Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1914 — America's Oldest Paper. [ARTICLE]

America's Oldest Paper.

The Hartford .(Conn.) Courant commemorates the one-hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of that newspaper in a special edition of October 25. The issue contained 112 pages. The Courant is the oldest newspaper in America with a record cAcontlnu—ous circulation under its preseht-natfie. Thomas Green printed the first copy 12 years before the Declaration of Independence was signed.. The newspaper printed that document as a matter of news July 15, 1776, “thanks to a speedy courier, who made, the trip from Philadelphia in only 11 days.” A record of American progress and a history of Connecticut and Hartford is taken from the Courant files for the special edition; The biographies of prominent men and widely known firms are included.