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ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF NEWSPAPERS

Scanned from Albuquerque Evening Citizen, Dec 18, 1906
ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF NEWSPAPERS
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TUESDAY DECEMBER 18 1906 ALBUQUERQUE EVENIXO CITIZEN PACE FIFTEEN Origin and Progress of Newspapers in General By. Mrs Ceorge F Albright COAL IB fry IYv f Jouriallum. In not a modern Inova tion A Jonrtinl was published. In China as early as the 8th renutry.

It Is called the IVkln Gazette and is Issued daily at the present time. In Kurope the periodical collection aad publication of the news of the day liesan. In tlermany In the 17th cen tury. There had been news sheets long before.

The earliest were manu scriimt papers prepared with some regularity. In Rome In Venice and other Huropean clt ie. Some 8uo of these occasional newssheets all Is sued before 1610 are preserved. In libraries In the 17th century all En ropoaa governments were represented by newspapers as they were found to be an easy means of communicating orders in council special edicts pro clamations and laws to the people.

The txindon Gazette j the first of these and is still piibithed Com ment as an accompianment of the news did not benln until about 1704 when Swift Holingbroke and others in Knsland be in political dloCiiion in various newspapers which ultimately developed into.

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