and trouble that arise thereby leave other some to rat rational lonal persons to conceive of 1 the undertaker has alveral of the several prints from england rent eert lm hm in several vessels that being time dfwar of war might have one sett it if the rest should be taken which are am ordered to come by all vessels coming to oui continent where the poet foat la 19 settled almost five hundred miles fr from 0 in E to W from N hampshire to 2 correspondents settled in several ports porte sc A places our shipping goes to for sending Intelli intelligence genre 1 3 waiting on masters merchants and others when ship vessels arrive to have from them what intelligence they can 4 waiting on oil ills his excella excellency ncy or secretary for approbation of what la Is collected 5 paper printing c and when so done dona as aa we said before we set the half sheet at a more moderate price than it was set at in exeter in england where they began to print much about the same I 1 time that we began here he here e it was set at ad and there it was atad at ad and that sterling money when sent out to uny house in town in c they were to have twenty shillings per par annum and it was waa propounded here to be sent out for twelve shillings per annum thol tho the he paper and lalor labor A other charges here Is four times at least dearer than it Is at exeter and tho it was proposed at alt such moderate kates oteis for both town country having had 11 II months experience of the income ft trouble charge in procuring printing it the undertaker Is money lioney out of pocket hiss haa not to defray the ne necessary ceary charge and unless some ome better encouragement be given tor for the future it must drops drop therefore several being desirous it should not drop but be ba continued we thought fit to insert this ad veil icamen icemen t that either the price for the halt half sheet a week and the quarterly ad aad yearly customers roust beang dented or elsewhere els else thare ethere must be more of them sold and wore niora quarterly yearly customers than vr was s last year f V adi I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 concerning I 1 this first edli editors ors trouble lest bl eyel continues as follows hr f I 1 1 s 1 1 cmpbell struggled along alone anal ld n ii peals peala for support support and twice during 9 1701 receiving grant from the government finally in maralt 1709 published the th paver paper continuously for 14 I 1 I 1 pres slon some bome he be sells upwards of of a thousand allou sand obviously circulation to show bow tor for sly with sc BO I 1 small a fifteen biars yeara of scrugg struggle Is he roust have carried on the publication more out of a sense of 0 duty to the community than from any hope ot of profit I 1 in 1719 carabell lost ills his jot as postmaster but re refused to 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