THE FIRST NEWSPAPER.
It seems queer to think of a time when there were no newspapeis, when the news was circulated wholly by word of mouth. The first formal change in the circulation of news came with the appearance of newsletters. The earliest of these, it is stated in the "Ladies' Home Journal," is said to have been the "Acta Diurna" (Daily Happenings), issued at Rome in 691 8.C.; the latest ia claimed to have appeared nearly twenty-four centuries later in a land which, only a little more than two centuries before had been a howling wvderness—the Boston "News Letter," issued by John Campbell in 1704 at Boston, Massachusetts, several numbers of which are in the collection of the Boston Historical Society. The first newspaper printed in ink from type was called the "Gazette," and was published at Nuremburg, Bavaria, in 1457. The, fi.rtst newspaper advertisement—a reward offered for two stolen horses—was printed in the London "Imperial Intelligencer" in March, 1648.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17469, 1 June 1922, Page 4
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161THE FIRST NEWSPAPER. Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17469, 1 June 1922, Page 4
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