Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1914 — First One-Cent Paper. [ARTICLE]

First One-Cent Paper.

The first one-cent morning paper In America was the New York Morning Post, which was founded in 1833, with Dr. H. D. Shepard as editor and Horace Greeley as printer. Prior to that by three years an evening paper called The Cent, selling for that amount, had had a brief existence In Philadelphia. Greeley, who was born 103 years ago, started his career as. a printer in Poultney, Vt., in 1826. In 1831 he arrived in New York with 310 in his pocket, but two years later he began business on his own account as printer of the Morning Post. The following year Greeley, in partnership with Jonas Winchester, established the New Yorker, of which Greeley was editor. In 1840 Greely edited and published the Log Cabin, a campaign paper that gained the astounding circulation of 80,000. ’ ’