Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1920 — America’s Firs Newspaper. [ARTICLE]

America’s Firs Newspaper.

The first real newspaper, continu ously printed, in America was the Bos ton News Letter, of which the Initial number was published 215 years ago. A single number Publick Occurrences. Foreign and Do mestick. had been printed a little more than thirteen years before; but, like many of its successors. Its first number was ribo tth last John Campbell was the entire staff of the News Letter, from managing editor to steady at about 300 copies weekly.