Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1918 — First Official Newspaper. [ARTICLE]

First Official Newspaper.

The first newspaper capje into existence when written accounts of th< imperial armies pf,Rome were sent ti the generals In command in all parts of the provinces. In 15G6 the first official news sheets were published in Venice. They were written by hand and exhibited in public places, people paying the small coin of a gazetta to read them. ' The Church, averse to all diffusing of knowledge, tried' to impede this source of education, and Pope Gregor even prosecuted the editors. ' e